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English basement county, Kent, are led by former international Adam Hollioake, who is concerned for players\u2019 well being.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 1 May 2026<\/span>1 May 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The English cricket club Kent has suspended comments on their official social media accounts, with head coach Adam Hollioake suggesting players\u2019 mental health could be damaged by stinging criticism.<\/p>\n Kent have made a bad start to the season and are currently at the foot of the second and bottom division of the County Championship following three matches.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Their form has led to some cutting online comments from frustrated Kent fans.<\/p>\n Hollioake, in a statement released before Kent\u2019s latest game against Derbyshire, which began at Canterbury on Friday, accepted the team\u2019s performances had not been \u201canywhere near the standards we expect of ourselves\u201d.<\/p>\n But Hollioake, a close friend of former Surrey and England teammate Graham Thorpe, who took his own life in 2024, said he had a \u201cduty of care\u201d to protect the Kent squad.<\/p>\n \u201cThroughout my career in cricket as a player and a coach, I have had to deal with a lot, that\u2019s no secret,\u201d said Hollioake, whose younger brother Ben, also an England all-rounder, was killed in a car crash back in 2002.<\/p>\n Hollioake was also close to former England batsman Robin Smith, who struggled with alcoholism before his death late last year.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve seen in recent times, two players and friends that I played alongside for England, go down a bad path in terms of mental health, and I\u2019ve lost both of them,\u201d the 54-year-old added.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s part of my job, and my duty of care, to make sure that we don\u2019t see that again.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a professional cricket department, alongside our media team, we\u2019ve decided as one that we will be suspending commenting on our official Kent Cricket social media accounts for the time being.<\/p>\n \u201cThis has not been a decision that we\u2019ve taken lightly, and we are in no means stopping people voicing their opinions, but to align with our short-term strategy to allow players and staff to think and play with freedom and clarity, we feel it is a necessary one.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n English basement county, Kent, are led by former international Adam Hollioake, who is concerned for players\u2019 well being. Published On 1 May 20261 May 2026 The English cricket club Kent has suspended comments on their official social media accounts, with head coach Adam Hollioake suggesting players\u2019 mental health could be damaged by stinging criticism. Kent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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