KENT look set to suffer a financial blow after being forced to put their potentially lucrative Canterbury Cricket Week limited overs game against Glamorgan back 24 hours.

Initially planned for Sunday, August 8, the totesport League clash with the Dragons will now be played on the Monday afternoon following Glamorgan’s involvement in Twenty20 Cup finals weekend in Birmingham.

Kent had hired a good number of hospitality packages for the game, some of which have since been cancelled by understandably disappointed clients.

Kent chief executive Paul Millman attempted to fill the ‘free’ festival Sunday with a non-first class fixture, and also investigated hosting a day-night Sunday game, but all avenues failed.

He said: “When you sit down the previous August to organise the following season’s fixtures there is always a possibility that some games would be impacted by the Twenty20 finals. Sadly we are one of the eight clubs to be effected in this way and there is no financial recourse to the England and Wales Cricket Board.

“How damaging it will be to us will only be known once we bank the take from Monday’s re-arranged game. The one saving grace is that the schools are on holiday, so we hope the families will come along and support us come 1pm that Monday.”