Daniel Bell-Drummond appointed Kent membership captain

Bell-Drummond, 30, got here by the Kent academy and has made 369 appearances for the membership throughout codecs, captaining the facet on plenty of events in Billings’ absence. Last season, he made a career-best 300 not out towards Northamptonshire, serving to to arrange considered one of Kent’s two wins as they narrowly survived in Division One of the LV= Insurance County Championship.

Bell-Drummond will captain the facet in Championship, with the 50-over management prone to depend upon availability across the Hundred.

“I’ve been a Kent cricketer since I was seven years old; I love the club,” Bell-Drummond mentioned. “It’s now my job, alongside the rest of the playing squad, to take Kent Cricket forward into a new season as captain and it’s a challenge that I’m looking forward to.

“I’m wanting ahead to working with Simon Cook and Matt Walker, shaping this crew into being aggressive on all fronts, but additionally ensuring that this ethos spreads all the way down to our age group squads, with assist from our incredible pathway coaches.

“I’d like to thank Sam Billings for his six years of excellent club captaincy, and, of course, I’ll be working closely with Sam as he remains one of the leaders in the dressing room. This is a team sport, and everyone will have a role to play.

“To the Kent members and supporters – we’ll each be experiencing good occasions and I’m certain some powerful occasions, however we might be going by all of it collectively. We’ll be trying to hit the bottom operating for 2024 and that can start with pre-season coaching within the New Year. Before everyone knows it, it will be April and time as soon as once more to put on the Kent shirt with delight.”

Simon Cook, Kent’s director of cricket, added: “We’re delighted to nominate Daniel as our membership captain. He is among the actual leaders within the dressing room and has proven time and time once more to be considered one of our marquee gamers – with glorious performances with the bat and likewise being part of the senior management group of the crew.

“He has led by example when called upon whether as captain or as a senior player when it has been needed, and I have complete confidence in Daniel to be a big contributor in how we want to move forward, playing a brand of cricket that filters down to our talent pathway and hopefully brings renewed success.

“We’re additionally delighted that Sam Billings will proceed his management of our T20 facet. Sam has invaluable expertise of taking part in in, and profitable, the most important tournaments in T20 cricket, together with captaining us to our T20 title in 2021.”