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ESS vs KT, 24th T20, T20 Blast 2026 summary
ESS
130-1(13.4)
Essex won by 9 wickets 🏆
KT
(20.0)129-9
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P'ship : 20(15)
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Time for us to conclude our coverage from this T20 Blast 2026 match between Kent and Essex. Essex will feel confident as they have defeated Kent in their home and this is a dominating victory by the margin. Both the teams will come back on Sunday again. Kent will be facing Surrey and Essex will face Derbyshire in a home game.'
For now, this is Saptak Sanyal signing off on behalf of my co-commentator Manan Mehta and the scorers/analysts of this match Sachin Yadav, Chandan Kumar Singh and Vishnu Verma. Good night.
For now, this is Saptak Sanyal signing off on behalf of my co-commentator Manan Mehta and the scorers/analysts of this match Sachin Yadav, Chandan Kumar Singh and Vishnu Verma. Good night.
1:32 AM IST and 9:02 PM Local Time: Essex have completely ruled the roost throughout the entire away game against Kent and emerged out victorious by 9 wickets. 129 was never enough on this wicket to defend and Kent naturally failed to do so. Essex chased it inside 13.4 overs and it is a thumping victory for them.
Essex won the toss and elected to bowl first. The top order of Kent did not do well at all and that reeled them back in this game. Tawanda Mueye (1), Zak Crawley (7) and skipper Sam Billings (8) got out for single digit scores and Daniel Bell-Drummond was dismissed for 13. Kent was reduced to 30/4 and eventually lost Joe Denly (14) to lose half of their side with just 46 on the board.
Dian Forrester and Jacob Lintott decided to put up a fight back then. Forrester continued his good form in T20 cricket and sporadically played his shots. When Kent lost Lintott (18), they were 94/6. That 48-run stand gave them some relief. Forrester was the leading run scorer for his side scoring 34 facing as many balls with 3 fours and a six. After his dismissal, the Spitfires posted 27 runs more in the remaining 16 balls and the courtesy goes to Matt Milnes. He hit 3 fours to remain unbeaten on 15 off 7 balls to take the score to 129.
Charlie Bennett (3/25) and Wiaan Mulder (3/26) were the pick of the bowlers for Essex and they got good assistances from Shane Snater (2/23) and Zaman Akhter (1/18).
Essex knew that they had only 130 runs to chase down in a decent batting track. So their openers, Paul Walter and Michael-Kyle Pepper started cautiously. They took only 9 runs from the first two overs and took 9 from the third over. Essex were going run-a-ball after the third over. Michael-Kyle Pepper tonked Milnes for a six then marking his first sign of aggression and Walter also followed his partner in the final ball of the over to take 16 from the fourth over. The sixth over went for 14 runs and Essex found them at a comfortable position with the scoreboard reading 56/0 after the powerplay.
Pepper then teed off. He took on Tom Rogers for a boundary and a maximum in the seventh over of the innings and hit Matthew Parkinson for a hat-trick of boundaries in the 9th over to bring up his half-century in 31 balls. Walter hitting a few boundaries at the other end helped the scoreboard to move from both ends.
When Pepper's mistimed ramp was snaffled by Sam Billings off Tom Rogers, the damage had been done. Kent got a wicket but it was too late for the home side to get one. The scoreboard read 110/1 with Pepper scoring 64 off 40 balls with 6 fours and 3 sixes. Charlie Allison and Paul Walter finished the job inside 14 overs. Walter finished unbeaten with 42 off 30 and Allison contributed 18 off 12 and Essex got the comfortable victory by 9 wickets.
Essex won the toss and elected to bowl first. The top order of Kent did not do well at all and that reeled them back in this game. Tawanda Mueye (1), Zak Crawley (7) and skipper Sam Billings (8) got out for single digit scores and Daniel Bell-Drummond was dismissed for 13. Kent was reduced to 30/4 and eventually lost Joe Denly (14) to lose half of their side with just 46 on the board.
Dian Forrester and Jacob Lintott decided to put up a fight back then. Forrester continued his good form in T20 cricket and sporadically played his shots. When Kent lost Lintott (18), they were 94/6. That 48-run stand gave them some relief. Forrester was the leading run scorer for his side scoring 34 facing as many balls with 3 fours and a six. After his dismissal, the Spitfires posted 27 runs more in the remaining 16 balls and the courtesy goes to Matt Milnes. He hit 3 fours to remain unbeaten on 15 off 7 balls to take the score to 129.
Charlie Bennett (3/25) and Wiaan Mulder (3/26) were the pick of the bowlers for Essex and they got good assistances from Shane Snater (2/23) and Zaman Akhter (1/18).
Essex knew that they had only 130 runs to chase down in a decent batting track. So their openers, Paul Walter and Michael-Kyle Pepper started cautiously. They took only 9 runs from the first two overs and took 9 from the third over. Essex were going run-a-ball after the third over. Michael-Kyle Pepper tonked Milnes for a six then marking his first sign of aggression and Walter also followed his partner in the final ball of the over to take 16 from the fourth over. The sixth over went for 14 runs and Essex found them at a comfortable position with the scoreboard reading 56/0 after the powerplay.
Pepper then teed off. He took on Tom Rogers for a boundary and a maximum in the seventh over of the innings and hit Matthew Parkinson for a hat-trick of boundaries in the 9th over to bring up his half-century in 31 balls. Walter hitting a few boundaries at the other end helped the scoreboard to move from both ends.
When Pepper's mistimed ramp was snaffled by Sam Billings off Tom Rogers, the damage had been done. Kent got a wicket but it was too late for the home side to get one. The scoreboard read 110/1 with Pepper scoring 64 off 40 balls with 6 fours and 3 sixes. Charlie Allison and Paul Walter finished the job inside 14 overs. Walter finished unbeaten with 42 off 30 and Allison contributed 18 off 12 and Essex got the comfortable victory by 9 wickets.
OVER 14
Essex
130/1
Charlie Allison
18(12)
Paul Walter
42(30)
Fred Klaassen
0-14(1.4)
13.4 Fred Klaassen to Charlie Allison
4 FOURRRRRR!!! A boundary to get to the target for the Essex side! Shortish ball on off stump, Allison stands tall and pulls it across the line, along the turf to the deep midwicket fence for a boundary! Essex win by 9 wickets with 38 balls to spare.
13.3 Fred Klaassen to Charlie Allison
0 Length ball on the stumps, Allison skips down the track and opens the bat face to guide the ball to the point fielder.
13.2 Fred Klaassen to Charlie Allison
4 FOURRRRR!!! The equation now comes down to just 4 runs required! Shortish ball outside off stump, Allison shuffles across and pulls this hard past the deep square fielder for a boundary!
13.1 Fred Klaassen to Charlie Allison
0 Over the wicket, length ball outside off stump, Allison shuffles across and fends the ball to the covers fielder.
Just 8 runs are required from the remaining 7 overs now. Fred Klaassen comes back in the attack.
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