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...
by afms379 | Jun 14, 2019 | KCHT Blog |
The ICC World Cup is going on all around us (or at least, in those parts of the country not being flooded out by the glorious June weather), but there are no Kent players involved, unless you count Matt Henry with New Zealand, who has, after all, got his Kent cap. Joe...
by afms379 | May 22, 2019 | KCHT Blog |
A couple of weeks ago I was at the Polo Farm ground near Canterbury to watch the start of the Women’s county season, as Kent took on Nottinghamshire. To be perfectly honest, the thing that drew me there most was the fact that my granddaughter was among the Kent...
