Kent Cricket will sit down and hold talks with all-rounder Darren Stevens after a career best performance on Monday.

The first day of Kent’s Division One fixture against Yorkshire at Emerald Headingley has produced remarkable batting performances from both Darren Stevens who scored 237 from only 225 balls, and club captain Sam Billings, amassing 138 runs.

The partnership which lasted 263 minutes, set a new club record sixth wicket stand of 346. 31 runs more than the previous best of 315, set in 1995 by Mark Ealham and Aravinda de Silva against Nottinghamshire.

Speaking after Stevens’ innings at Headingley, Kent Cricket’s Director of Cricket Paul Downton has acknowledged the all-rounder’s innings.

“As I’m sure every Kent supporter will agree, it’s a great day to be associated with our Club. On behalf of everyone at Kent Cricket, I’d like to congratulate Darren Stevens on his new first-class career best score of 237 runs. To score such a big total, at more than a run a ball, is a brilliant achievement and one that quite rightly will steal all the headlines from today’s play across the Specsavers County Championship.”

“It’s been a tremendous effort today to secure maximum batting points from the position we found ourselves in at 39/5. Congratulations must also go to Sam Billings who scored his second consecutive century.”

Addressing the question surrounding Stevens being offered a contract extension, Downton added, “Darren has put together some match winning performances for Kent in recent matches and we would be foolish to ignore his recent form.”

“Obviously, such performances cannot go unnoticed and we’ll be sitting down with ‘Stevo’ after this match to discuss his future. It has been great to see his return to form.”