by afms379 | Mar 20, 2020 | KCHT Blog |
If you take a stroll down the promenade at Hythe, between the fish restaurant and the Imperial Hotel, you will pass a bench which has a small brass plate “dedicated to the cricketing Blaker twins, Barbara A. Hamilton April 1913 – April 2005, and Joan R. Smith...
by afms379 | Feb 20, 2020 | KCHT Blog
This time of year, I am told, is a good time for marmalade-making. Where you get the oranges from in mid-February with the Coronavirus doing its worst, and everybody who isn’t in quarantine trying to limit their carbon footprint, I have no idea, but don’t let me stop...
by afms379 | Jan 10, 2020 | KCHT Blog
Next week, we are going to begin the winter cull of books in the Kent CCC collection. We, in common with all county clubs, have very many cricket books, a lot of which are duplicates or of little relevance to Kent cricket. Every year, we receive books from a variety...
by afms379 | Nov 15, 2019 | KCHT Blog
Sometimes, when I am sitting knee deep in old scorecards or surrounded by slightly tatty copies of the Kent Annual, the thought comes to me, “What am I trying to do?” Occasionally, the answer is that I am helping to sort out the collection that Kent CCC has acquired...
by afms379 | Sep 19, 2019 | KCHT Blog
Kent have just completed the biggest win, by runs margin, in their history, and the fourth biggest ever win in County Championship cricket. Yorkshire, their victims, lost by the astonishing margin of 433 runs. Kent’s previous best was against Northamptonshire at Dover...
by afms379 | Jul 9, 2019 | KCHT Blog
My new book, Stories of Cricket’s Finest Painting: Kent v Lancashire 1906, is published on 10 July. This is the second longest title to any book I have so far written (beaten only by Hyacinth Bucket’s Book of Etiquette for the Socially Less Fortunate, 56...
