By Fred Atkins

Confidence wasn’t high in the Kent fan base when Yorkshire reduced them to 49-4 during their opening Metro Bank One-Day Cup Trophy game last Tuesday.
Then again it wasn’t that high going into last year’s final, when the Spitfires took on a full-strength Lancashire with the same squad that had got them through the knock-out stages.
Yet Kent won both games and the common denominator was Joey Evison: 97 runs and two key wickets at Trent Bridge earned him the Player-of-the-Match award, while a crucial 136 at Scarborough helped the visitors squeezed home by two runs in a DLS-affe...