MatchesMen's First-classCounty Championship 2026

Gloucestershire v Kent

Group 2, match 18 · County Ground, Bristol · 8 May 2026 – 11 May 2026

Kent won by 2 wickets

Gloucestershire 1st innings32591.1 overs

Kent 1st innings327103.5 overs

Gloucestershire 2nd innings26285.1 overs

Kent 2nd innings261/870.4 overs

Gloucestershire 1st innings 325 (91.1 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
CT Bancroft	c Z Crawley b JPA Taylor	12	29	2	0	41.4
BG Charlesworth	b JDM Evison	85	148	13	0	57.4
OJ Price	c KJ Dudgeon b JPA Taylor	50	100	9	0	50.0
Miles Hammond	lbw b KJ Dudgeon	12	37	2	0	32.4
James Bracey	lbw b JDM Evison	57	80	9	0	71.3
TW Boorman	c CG Benjamin b KJ Dudgeon	49	99	8	0	49.5
GL van Buuren	c TS Muyeye b JPA Taylor	18	24	3	0	75.0
EWO Middleton	b JPA Taylor	6	22	1	0	27.3
MD Taylor	lbw b JPA Taylor	0	5	0	0	0.0
WSA Williams	c & b JPA Taylor	0	1	0	0	0.0
GT Bell	not out	5	4	0	0	125.0
Extras		31
Total	all out, 91.1 overs	325

Fall of wickets: 27-1 (CT Bancroft, 9.2 ov), 144-2 (OJ Price, 41.6 ov), 172-3 (Miles Hammond, 51.6 ov), 172-4 (BG Charlesworth, 52.1 ov), 287-5 (James Bracey, 77.4 ov), 309-6 (GL van Buuren, 85.1 ov), 313-7 (TW Boorman, 86.4 ov), 318-8 (MD Taylor, 89.3 ov), 318-9 (WSA Williams, 89.4 ov), 325-10 (EWO Middleton, 91.1 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Dots	Wd	Nb
KJ Dudgeon	22	7	63	2	2.86	107	0	0
JPA Taylor	23.1	9	52	6	2.24	109	0	2
Ekansh Singh	14	1	62	0	4.43	57	0	2
MA Cohen	16	3	59	0	3.69	71	2	0
JDM Evison	14	3	62	2	4.43	56	0	0
TS Muyeye	2	1	2	0	1.00	10	0	0

Partnerships

Wicket	Runs	Balls	Batters
1	27	56	CT Bancroft 12, BG Charlesworth 13
2	117	196	BG Charlesworth 56, OJ Price 50
3	28	60	BG Charlesworth 16, Miles Hammond 12
4	0	1	BG Charlesworth 0, James Bracey 0
5	115	153	James Bracey 57, TW Boorman 43
6	22	45	TW Boorman 2, GL van Buuren 18
7	4	9	TW Boorman 4, EWO Middleton 0
8	5	17	EWO Middleton 4, MD Taylor 0
9	0	1	EWO Middleton 0, WSA Williams 0
10	7	9	EWO Middleton 2, GT Bell 5

Kent 1st innings 327 (103.5 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
MA Cohen	c CT Bancroft b WSA Williams	18	49	3	0	36.7
Z Crawley	b GT Bell	1	12	0	0	8.3
BJ Dawkins	b WSA Williams	65	130	11	0	50.0
SA Northeast	b WSA Williams	2	3	0	0	66.7
TS Muyeye	c James Bracey b BG Charlesworth	90	141	14	0	63.8
DJ Bell-Drummond	c OJ Price b WSA Williams	3	13	0	0	23.1
CG Benjamin	c CT Bancroft b GT Bell	74	129	8	0	57.4
Ekansh Singh	run out (WSA Williams)	12	30	0	1	40.0
JDM Evison	c James Bracey b BG Charlesworth	2	16	0	0	12.5
KJ Dudgeon	c WSA Williams b GT Bell	39	87	3	0	44.8
JPA Taylor	not out	10	14	1	0	71.4
Extras		11
Total	all out, 103.5 overs	327

Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Z Crawley, 4.5 ov), 37-2 (MA Cohen, 14.3 ov), 39-3 (SA Northeast, 14.6 ov), 141-4 (BJ Dawkins, 47.3 ov), 151-5 (DJ Bell-Drummond, 51.3 ov), 206-6 (TS Muyeye, 65.3 ov), 226-7 (Ekansh Singh, 72.4 ov), 245-8 (JDM Evison, 79.6 ov), 310-9 (CG Benjamin, 99.4 ov), 327-10 (KJ Dudgeon, 103.5 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Dots	Wd	Nb
GT Bell	25.5	7	76	3	2.94	115	1	0
WSA Williams	24	5	48	4	2.00	116	0	0
MD Taylor	19	2	65	0	3.42	86	0	2
BG Charlesworth	12	2	43	2	3.58	48	0	0
EWO Middleton	5	0	31	0	6.20	14	0	0
GL van Buuren	18	1	56	0	3.11	72	0	0

Partnerships

Wicket	Runs	Balls	Batters
1	1	29	MA Cohen 0, Z Crawley 1
2	36	58	MA Cohen 18, BJ Dawkins 16
3	2	3	BJ Dawkins 0, SA Northeast 2
4	102	195	BJ Dawkins 49, TS Muyeye 53
5	10	24	TS Muyeye 7, DJ Bell-Drummond 3
6	55	84	TS Muyeye 30, CG Benjamin 25
7	20	43	CG Benjamin 8, Ekansh Singh 12
8	19	44	CG Benjamin 17, JDM Evison 2
9	65	118	CG Benjamin 24, KJ Dudgeon 32
10	17	25	KJ Dudgeon 7, JPA Taylor 10

