 Later that same month he hit a second-innings 102 (from number eight) in 70 minutes – despite needing a runner — against Lancashire,
then followed that up with 110 not out and 85 against Free Foresters; in the latter game he also took a career best 4–42.He was picked for the Gentlemen v Players game at Folkestone at the end of the summer, and scored 115.Kimpton's hundred against Lancashire had put him on course for that season's Walter Lawrence Trophy, but Leslie Ames pipped him to the title by two minutes in the very last match of the year.