Kent Spitfires are expected to name an unchanged side for this afternoon’s YB40 clash against Northamptonshire Steelbacks.

The Spitfires go into the game on a high after a 39 run victory over the Worcestershire Royals at New Road on Sunday afternoon.

A swift century from former skipper Rob Key and contributions of 93 from Sam Northeast and 52 from Fabian Cowdrey saw the Spitfires post 289 for 6 in their 40 overs and managed to bowl the home side out for 250 with two wickets apiece for five Kent bowlers.

With such a comfortable victory behind them and a place in the semi-finals still very much up for grabs, the Spitfires seem set to keep the same side with Ben Harmison expected to be named twelfth man once again.

Looking forward to the game, Kent Spitfires captain James Tredwell believes the Steelbacks will be a tough test at their own home ground:

“It promises to be another tough game for us. Northants have been impressive in all formats this year. They’ve played some good championship cricket and have done well in both the Twenty20 and the Yorkshire Bank 40 too.

“We know that they can cause us problems because they have good cricketers from one to 11. Equally though, we’ve played well in this tournament so we go there full of confidence.

“If we can put our a-game out then we’ve got a good chance of beating them. We are still very much in contention in this competition.”

Kent Spitfires squad: Tredwell (c), Key, Northeast, Nash, Stevens, Cowdrey, Harmison, Jones (wk), Coles, Claydon, Davies, Riley.

Northants squad: David Willey, Kyle Coetzer, Alex Wakely*, David Sales, Steven Crook, Matthew Spriegel, James Middlebrook, David Murphy+, Lee Daggett, Muhammad Azhar Ullah, Rob Keogh, Olly Stone.

Play starts at 3:40pm and you can follow all the action via our Twitter feed – @ksncricket

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