by afms379 | Jun 23, 2025 | KCHT Blog
2. John Deedes Playing alongside John Willes in that match at Lord’s, if only for a few balls before Willes rode off in high dudgeon, was John Deedes, the second man in our chain of Kent cricketers. John Deedes, a right-handed batsman of modest success, is perhaps the...
by afms379 | Jun 3, 2025 | KCHT Blog
To begin at the beginning – that would be good, if only we could. Do we start with the shepherds playing an ancestor of cricket on the weald in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or do we start with the first county match, Kent v Surrey at Dartford in 1709, or...
by afms379 | May 13, 2025 | KCHT Blog
At the Annual General Meeting of the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust, held on 10 May at the Spitfire St. Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, the chair made his annual statement as follows: “I am happy that I can report on another interesting and invigorating year for the...
by afms379 | Feb 23, 2025 | KCHT Blog
The other day I stumbled across the scorecard of a match played in 1953 – Kent v Surrey at Blackheath, on July 11th, 13th and 14th. Match drawn. On the surface just another drawn county match, but a little research showed there was a lot going on just below the...
by afms379 | Dec 4, 2024 | KCHT Blog
At the start of the 2024 season, the ECB decided to experiment with two types of cricket ball, Kookaburra and Duke’s, so that English cricketers could get used to the Kookaburra ball which is widely used around the world, as opposed to the Duke’s ball, which is only...
