Kent head coach Adam Hollioake says his battery of bowlers have paved the way for their charge up the County Championship Division Two table.

A 49-run victory over Middlesex was their fourth win in their past five Championship games and lifted them into second place.

Keith Dudgeon and Matt Milnes both took seven wickets in the match, with new arrival Hasan Mahmud taking nine on his debut in the previous win over Lancashire.

“They’re looking like a proper unit,” Hollioake told BBC Radio Kent.

“Last year, we were searching all the time, we had a lot of injuries and [were] constantly playing around with our team.

“But this year, we’ve rotated three throughout, of Hassan, Milnes, Dudgeon and [James] Taylor, and we’ve managed to then have a fourth person as an all-rounder. That make-up of the team is really paying off.

“I’d love to say there’s some miracle, genius thing I’ve said in team meetings – that would be an absolute lie. It’s just that winning is contagious and we’ve just got on a roll.

“We’re playing well, we’re very clear with what we want to do and the boys have got confidence from the games before as to how to execute that.”