The Kent County Cricket Club Roll of Honour
This ‘Roll Of Honour’ was sung by King’s College Canterbury choir at the celebration in Canterbury Cathedral of the 150th anniversary of the formation of Kent CCC in 1870, a few days before Covid shut the country down. The words were sung as a plainsong chant, so possibly do not read very rhythmically. They nevertheless represent a fairly complete list of the greatest names in Kent cricket history.
MANY men and women have represented Kent: with distinction on the cricket field
We begin with Fuller Pilch, and Alfred Mynn – the Lion of Kent: and George Harris, the fourth Baron Harris of Seringapatam and Mysore, and of Belmont in the county of Kent.
The Honourable Ivo Bligh, afterwards Lord Cobham, William Harry Patterson, Nutty Martin, Alec Hearne: Cloudesley ‘Slug’ Marsham, Cuthbert ‘Pinky’ Burnup, Fred Huish, Jack Mason and Ted Dillon
The great Frank Woolley, James Seymour, Arthur Fielder, Charlie Blythe, Ken Hutchings: Wally Hardinge, Tich Freeman and Percy Chapman
Charles Father Marriott, Jack Bryan, Lord Cornwallis, Bryan Valentine: not forgetting his sister Carol Valentine or Joan and Barbara, the Blaker Twins
Bill Ashdown, Leslie Ames, ‘Hopper’ Levett, Betty Archdale, and Geoffrey Legge: Leslie Todd, Doug Wright, Arthur Fagg, Godfrey Evans, and of course Fred Ridgway
Bob Wilson, Colin Cowdrey, Peter Richardson, Alan Ealham, Mike Denness and Brian Luckhurst; ‘Deadly’ Derek Underwood, Alan Knott, Chris Cowdrey and Asif Iqbal
John Shepherd, Chris Tavaré, Bob Woolmer, Graham ‘Picca’ Dilley, Graham Johnson: Mark Benson, Neil Taylor, Carl Hooper, Richard Ellison and Dean Hadley
Matthew Fleming, Geraint Jones, Rob Key, Darren Stevens and Lottie Edwards; Sam Billings, Tammy Beaumont, and to bring us up to date Joe Denly and Zak Crawley.
Many men and women have represented Kent: with distinction on the cricket field.
