It was pretty close ...

We gained our first win in the top division of the county championship when we beat Kent up at Tunbridge Wells, but it was a pretty close fought match throughout.

After winning the toss and deciding to bat first we did well to get to 208 all out - especially after we had slipped to 8o odd for six at one point and things certainly did not go according to plan.

Pete Trego played a vital innings to help us get to where we did. He is really in good form at the moment and getting wickets as well as scoring runs.

We knew after that we had to fight hard to get any kind of result out of that game and in the end we did pretty well.

We managed to dismiss them with only a 60 run lead thanks again to Pete Trego who took four wickets.

Then Marcus’s big hundred was the key innings for us. The way he batted at Kent typifies the way that he is playing at the minute, and although he isn’t enjoying the best of form in white ball cricket certainly in the red ball game he is playing superbly.

Steffan Jones bowled fantastically well in the Kent second innings and with five down over night we knew that we had to get couple of wickets early on which he did for us. He bowled a great spell and got four wickets in 10 balls to set us on our way.

Even though we have been playing good cricket in the four-day competition we had not won a game so to get the Kent result under our belts was a big sense of relief for us all.

We knew a win had to come, but because we are now in the first division we know that they are not going to come as easily as they did last season.

It was a shame that the rain ruined our chances of playing against Gloucestershire in the Friends Provident Trophy at Bath on Monday because we were looking to try to get our own back on them for beating us up at Bristol.

However by the time that this is printed we will know whether or not we are through to the last eight of the competition and who we will be playing against, so lets hope we can get the result we want at Cardiff on Wednesday and take the next step on the road to Lord’s.

We are playing some good cricket in the four day competition so have to feel pretty confident going up to Whitgift School to take on Surrey on Friday.

If we can try to get more first innings batting points than we have up until now it will stand us in better stead for the second time round and help us to set up a winning position.

The teams in the first division of the championship are stronger than some of the ones that we played against last season in the second division and the ones that we have come up against so far have all had quality bowling attacks. We are all up for the fight and this season is a great opportunity for us to prove just what we can do against the best players in England.