Notts Outlaws defeated Kent Spitfires by four wickets in the first-ever Vitality Blast Crossover match at Canterbury, after an outstanding innings by George Munsey.

Kent posted 184-6 before Munsey smashed an unbeaten 82 from 47 to lead his side home.

The Scot sealed the win with a huge six, with eight balls remaining, to extend the visitors' unbeaten run to four in a row in the Blast.

Notts chose to bowl and Mohammad Amir, signed just yesterday, had Harry Finch lbw to the second ball of the evening.

Zak Crawley hit 27 from 21 balls, but was out to the final ball of the powerplay, hitting Mohammad Ali to Freddie McCann at square leg, while Bell-Drummond looked good until he found Jack Haynes at mid-wicket off the bowling of Olly Stone for 37.

Billings survived an umpire review and what was an almost spectacular relay catch from Stone, but he was ruled to have touched the rope before he shovelled the ball to George Linde.

Wickets were shared around the attack, with Amir the pick of the bowlers on debut with 2-26 from his four overs, while Benny Howell impressed too with 1-25 as the visitors were set 185 to win.

Joe Clarke got off to a good start, hitting Keith Dudgeon for three successive fours before finding Crawley at midwicket to fall for 24.

Milnes then had Haynes caught behind for one, but Munsey reverse-swept Lintott for successive sixes.

Freddie McCann hit 25 from 16 until he drilled Denly to Milnes at cover, but the 13th over was a killer: Munsey hitting 20 off Lintott.

Kent’s hopes flickered when Milnes got two wickets in three balls. Moores went for 20, caught by Bell-Drummond again at cover, before he bowled George Linde for 1.

Fred Klaassen then splayed Benny Howell’s off-stump for two, before Liam Patterson-White almost took Bell-Drummonds hands off and Munsey punished the next ball, a no-ball, for six.

Needing 13 off the last two, Patterson-White pulled Milnes for six into the third floor of the retirement flats, before Munsey, fittingly, clinched it with an astonishing blow over midwicket.

Notts came out on top by four wickets in their first meeting with Kent since a quarter-final at Trent Bridge in 2007.