The Spitfire Diaries

11/08/2025

Our take on yesterday's defeat at Beckenham. It wasn't great but we can at least emphatically clear the admin team of one charge levelled at them.

Kent Spitfires 238 for eight lost by seven wickets to Durham 239 for three You can debate the merits of Beckenham as an outground venue (and the fanbase will until every last member with memories of The Mote and Tunbridge Wells is gone) but in terms of home advantage it’s offered Kent almost nothi...

08/08/2025

A late take on the reversal at Arundel: https://thekentspitfire.co.uk/cohen-solation-prize/

01/08/2025

Here's our take on Leicestershire. Featuring abuse of the Telegraph, Operation Brock, happy rumours (for once) and a decent performance.
https://thekentspitfire.co.uk/ben-sational/

26/07/2025

"Tuesday afternoon in Cardiff was Delgado’s time trial, Gary Sprake hurling the ball into his own net and Gerald Ratner calling his own jewellery crap, all rolled into one."

The Tour de France concludes this weekend and readers of a certain age may remember the 1989 edition, won by Greg LeMond, who overhauled Laurent Fignon on the final day. The headline was the margin of victory: at eight seconds the narrowest ever. What was largely forgotten, by that stage, was the re...

19/07/2025

Tension, shouts of "Judas", shared euphoria and the ongoing reinvention of Harry Finch. Our take on last night is now live:
https://thekentspitfire.co.uk/essex-blast/

14/07/2025

Our lukewarm take on yesterday's win is now live, featuring references to hope, epic misfortune and signing Andy Carroll
https://thekentspitfire.co.uk/middlesex-blast/

12/07/2025

Our report from last night's defeat to Somerset is now online and it's every bit as uplifting as you'd expect.

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10/07/2025

Report from last night's win at Hove. Channelling your inner Steve McQueen
https://thekentspitfire.co.uk/

07/07/2025

Dog Day Afternoon. Kent collapse in the Blast. Our report is now online. It includes references to dogs chewing on power cables.

Dog Day Afternoon Glamorgan (122-4) beat the Kent Spitfires (118-9) by 6 runs with 50 balls remaining This has happened before. Specifically it’s happened 14 times before and on only one of these occasions did Kent manage to win. It’ll happen again and when it does the reaction will be the same....

05/07/2025

The report from last night's War of the Wealds is now live.
It includes HG Wells, existential despair and swearing.

Self-inflicted wounds sink the Spitfires Sussex Sharks (4 points) 195 for 9 beat the Kent Spitfires 161 (0 points) by 34 runs. In War of the Worlds, HG Wells wrote. “Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and […]

02/07/2025

DIARY DAY 4: Unexpected drama, nerves, moaning, perspective and the best kind of cult to be in.

Day 3: It’s already 27 degrees at 9:30. This is not normal. By mid-day I count around 40 people still sitting in direct sunlight. How the players cope is beyond my comprehension, although being highly-trained athletes half my age probably has something to do with it. Everyone around the circuit se...

02/07/2025

Day three. Plucking Hell.

Day 1: Rumours: Compton, Gilchrist and Muyeye are all off at the end of the season. The source of these rumours is likely to be an agent and the publication in which the appear has a track record for being wrong about almost everything, almost all of the time, but in my experience the less […]