by afms379 | Jun 29, 2020 | KCHT Blog |
I have been far too slow to comment on the recently published book by Howard Milton and Peter Francis, entitled Kent County Cricket Grounds, with the enticing subtitle, 150 Years Of Cricket Across The Garden of England. Let me say at the outset that this is a...
by afms379 | Jun 10, 2020 | KCHT Blog |
Whenever I find it a bit hard to drop off – a rare occasion, I must admit – I like to amuse myself until sleep overtakes me by selecting different cricket elevens, according to whatever strange criteria I may decide on at the time. The other night, I began wondering...
by afms379 | May 25, 2020 | KCHT Blog |
John Drew writes: Last autumn, my cousin Richard and I – our grand-uncle, on the unimpeachable testimony of his daughter, being the last man to bowl out W.G. Grace – had a couple of days out on the Downs in search of 17th century Kentish cricket. Could we...
by afms379 | May 21, 2020 | KCHT Blog |
DAVID ROBERTSON writes: When I read the previous post I was especially attracted to the juxtaposition of the two principal characters, Walter Monckton (as he was in his early days) and the relatively unknown David Jennings who, as the writer acknowledges, may well...
by afms379 | May 12, 2020 | KCHT Blog |
This is the story of two cricketers from Kent, whose paths crossed briefly, but whose lives then went in very different directions – one to wealth, fame and power, and the other to an early death. An email pinged into my in-box the other day, from somebody wanting to...
by afms379 | Apr 23, 2020 | KCHT Blog |
My blog yesterday about the batting skills of Norman Graham and Kevin Jarvis prompted Charlie Rowe to share a few memories of both batsmen. C.J.C. Rowe, you will remember, was capped by Kent on the same day in 1977 as Kevin Jarvis and Richard Hills, and has gone on to...
