Kent Spitfires’ Tawanda Muyeye believes they have more time in T20 cricket than it appears.
The short format of the game can see the match won or lost in a flash but Muyeye insisted the key is not to panic.
It was a case of point proven in Sunday’s win over Middlesex, the opener absorbing early pressure in the powerplay before stepping on the accelerator.
“I think you always have more time than you think, especially at T20,” said Muyeye.
“Being an opener, it can be a blessing and a curse at times. You have that luxury to go hard and sometimes it’ll come off, sometimes it won’t.
“But I think me and Harry Finch complemented each other quite well on Sunday. We just didn’t panic.
“You want to win games for your club and that’s something I’ve been working on, especially the other day with Adam Hollioake. He’s said we have to break up whatever runs we’ve got to get. I tried to do that and it worked so it was pretty good.”
The Spitfires are yet to string back-to-back wins together in this season’s competition.
They’ll almost certainly need to break that sequence against Essex at Canterbury on Friday if they are to reach the quarter-finals.
But Muyeye put the mixed run of results down to the schedule rather than any suggestion of inconsistent team performances.
Kent have just played five T20 matches in the space of 10 days, on the back of a two-week block of county championship cricket.
Spitfires had a similar run earlier in their Blast schedule plus a sequence of three games in four days.
“I think inconsistency is a bit unfair for starters,” Muyeye responded. “I think it’s a tough, a very tough schedule, I’ll be honest.
“For lads to perform high performance every single day, I mean, it can happen. It’s possible.
“Obviously, other teams have to go through that. I just think the schedule probably needs to be a bit better layout and I think lads will perform a bit better around the country.”
