Coach Mark Robinson has warned Sussex's rivals: Our season has only just started.

The county recovered from their annual mauling at Edgbaston last week to start their FP Trophy defence with victory over Somerset on Sunday.

And Robinson is convinced the 38-run win at Taunton is an early turning point in their season.

Sussex hope to complete a Championship double over Kent at Canterbury starting tomorrow, having beaten them by eight wickets in the season-opener a fortnight ago.

Robinson said: "For the first time this season I am excited rather than concerned. The win on Sunday has given us a base to really get things going. Basically, our season started on Sunday.

"Against Kent the foundations were paper thin even though we won the game comfortably.

"The players were too distracted, albeit for genuine reasons and I knew we weren't right for many reasons outside our control.

"Our preparation hadn't been right. There were injuries and illness, Bob Woolmer's death affecting the Pakistan players, players' wives giving birth - all sorts of things. That continued in the Warwickshire game.

"Luke Wright got injured and Robin Martin-Jenkins came back when he didn't have a lot of cricket under his belt. But the focus is back on us as a team now as opposed to personal form, niggling injuries and even England call-ups.

"On Sunday we concentrated on what we did best and reaped the rewards. For the first time this season I'm excited rather than concerned and we're really looking forward to going to Canterbury."

Jason Lewry should be fit to return to the attack after missing the innings loss to Warwickshire, Sussex's heaviest Championship defeat for seven years.

The left-armer took three wickets in the win over Kent, including captain Rob Key in both innings, but could only bowl 17 overs in the match as he recovered from a virus which severely restricted his pre-seaon preparations.

His inclusion at the expense of Chris Liddle is likely to be the only change although Murray Goodwin was unable to field against Somerset because of a sickness bug and Chris Nash, who made a half-century in the first game against Kent, missed out while he recovered from a sore shoulder.

Kent coach Graham Ford has huge respect for the champions and especially their Pakistan pair Mushtaq Ahmed and Rana Naved.

Mushtaq took his 13th ten-wicket haul for Sussex in last month's win and has taken 91 Kent wickets in Championship games - more than any other county.

Rana, meanwhile, is one short of 100 Championship wickets for the county - and he has played 17 games.

Ford said: "Sussex are a good outfit. Mushtaq is a fantastic competitor who never stops attacking us while Rana is a master of the art of reverse-swing bowling. On the third day at Hove he had it boomeranging. There are definitely lessons from the game we have to learn."

Kent will be boosted by the arrival of South African all-rounder Andrew Hall, who will play his first game of the season after returning from the World Cup.