CHEESMAN OR HODSOLL – KENT’S FIRST CRICKETER?

A BIT MORE MONCKTON BUSINESS

DAVID ROBERTSON writes: When I read the previous post I was especially attracted to the juxtaposition of the two principal characters, Walter Monckton (as he was in his early days) and the relatively unknown David Jennings who, as the writer acknowledges, may well...
CHEESMAN OR HODSOLL – KENT’S FIRST CRICKETER?

THE LAWYER AND THE CORPORAL

This is the story of two cricketers from Kent, whose paths crossed briefly, but whose lives then went in very different directions – one to wealth, fame and power, and the other to an early death. An email pinged into my in-box the other day, from somebody wanting to...
CHEESMAN OR HODSOLL – KENT’S FIRST CRICKETER?

COME IN, NUMBER ELEVEN, YOUR TIME IS NOW

  Big Norman Graham (left) and Kevin Jarvis (right), two of Kent’s better bowlers and lesser batsmen       The 1976 Wisden, in its summary of Kent’s year in 1975, summed up by saying, “Much will depend on the fitness of Graham and the ability...