Kent Spitfires v Hampshire Hawks

Kent seem likely to field an unchanged team for a fourth successive game in tonight's Twenty20 Cup re-match with Hampshire Hawks starting in Canterbury at 5.30pm.

After Kent's 44-run drubbing at the Rose Bowl on Saturday Kent's director of cricket Graham Ford admitted that fast bowler Amjad Khan appears unlikely to feature in the southern division qualifiers.

That leaves Robbie Joseph as the only player likely of forcing his way into the first choice Spitfires side.

Khan, 27, had hoped to play in this year's cup event after seemingly finishing his comeback championship appearance at The Rose Bowl a fortnight ago unscathed.

However, the Danish-born player has since picked up stomach muscle and hamstring niggles and now looks set to sit out Kent's Southern Division qualifiers.

Khan's latest setback means skipper Rob Key can only call on Joseph should any of his first-choice seamers pick up an injury but, after five years on the staff, Joseph has yet to make his Twenty20 debut.

Though blessed with natural pace, the Antigua-born bowler has a tendency to err with wides and no balls, bad habits that tend to be heavily punished in Twenty20.

After watching Kent suffer their opening defeat to Hampshire, Ford said: "It's a long competition and we must now bounce back and show some character, which these guys have been very good at in the past.

"RJ (Robbie Joseph) was very close to playing at The Rose Bowl and at The Oval, but we held him back because they were both used pitches and therefore just that little bit slower.

"Other than Robbie, there are no other fresh legs to bring in because Amjad Khan has a slight hamstring twinge.

"Unfortunately, his body is sending out little messages warning us not to rush him back into too much work and every time we think he is fine something else niggles away."

Kent from: Key, Denly, van Jaarsveld, Kemp, Stevens, Jones, Mahmood, McLraen, Arafat. Tredwell,Cook, Joseph.