Worcestershire resume their Specsavers County Championship programme against Kent at New Road today.
Here are the first class records of the matches between the two counties.
Worcestershire: Played: 141 Won: 28 Lost: 64 Drawn: 49 Abandoned: 2
Last match played: Kent won by 10 wickets at Canterbury – 3rd-6th August 2016
Worcs 211 (JM Clarke 69, ME Claydon 5-42) & 251 (GH Rhodes 55, DI Stevens 3-31) Kent 451 (DI Stevens 81, SR Dickson 79, WRS Gidman 75*, EG Barnard 3-97) & 14-0
Highest total – Worcestershire: 627-9 dec New Road 1905
Highest total – Kent: 602-7 dec Dudley 1938
Lowest total – Worcestershire: 25 Tunbridge Wells 1960
Lowest total – Kent: 50 Dover 1955
Highest score – Worcestershire: RE Foster 246* New Road 1905
Highest score – Kent: LEG Ames 201* Gillingham 1937, LEG Ames 201 New Road 1939
Best innings bowling – Worcs: JA Flavell 9-30 Dover 1955
Best innings bowling – Kent: DJ Halfyard 9-61 Maidstone 1959
Best match bowling – Worcs: SH Martin 14-107 Gillingham 1939
Best match bowling – Kent: DJ Halfyard 15-117 Maidstone1959
Most runs – Worcestershire: FA Pearson 1645 Ave: 24.92
Most runs – Kent: FE Woolley 2445 Ave: 46.13
Most wickets – Worcestershire: RTD Perks 131 Ave: 22.44
Most wickets – Kent: C Blythe 196 Ave: 15.43
Best partnerships for Worcestershire:
1st 277 D Kenyon LF Outschoorn Gravesend 1954
2nd 274 HHIH Gibbons Nawab of Pataudi New Road 1933
3rd 303 HK Foster RE Foster New Road 1907
4th 260 CF Walters CH Bull Gravesend 1933
5th 123 TS Curtis MJ Weston New Road 1985
6th 185 PA Neale SJ Rhodes Canterbury 1990
7th 159 SJ Rhodes SR Lampitt Canterbury1996
8th 126 TC Fell JD Shantry New Road 2013
9th 98 RE Foster GA Wilson New Road 1905
10th 102 RK Illingworth P Mirza Canterbury 1994
Best partnerships for Kent:
1st 217 WH Ashdown C Fairservice Gravesend 1933
2nd 307 HTW Hardinge J Seymour Kidderminster 1922
3rd 285 MR Benson CJ Tavare New Road 1987
4th 251 CJ Tavare AGE Ealham Canterbury 1979
5th 236 MJ Walker MA Carberry Canterbury 2004
6th 155 APF Chapman LEG Ames Folkestone 1927
7th 110 JC Tredwell NJ O’Brien New Road 2004
8th 120 APE Knott RA Woolmer Dartford 1973
9th 98 P Hearn DVP Wright Dudley 1954
10th 235 FE Woolley A Fielder Stourbridge 1909
*Thanks to Worcestershire analyst Phil Mellish for the above information
