THE HSBAKPIODIFE SUCCESSION

THE HSBAKPIODIFE SUCCESSION

Sam Billings, the current HSBAKPIODIFE Sam Billings hit 118 in a losing cause for England against Australia in the first of three ODIs at Old Trafford the other day, and statisticians noticed that this was the first one day international hundred made by a Kent player...
THE HSBAKPIODIFE SUCCESSION

THE HSBAKPITFE SUCCESSION

At the Ageas Bowl on the second day of the Third Test against Pakistan, Zak Crawley completed his innings of 267, to beat the Highest Score By A Kent Player In Tests For England (HSBAKPITFE). It was a magnificent achievement, the first of many we hope, and I think we...
THE HSBAKPIODIFE SUCCESSION

Kent Cricket Heritage Trust AGM 2020

The KCHT Annual General Meeting, which was to have been held on 22 May, after close of play on the first day of the Essex match, was, for obvious reasons postponed. We were finally able to hold it via the magic of Zoom, on Monday evening, 24th August. There was a...
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THE HAT-TRICK MAN

I have played cricket at school, club and village level for over fifty years, and have fooled hundreds of batsmen into giving up their wickets to my own peculiar brand of left arm filth. However, in all that time and all those games, I have only once taken a...
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KENT COUNTY CRICKET GROUNDS

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...
THE HSBAKPIODIFE SUCCESSION

KENT’S GREATEST (WITH THREE INITIALS)

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...