Xavier Bartlett has secured his Vitality Blast spell with Kent

Cricket Australia has allowed Xavier Bartlett to play the club's first eight T20 matches, after initially preventing him from playing in the County Championship.
Bartlett was initially signed for Kent's first five Championship games, but CA denied him a No Objection Certificate on the eve of the season, a week after awarding the 25-year-old central contract. It was Bartlett's maiden national contract following a breakout Australian summer in which he made his ODI and T20I debuts and headed the Big Bash League wickets tally with 20 for the Brisbane Heat.
Kent moved quickly to replace him, signing South African bowling allrounder Beyers Swanepoel on an all-format contract that runs from May 1 until the end of the season. They were confident that Bartlett would be able to honor the initial deal's white-ball clause, which included at least eight Blast games. That's now been confirmed.
CA are reasonably wary about Bartlett's workload, particularly in first-class cricket. He appeared in only three Sheffield Shield matches for Queensland after recovering from a back stress fracture acquired while playing club cricket in England the previous summer. He is also expected to land a deal in Major League Cricket, which begins on July 4. Though he is unlikely to join Australia's T20 World Cup team, he is a strong contender for the country's limited-overs tour of England this September.
Bartlett will join Swanepoel and fellow Australian seamer Wes Agar as Kent's three overseas options for the Blast season, which begins on May 31 against Middlesex in Chelmsford. Only two are allowed in any given playing XI.
In a statement issued by Kent on Tuesday, director of cricket Simon Cook stated: "We've been working extremely hard with Cricket Australia to ensure that Xavier can join us in some capacity this season, and we're really pleased to have secured his services for eight matches of our T20 campaign."

"He is hot property right now and fully deserves his new central contract with Australia." I know Spitfires fans all over the world will be ecstatic that the BBL's leading wicket-taker this winter will be wearing a Kent shirt in June."