Kent Cricket skipper James Tredwell has backed Ben Harmison to return to the t20 fold after being sacrificed for tactical reasons to allow the recall of Geraint Jones to the Spitfires side.

Harmison had scored just 39 runs in his last five one-day appearances for the Spitfires and was visibly frustrated at the crease in his last appearance on Friday night against Essex.

He was replaced in the side by Jones – who had been told to expect to miss the t20 campaign – at Middlesex on Sunday, with Jones taking the gloves from Sam Billings, who had kept wicket in the opening three games.

Tredwell admitted: “We’ve got ourselves in a bit of a rut in that top order which put pressure on the middle-order. Ben’s a classical sort of player and he was finding it difficult with the different roles he was being asked to play in t20.

“He’s been going pretty well in four-day cricket and we want that to continue. We have him for at least another year and want good things from him.

“It was more of a tactical decision. We needed something else in that middle-order. He was frustrated with his roles and we felt Jonah was better equipped to be able to fill those roles.”