KCHT Chair’s Statement at AGM 2025

KCHT Chair’s Statement at AGM 2025

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...
KCHT Chair’s Statement at AGM 2025

Purple Patches and Dying Careers

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...
KCHT Chair’s Statement at AGM 2025

THE CRICKET BALLS OF KENT

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...
KCHT Chair’s Statement at AGM 2025

A Recent Acquisition

This article appeared in the Christmas 2019 edition of Inside Edge, the journal of the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust. From now on, we will reprint several of the most interesting articles from Inside Edge, to give a flavour of the range of activities and interests of...
KCHT Chair’s Statement at AGM 2025

A Cricketer’s Life

On Thursday 11th July 2024 Kent County Cricket Club hosts the 3rd match in England Women’s Cricket’s IT20 series against New Zealand. Shirley Taylor, who now lives at Ash in East Kent, spent much of her life involved with women’s cricket, and has shared some of her...