but failed twice. Kent toured the West Indies with the Australian XI. He played in the supertests, making 9 & 30 in the first, then hitting 109 in a one-day game for Australia. For the second supertest he made 78, the third 7 and 45, 51 & 28, and 40 & 0. Return to traditional cricket Kent had a patchy 1979–80, not making a first class century, but enjoyed an excellent domestic 1980–81 season, scoring 941 runs at 58.81. Highlights included 77, 171 and 68 against Tasmania and 78 and 101 against South Australia. His knock of 41 in the McDonald's Cup Final, helping Queensland win the game, won him Man of the Match Award. Kent was selected in the Australian one day team towards the end of the summer, making scores of 12, 33 and 4. 1981 Ashes Kent was chosen to tour England in 1981. Greg Chappell elected not to tour and Kim Hughes thought at the beginning that Kent was the most likely candidate to replace him at number three. However he failed during the early games and a score of 91 by Trevor Chappell saw him come into contention for the spot. Eventually Chappell was selected, with Kent relegated to 12th man. Kent was 12th man in the famous third test, which England won. He eventually hit form with 92 against Worcestershire (his previous high score had been 27). This earned him selection in the 4th test over Chappell, who was made 12th man. Kent turned out to be one of Australia's best performing batsmen in the second half of the tour, with a consistent string of scores. He made 171 runs, including a fifty as a makeshift opener at the Oval. He made 46 and 10 in the 4th test, 52 and 2 in the fifth and 54 and 7 in the 6th. End of career Kent began the 1981–82 season well with 92 for Qld against the touring Pakistan side. He was selected in the Australian team for the first test against Pakistan in 1981–82 over Graham Yallop and Dirk Wellham. A serious back injury cost him his place however, forcing him to withdraw. He withdrew from cricket for the season then in August 1982 retired altogether. In 64 first-class matches he scored a total of 3567 runs at 36.03 with a best of 171 against Tasmania. He was a fine slip catcher, taking