George Munsey had “a lot of fun” as he delivered an exceptional knock to help lead Notts Outlaws to victory over Kent Spitfires at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury.

He made a barnstorming 82* from just 47 deliveries to help his side to a fourth successive Vitality Blast win and put them joint-top of the North Group.

The visitors chased down 185 in style, with Munsey launching Matt Milnes for his seventh six of the game to seal the result with eight balls to spare.

“That's why you play cricket," Munsey explained. “To try and get the team over the line and create some wins and special memories.

“It was a lot of fun out there, but a lot of tough points to get over. I think we kept winning the key moments, kept putting certain bowlers under pressure, and right the way through, put together lots of partnerships, making it hard for them to keep us down.”

Notts lost two wickets inside the powerplay, and Munsey himself was struggling to get going too.

However, the opening batter strung key partnerships together with Freddie McCann and Tom Moores to fight back into the match.

“I was still trying to figure out how to bat myself,” he joked. “I got off to a slow start, kept hitting the fielders, and I was too invested in trying to find the way and the rhythm of the pitch to worry about the wickets.

“We've got batters all the way down, so I'm very comfortable if guys want to play the way they play, take some risks. The wickets column doesn't really bother me. I have a deep belief in our batting order, so it was all about trying to assess the conditions, wait for the right end, and be really aggressive when the time was right.”

A flurry of wickets at the death kept Kent’s hopes up, but Munsey and Liam Patterson-White didn’t let the pressure of the chase get the better of them and hoisted Kent’s attack over the short boundary to clinch victory.

He made light of targeting the short side, saying, “Well, it [targeting the short side] became the plan when I couldn't score anywhere else.

"When you've got a small boundary and it's with the breeze and the pitch is nice, you can really target where you want to hit the ball and make the bowlers have to go searching a little bit, and I think that was the key today.”

Notts restricted Kent to 184 after electing to field first at the toss. Mohammed Amir impressed on debut with figures of 2/26, but Munsey already knew the seamer had skills.

“I didn't need him to bowl a ball today to know how impressive he is," said the opener.

"He's world-class all around the world. Looking at our bowling and looking at their bowling, they probably assess the conditions a bit quicker than us, but then we pulled it back nicely and were quite tight through the middle."