Kent, county champions and runners-up in this League last year, will be approaching every match with care and dedication in the hope of going one better in 1971. Northamptonshire are basically a young side and with a new captain in Jim Watts, and the hard-hitting South African Hylton Ackerman, they provide worthy opposition to the county champions.
During the tea interval at 4.0*: Profile of a Cricketer: C. Milburn (Northamptonshire and England) by John Arlott
Frank Bough introduces the programme, which includes news of today's other fixtures: Derbyshire v Essex, Glamorgan v Middlesex, Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire, Somerset v Lancashire, Surrey v Worcestershire, Warwickshire v Sussex, Yorkshire v Gloucestershire
Commentators at the County Ground, Northampton: John Arlott, Jim Laker