Heino Kuhn’s third century in four 50-over games helped bring Kent closer to fulfilling his ambition of winning trophies with the club.

Kuhn scored 124 not out in the Spitfires’ nine wicket win at Nottinghamshire in the quarter-final of the Royal London One-Day Cup.

When the 34-year-old joined the club ahead of the 2018 season he set out his goals of winning silverware.

Kuhn said: “I always play to win trophies and this has brought us a little closer. Two more games and I think if we play anywhere close to where we played today and the way we’ve been playing there’s a good chance we could pick up that trophy.

“I’m enjoying playing with the team at the moment and everyone around me is great.

“I'm not a stats guy so don’t know if I’ve ever been in better form but I hope it will continue.”

The South African is the leading run scorer in the competition with 537 from nine games at an average of 89.5.

He has enjoyed a good partnership with Daniel Bell-Drummond opening the batting in the One-Day Cup and put on 194 for the first wicket as Kent chased down their target of 256 with ease.

Joe Denly then came in and helped finish off the job smashing his way to 52 not out from 28 balls.

Kuhn said: “Daniel and I just go out there and enjoy it. I normally go out there and play with intent, if the balls there I will hit it.

“We run hard as well and I think that plays a big part. Batting with Daniel is so nice, we compliment each other and understand each other. The knock he played was brilliant as well.

“I could see it in his (Joe’s) eyes he was ready to take all of them down. He’s an unbelievable player.

“He should play for England. He’s probably one of the best I’ve seen and I’ve seen some very good ones. He can hit every shot in the book and is scoring a lot of runs.”

Harry Podmore took a career-best of 4-57 as Kent restricted Notts to 255-8 from their 50 overs.

At one stage they were struggling on 25-4 after 10 overs after being put into bat by Kent.

Kuhn added: “Harry Podmore and Matt Henry won us the game and the fielding was good as well.

“To restrict them to 250 was unbelievable effort as I think around 300 was par as it was a nice wicket to bat on.

“All the credit must go to the bowlers and fielders. We feel very very happy and it’s been a good day.”

Kent will travel to Worcestershire on Sunday for the semi-final of the competition with a place in the final at Lord’s up for grabs.