by afms379 | Aug 18, 2025 | KCHT Blog
Alfred Mynn – The Lion of Kent Alfred Mynn – a big man On 7th and 8th July 1834, a match was played at Lord’s, billed as England versus Kent. England won the game in a canter, by eight wickets. The Kent team contained several players who are still known as giants of...
by afms379 | Jul 7, 2025 | KCHT Blog
Herbert Jenner From 16th to 18th June 1828, the Marylebone Cricket Club played Kent at Lord’s. Kent won the game by six wickets, and much of the credit for the victory must go to Herbert Jenner, and rather less to John Deedes. Jenner took four of the eight wickets...
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...
