by afms379 | Aug 28, 2020 | KCHT Blog |
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...
by afms379 | Aug 7, 2020 | KCHT Blog |
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...
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...
