By Luke Baker
AT THE end of a season in which they’ve come so close to glory, only to fall agonisingly short, Kent skipper Sam Billings is desperate for his team to get over the line this time. A loss to Hampshire in the One-Day Cup final at Lord’s followed by a quarter-final defeat to Lancashire in the Blast made the Spitfires this summer’s white-ball nearly men.
But promotion to Division One in the red-ball game is now so close they can taste it. Starting on Tuesday, Kent face as near to a gimme as you could reasonably expect – a clash against bottom-of-thetable Gl...