KENT County Cricket Club have introduced a new draft pick system to allocate their professional players to Kent Premier League clubs for the 2007 season.

The new scheme follows discussions between the county club and Kent League officials held at Gore Court Cricket Club near Sittingbourne.

Each of the 10 KPL teams represented at the meeting were allowed a first choice pick from Kent’s 14-man list.

The two newly promoted sides Broadstairs and Lordswood were given the first two choices and the other picks went in reverse order to last season’s league placings, right down to 2006 KPL champions Bromley, who were given final choice.

The process was repeated for the four remaining professionals to decide which clubs might have two allocated professionals.

The results were as follows:

Broadstairs: James Tredwell and Matthew Walker
Lordswood: Joe Denly and Amjad Khan
Tunbridge Wells: Neil Dexter and Min Patel
Bickley Park: Robbie Joseph and Martin van Jaarsveld
Sevenoaks Vine: Simon Cook
Blackheath: Martin Saggers
Gore Court: Ryan McLaren
Beckenham: Rob Key
St Lawrence: Geraint Jones
Bromley: Darren Stevens