WE NEED A LIBRARY

WE NEED A LIBRARY

Next week, we are going to begin the winter cull of books in the Kent CCC collection. We, in common with all county clubs, have very many cricket books, a lot of which are duplicates or of little relevance to Kent cricket. Every year, we receive books from a variety...
WE NEED A LIBRARY

WHAT’S THE POINT OF THE PAST?

Sometimes, when I am sitting knee deep in old scorecards or surrounded by slightly tatty copies of the Kent Annual, the thought comes to me, “What am I trying to do?” Occasionally, the answer is that I am helping to sort out the collection that Kent CCC has acquired...
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THE HISTORY MEN

Kent have just completed the biggest win, by runs margin, in their history, and the fourth biggest ever win in County Championship cricket. Yorkshire, their victims, lost by the astonishing margin of 433 runs. Kent’s previous best was against Northamptonshire at Dover...
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A SHAMELESS PLUG

  My new book, Stories of Cricket’s Finest Painting: Kent v Lancashire 1906, is published on 10 July. This is the second longest title to any book I have so far written (beaten only by Hyacinth Bucket’s Book of Etiquette for the Socially Less Fortunate, 56...
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KENT AND THE WORLD CUP

The ICC World Cup is going on all around us (or at least, in those parts of the country not being flooded out by the glorious June weather), but there are no Kent players involved, unless you count Matt Henry with New Zealand, who has, after all, got his Kent cap. Joe...