Daniel Bell-Drummond

Only three of the eight players who won selection for the ECB's North v South Series via the PCA MVP ranking system will take part in this year's outing to Barbados in March

Nottinghamshire are in no rush to sign up another overseas player when James Pattinson returns to Australia after Saturday's Royal London One-Day Cup final

James Tredwell has asked Kent for permission to talk to other counties having become frustrated by his lack of first team opportunities

Alastair Cook's impressive form in the Royal London Cup has earned him an automatic spot in next year's North v South one-day series

Laurie Evans blasted an unbeaten 134 to help Sussex land a six-wicket Royal London One-Day Cup victory over winless South Group rivals Kent

Peter Trego smote 135 against his former county as Somerset made it three wins from as many Royal London Cup South Group games with a four-wicket win over Kent at Taunton

ESPNcricinfo previews Kent's prospects for the 2017 season

Mason Crane produced a stunning spell of legspin to secure a 3-0 whitewash for the South in a rain-affected climax to the new North-South Series in Abu Dhabi

Dawid Malan made a high-class century and shared an unbroken opening partnership of 205 with Daniel Bell-Drummond as the South crushed the North by 10 wickets in the first game of the new North-South Series in Dubai

Daniel Bell-Drummond made a century and Tom Alsop 96 during a 200-run stand that took England Lions to victory in the fourth match against Sri Lanka A

Beneath the shadow of Elephant Rock, England Lions produced the sort of under-par display that even an elephant would want to forget in a hurry

The likes of Jason Roy, Sam Billings, Ben Duckett and Daniel Bell-Drummond will fill grounds and keep the game alive for the next generation of fans

Sam Billings became only the second Kent wicketkeeper to take seven catches in an innings while paceman Mitch Claydon bagged his best championship figures for the county

England Lions produced an astonishing display of batting in their recent tri-series, further evidence of the belated evolution in the limited-overs game in English cricket

Ben Duckett and Daniel Bell-Drummond smashed their way into the record books with the second-highest List A partnership in the world as England Lions cruised to a 140 run win over Sri Lanka A at Canterbury

Kent's Daniel Bell-Drummond threw off his helmet and leapt, punching the air, after his unbeaten 112 eased Spitfires to an eight-wicket NatWest T20 Blast win over Surrey in Tunbridge Wells

Kent secured their second Royal London Cup win of the South Group campaign after easing aside Somerset by 95 runs during a squally afternoon in Canterbury.

Kent conceded 492 but had the ambition to pull off a pulsating win at Derby, routing them for 94 in their second innings and finishing a chase organised by Daniel Bell-Drummond with a fusillade of sixes