It looked as though Kent were building some momentum, but that's another solid over from Danny Lamb. Just three singles conceded, with Ollie Robinson up to 35 and Joey Evison 17.

It's a change of ends for Will Williams - but not a change in fortune. Having been hit for two fours in his previous over, the Lancashire seamer gets the same treatment again as Ollie Robinson heaves him away twice on the leg side. He's moved on to 33 now as the Spitfires bring up the 50 - and, of course, the 50 partnership as well.

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The average Lancashire have conceded in their powerplays in this competition this season is 48 - so that's a bit better than par.

Good start from Danny Lamb to only go for one run after 18 had been conceded off the previous two. And a good recovery having slipped when bowling his first ball.

First bowling change for Lancashire - and very nearly a dramatic entrance for Danny Lamb. The seamer loses his footing as he prepares to release his first ball and ends up in a crumpled heap. Fortunately Lamb is only embarrassed rather than hurt and he sends down a tidy over, with just a single to Ollie Robinson as we reach the end of the powerplay.

Joey Evison's played the anchor role so far for Kent, but he seizes the opportunity of a Tom Bailey delivery outside off stump. It was just asking to be pumped to the boundary and Evison obliges - before leg-glancing the next ball off his pads for four more.

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Right, this is the over where Ollie Robinson's decided to step on the gas a little. He drives Will Williams twice to the boundary and also hits him over the top on the off side, just beating the fielder and collecting two more to bring Kent 10 from the over - their most productive so far by some distance.

Ollie Robinson is living a little dangerously now... he survives an lbw shout by Tom Bailey, although the ball that nipped back looked to be too high. Then he lifts Bailey high on the leg side and picks up two runs as the ball drops just short of the fielder at deep square leg.

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Joey Evison is on loan with Kent from Nottinghamshire and knows the ground here. That will definitely help him feel at home.

Joey Evison picks up his first boundary, latching onto a ball that Will Williams overpitched and drilling it cleanly beyond midwicket. Good recovery from the bowler, though, beating Evison outside off stump in one of his five dot balls.

The Spitfires haven't quite - pardon the pun - taken off yet, with Ollie Robinson and Joey Evison just ticking over steadily as they look to recover from the early loss of Ben Compton. Just a single from this latest Tom Bailey over, although the pitch doesn't look to be doing much at this stage.

Steady start from Will Williams, who concedes only four from this over, all to Ollie Robinson. He punches Williams through the covers and then whips one off his pads, but neither shot has the pace to reach the fence and Robinson settles for two each time.

Joey Evison finally gets to take strike, in the third over. He's back on familiar turf at Trent Bridge, having begun his career with Nottinghamshire and he's up and running with a two on the leg side. Overall, another tight over from Tom Bailey, though.

Will Williams, as expected, gets to share the new ball with Bailey and he's straight into his stride with a consistent line and length. Ollie Robinson picks up a couple of runs, clipping him behind square and then registers the first boundary of the game, crunching the bowler to the fence at long off.

Kent's first run comes courtesy of a wide from Tom Bailey and new batter Ollie Robinson follows it up with a single on the leg side, but the bowling side will be more than happy with that opening over.

A rendition of Abide With Me . . . then an impeccably observed minute's silence for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, followed by God Save The King.

Respectful applause, followed by louder, more raucuous applause as Keaton Jennings leads out the Lancashire team.

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Despite picking up two T20 titles, the most recent of those just a year ago – Kent have been afflicted by a cup final curse when it comes to the longer limited-overs formats.

They have not tasted success in a List A final since 1978 (when Darren Stevens was just two years old) and Alan Ealham’s side saw off Derbyshire by six wickets to lift the Benson & Hedges Cup.

Eight consecutive failures in finals have followed – beginning with back-to-back defeats in the NatWest Trophy in 1983 and 1984, when they lost out at Lord’s to Somerset and then Middlesex.

The second of those setbacks was a last-ball loss, when John Emburey hit Richard Ellison to the boundary and Middlesex followed it up two years later with another narrow two-run victory against Kent in the Benson & Hedges final.

Kent reached three more Benson & Hedges showpieces between 1992 and 1997, going down to Hampshire, today’s opponents Lancashire and then Surrey, in only the second domestic final to be played with the 50-over format.

A new millennium brought no respite for Kent, though – they went down to Essex by five wickets in what was then known as the Friends Provident Trophy in 2008.

Four years ago, Sam Billings’ men seemed in with a chance of breaking their losing habit when they reached 158-2, chasing Hampshire’s total of 330-7 with more than 20 overs to go – only to collapse to 269 all out and another cup final defeat.

Surely an end to that sequence is long overdue?

Both of these two sides made it out of the same nine-team qualifying group.

Lancahire won five of their eight games to finish second in Group B behind Hampshire to earn a home quarter-final against Notts.

A Steven Croft-inspired three-wicket win at Blackpool then led to a semi-final three days later at Hove, where they beat Sussex by 65 runs, with Red Rose red-ball skipper Dane Vilas this time proving the match-winning centurion.

By contrast, Kent have had ti even tougher.

They only scraped out of their group in third with back-to-back home wins at Canterbury - a last-ball Grant Stewart six to beat Yorkshire. then a three-wicket win over Lancashire at Canterbur- and they have then had to win twice on the road to get to the final.

They were far too good in the quarter for Leicestershire, winning hy 81 runs, before the real drama came in the semi, when the ageless Darren Stevens suddenly exploded into life with an unbeaten 84 off 65 balls to stun treble-chasing favourites Hampshire at Southampton.

Kent captain Joe Denly has won the toss and chosen to bat first.

Kent are unchanged from their stunning semi-final win over Hampshire.

Lancashire bring in Rob Jones for George Balderson.

Lancs in navy blue, with fuchsia (reddish) trim.

Kent in powder blue tops, with navy trousers.

Lancashire: Jennings (capt), Wells, Bohannon, Croft, Vilas, Jones, Lavelle (wk), Lamb, Hurt, Bailey, Williams.

Kent: Denly (capt), Evison, Compton, Robinson (wk), Blake, Stevens, Finch, Stewart, Podmore, Qadri, Gilchrist.

Umpires: Paul Pollard, Russell Warren

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For anyone of a certain age, seeing Lancashire line up Kent brings back memories of the two Gillette Cup finals between the two counties five decades ago.

Fresh from their then famous David Hughes-inspired televised 1971 semi-final triumph over Gloucestershire close to nine o'clock in fading light at Old Trafford, Lancashire completed the second of three straight Gillette Cup final wins when they beat Kent at Lord's by 24 runs.

But, three years later, in 1974, Kent got their revenge when they bowled out Lancs for just 118 at Lord's to win by three wickets.

The likes of Clive Lloyd, David 'Bumble' Lloyd, Flat Jack Simmons and Farokh Engineeer on one team

Alan Knott, Mike Denness, Derek Underwood and Bob Woolmer for Kent - and Colin Cowdrey too, in the second of those two finals.

Roll on 21 years - and there was a Lloyd and a Cowdrey present at Lord's too - Graham Lloyd and Graham Cowdrey - when Lancs, with a team containing current coach Glen Chapple, beat Kent by 35 runs to win the 1995 Benson and Hedges Cup final.

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