By Fred Atkins

CANTERBURY week nearly didn’t happen, yet turned out far better than anyone could have expected.
A Covid scare robbed Kent of 14 first-teamers, but the club were determined their annual showpiece should go ahead and assembled a team that exceeded all expectations against an almost equally callow Sussex.
Eighteeen-year-old Jas Singh, who thought he, too, would have to isolate when his phone rang on Saturday night, took 4-51 as Sussex were all out for 181.
Jamie Atkins, himself only 19, responded with a fine return of 5-51, but having been 69-6 at one stage Kent wer...