by afms379 | Sep 19, 2022 | KCHT Blog |
The sad death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II means that after seventy years there is a new monarch on the throne. It also reminds cricket followers that a huge number of top cricketers played their entire careers in the Elizabethan Age. Great players like Ian...
by afms379 | Aug 24, 2022 | KCHT Blog |
This has been an exciting summer for both Kent cricket and BBC Television, especially their Antiques division. I qualify for Kent CCC’s Antiques division, and was very excited that the BBC brought both the Antiques Roadshow and the Celebrity Antiques Road Trip to...
by afms379 | Jul 11, 2022 | KCHT Blog |
We have recently had donated to the Kent collections a number of photographs dating back to the first and second decades of the last century, all of which show proud cricketers staring back at the camera lens, either before or after their game. The common denominator...
by afms379 | May 25, 2022 | KCHT Blog |
The other day, a 51 year old man named Richard Scott broke a world record by sitting continuously on a playground swing for 36 hours. Before you begin to ask a) why? and b) what’s it got to do with cricket?, let me quickly add that this epic world record was set at a...
by afms379 | Apr 28, 2022 | KCHT Blog |
Kent has never had much of a reputation for producing fast bowlers. Spin bowlers – yes, definitely; medium pacers – certainly, but out and out genuine fast bowlers, not so many. Unlike Yorkshire, Notts or Derbyshire who reputedly just had to whistle down a mine shaft...
