Jake Lintott and Harry Finch enjoyed memorable days out at the Kia Oval as Kent Spitfires crushed Surrey by eight wickets in the Vitality Blast.

Lintott’s left-arm wrist spin claimed three for 19 to spearhead a fine all-round bowling performance by Kent, before Finch’s 64 not out led the Spitfires home. And captain Sam Billings also had fun with a quickfire unbeaten 42 as Kent eased to 118 for 2 in reply to Surrey’s 116 all out, winning with six overs to spare.

Finch and Billings added an unbroken 89 for the third wicket after both Daniel Bell-Drummond and Zak Crawley had fallen cheaply in the six-over powerplay.

Bell-Drummond was yorked by Tom Lawes and Crawley skied Reece Topley to mid-off, but by then Finch had already signalled his intentions by taking a four and a beautifully-struck six off Tom Curran.

In all Finch faced 42 balls, hitting that six and eight fours, while Billings struck Lawes for three fours in an over and hit six in total from 28 balls in what was only Kent’s second Blast win against Surrey in their last nine meetings.

Tom Curran was a lone threat with the bat for Surrey, his 32 off 21 balls featuring a six and three fours.

Surrey’s innings got off to a bad start, with Will Jacks splicing a simple catch to cover to go for a duck from the last ball of Keith Dudgeon’s impressive opening over, which cost just a single.

It set the tone for what was to come, with Kent’s bowling and fielding keeping up the pressure on a Surrey batting line-up that simply could not cast off the shackles.

Ollie Pope swivel-pulled two fours in Dudgeon’s next over but on 10 drove Matt Milnes to mid-on and when Sam Curran fell mishitting a Lintott long hop in the seventh over it did seem that everything was going Kent’s way.

Curran, the Surrey captain, had extra cover driven Milnes for four and then launched Dudgeon for an extraordinary short-armed six over long-on. But, from 40 for 2 after the powerplay, the innings fell away once Curran was brilliantly held inches from the turf by Finch, diving forward as he ran in from deep midwicket.

Jason Roy, who had laboured 21 balls for 18, clubbed Lintott to mid-on – the bowler’s five dot balls to Laurie Evans then completing a wicket maiden – and at halfway Surrey were 53 for 4.

That soon became 53 for 5, Evans hitting a full toss from Lintott to deep midwicket, and only a four and big six from Tom Curran in Lintott’s final over spoiled his figures a little.

From 97 for 5 after 15 overs the Surrey innings petered out as Curran skied to mid-off and Dan Lawrence was caught on the ropes for 16 aiming to club Fred Klaassen for six.

Jordan Clark was run out for 4, after being sent back by Lawes, and Surrey’s day was summed up from the next ball when bowler Klaassen put down a fiercely-struck shot by Lawes but reacted quickly to run out non-striker Topley, who was backing up.

Lawes, who did scoop Klaassen for six over fine leg, was left 13 not out when last man Yousef Majid hit Dudgeon to mid-on in the final over.