Cricket coverage comes to Kent Local News: every Kent CCC match, every men’s Hundred franchise

After months of expanding our local sport coverage from Kent’s National League and EFL clubs into non-league Steps 7 and 8, we are extending the same automated match-report pipeline to a second sport: cricket. From this week, every Kent County Cricket Club fixture and every match in the eight-team men’s Hundred gets a same-day report on Kent Local News.

What we’ll cover

The cricket beat covers four competitions in detail:

• County Championship — Kent’s red-ball season, with a scorecard summary at the close of each day’s play.
• Vitality T20 Blast — every Kent group-stage and knockout match.
• Royal London One-Day Cup — Kent’s 50-over campaign through the group and knockout stages.
• The Hundred (Men’s) — all eight franchises: Birmingham Phoenix, London Spirit, Manchester Originals, Northern Superchargers, Oval Invincibles, Southern Brave, Trent Rockets and Welsh Fire.

For each match, the report carries who played whom, where, the result, the standout batting and bowling performances drawn from the scorecard, the toss outcome where it’s recorded, the player of the match, and what the result means for the team’s season position.

How the reports are written

Match data comes through our subscription to api-cricket.com, which feeds every county and Hundred fixture worldwide. As soon as a match finishes, our editorial system pulls the raw scorecard, deduplicates it against earlier coverage of the same fixture, and drafts a 250–380-word piece using our automated drafting pipeline.

Every cricket report runs through the same compliance and format checks as our news, investigation and football coverage. So the cricket section is held to the same editorial standard as the rest of the site — not loosened for being auto-drafted.

Reports typically appear between 22:30 and midnight UK time on the day a match finishes. A County Championship Day 4 finish at 18:00 lands in your evening reading; a 14:30 T20 result follows in the same evening window.

Where to find it

The dedicated Cricket category houses every match report. Cricket also feeds into the broader Kent Sport hub alongside our existing football coverage, so a single page now surfaces both the football and cricket headlines of the day.

For readers who want headlines without browsing, our newsletter is gaining a Cricket toggle in the coming weeks. The Kent Football coverage continues unchanged.

This first piece sits as the launch entry. From now on, the rest of the page below this one will fill up — county by county, match by match — with the cricket Kent puts on its grounds and the cricket Kent fans follow on screens across the country.