Gloucestershire 2nd innings 262 (85.1 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
CT Bancroft	lbw b JDM Evison	83	195	9	0	42.6
BG Charlesworth	c KJ Dudgeon b JPA Taylor	6	26	1	0	23.1
OJ Price	c KJ Dudgeon b MA Cohen	11	32	2	0	34.4
Miles Hammond	c MA Cohen b Ekansh Singh	33	55	6	0	60.0
James Bracey	c Z Crawley b MA Cohen	0	12	0	0	0.0
TW Boorman	c TS Muyeye b Ekansh Singh	19	60	2	0	31.7
GL van Buuren	b JPA Taylor	32	31	7	0	103.2
EWO Middleton	c SA Northeast b JPA Taylor	22	48	4	0	45.8
MD Taylor	c CG Benjamin b Ekansh Singh	10	24	2	0	41.7
WSA Williams	b JPA Taylor	14	14	3	0	100.0
GT Bell	not out	9	14	2	0	64.3
Extras		23
Total	all out, 85.1 overs	262

Fall of wickets: 14-1 (BG Charlesworth, 9.1 ov), 39-2 (OJ Price, 20.1 ov), 109-3 (Miles Hammond, 38.5 ov), 112-4 (James Bracey, 41.5 ov), 151-5 (TW Boorman, 58.6 ov), 200-6 (GL van Buuren, 67.4 ov), 211-7 (CT Bancroft, 71.1 ov), 227-8 (MD Taylor, 77.3 ov), 251-9 (WSA Williams, 81.6 ov), 262-10 (EWO Middleton, 85.1 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Dots	Wd
KJ Dudgeon	17	3	50	0	2.94	76	1
JPA Taylor	20.1	6	54	4	2.68	93	0
MA Cohen	18	5	45	2	2.50	86	0
JDM Evison	17	5	46	1	2.71	82	0
Ekansh Singh	13	1	46	3	3.54	58	1

Partnerships

Wicket	Runs	Balls	Batters
1	14	55	CT Bancroft 4, BG Charlesworth 6
2	25	66	CT Bancroft 10, OJ Price 11
3	70	112	CT Bancroft 31, Miles Hammond 33
4	3	18	CT Bancroft 2, James Bracey 0
5	39	103	CT Bancroft 18, TW Boorman 19
6	49	52	CT Bancroft 13, GL van Buuren 32
7	11	21	CT Bancroft 5, EWO Middleton 6
8	16	38	EWO Middleton 5, MD Taylor 10
9	24	27	EWO Middleton 10, WSA Williams 14
10	11	19	EWO Middleton 1, GT Bell 9

Kent 2nd innings 261/8 (70.4 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
BJ Dawkins	c BG Charlesworth b GT Bell	7	18	0	0	38.9
Z Crawley	b WSA Williams	17	21	3	0	81.0
SA Northeast	lbw b WSA Williams	4	35	0	0	11.4
TS Muyeye	c James Bracey b MD Taylor	108	129	17	0	83.7
DJ Bell-Drummond	b GT Bell	38	66	6	0	57.6
CG Benjamin	b GT Bell	42	70	4	0	60.0
Ekansh Singh	c OJ Price b GT Bell	18	35	2	0	51.4
JDM Evison	not out	12	31	2	0	38.7
KJ Dudgeon	c GL van Buuren b WSA Williams	0	5	0	0	0.0
JPA Taylor	not out	7	14	1	0	50.0
Extras		8
Total	8 wickets, 70.4 overs	261

Did not bat: MA Cohen

Fall of wickets: 22-1 (BJ Dawkins, 4.4 ov), 24-2 (Z Crawley, 7.4 ov), 64-3 (SA Northeast, 18.2 ov), 146-4 (DJ Bell-Drummond, 38.3 ov), 204-5 (TS Muyeye, 51.3 ov), 231-6 (CG Benjamin, 59.4 ov), 248-7 (Ekansh Singh, 63.6 ov), 253-8 (KJ Dudgeon, 66.4 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Dots
GT Bell	22	3	87	4	3.95	91
WSA Williams	21.4	3	67	3	3.09	95
MD Taylor	15	4	44	1	2.93	68
BG Charlesworth	2	0	25	0	12.50	3
GL van Buuren	4	0	13	0	3.25	14
EWO Middleton	6	0	17	0	2.83	22

Partnerships

Wicket	Runs	Balls	Batters
1	22	28	BJ Dawkins 7, Z Crawley 15
2	2	18	Z Crawley 2, SA Northeast 0
3	40	64	SA Northeast 4, TS Muyeye 32
4	82	121	TS Muyeye 43, DJ Bell-Drummond 38
5	58	78	TS Muyeye 33, CG Benjamin 25
6	27	49	CG Benjamin 17, Ekansh Singh 8
7	17	26	Ekansh Singh 10, JDM Evison 7
8	5	16	JDM Evison 4, KJ Dudgeon 0
Unbroken	8	24	JDM Evison 1, JPA Taylor 7

Match details

Toss: Kent, chose to field
Ground: County Ground, England & Wales
Season: 2026
Umpires: Chris Watts, S Widdup
Match referee: AM Smith
Source: Cricsheet match 1513413