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Darren Stevens intends to become the oldest county cricketer to start a season since the Eighties next year despite his release by Kent.
Stevens wants to play on in 2023, when he will turn 47, which would make him the most senior player to sign up to a county staff since Jack Simmons finished with Lancashire at 48 in 1989.
Last year’s Wisden Cricketer of the Year is currently sidelined with a grade one calf tear but started running again on Friday and a successful three-week rehabilitation would see him fit for the start of September and the resumption of the County Championship.
Darren Stevens will be released by Kent at the end of the season ending his 17-year association with the county
If he featured for Kent, or indeed on a loan elsewhere in either of the two final rounds of this season, he would surpass Eddie Hemmings (46 years and 142 days) as the oldest player to feature at domestic level in England since Simmons.
A return to Leicestershire, the club he left to move to Kent 17 years ago, could be on the cards and potential
