TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

The Kent Cricket Heritage Trust’s AGM will take place on 11th May, in the Chiesman Pavilion after close of play. The Chairman’s Statement has just been issued, as follows:   CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2017/18 The Heritage Trust is happy to report another...
TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

MORE UFTON THAN KNOTT

On television this morning, the local BBC news showed a press conference with Jason Gillespie, newly installed as coach at Sussex. Even though there was a world wide storm raging about the doubtful actions of his fellow Australians Smith, Warner, Bancroft and a piece...
TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

GAMBLING: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF CRICKET

I recently spent some time with a dozen of the young players of the Kent Academy. I was not, fortunately, being bowled at in the nets, nor even tossing up a few gentle leg breaks to bolster their confidence as batsmen. We were talking about the heritage of the club,...
TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

PRESIDENTS AND PLAYERS

I need to apologise for a grievous error in my previous blog. I stated, almost unequivocally, that “our President in 1984, Utrick Henry Burton Alexander, known to all as Sandy. Mr. Alexander, a solicitor by profession, was born in China and may well have been the...
TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

THE COMMITTEE ROOM OF DELIGHTS

As we break for Christmas and the New Year holiday, the Committee Room at the Spitfire Ground is still acting as temporary storage for a great deal of cricketing memorabilia which has been nestling undisturbed at the top of the Woolley Stand for many years. I am very...