by afms379 | Jul 2, 2018 | KCHT Blog |
Sometimes a stone gets turned over almost by accident, to reveal a long forgotten part of Kent cricket history, and names which mean nothing to us now but which a century and a half ago were on everybody’s lips. An article in a recent issue of Trout and...
by afms379 | Jun 9, 2018 | KCHT Blog |
Henry Reed, the Second World War poet, wrote a poem called “Naming Of Parts.” It begins “Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday, We had daily cleaning.” It is a great poem, and it re-emerged from the back of my mind, stored there since the days of my ‘O’ Level...
by afms379 | Apr 28, 2018 | KCHT Blog |
The Kent Cricket Heritage Trust’s AGM will take place on 11th May, in the Chiesman Pavilion after close of play. The Chairman’s Statement has just been issued, as follows: CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2017/18 The Heritage Trust is happy to report another...
by afms379 | Mar 29, 2018 | KCHT Blog |
On television this morning, the local BBC news showed a press conference with Jason Gillespie, newly installed as coach at Sussex. Even though there was a world wide storm raging about the doubtful actions of his fellow Australians Smith, Warner, Bancroft and a piece...
by afms379 | Feb 16, 2018 | KCHT Blog |
I recently spent some time with a dozen of the young players of the Kent Academy. I was not, fortunately, being bowled at in the nets, nor even tossing up a few gentle leg breaks to bolster their confidence as batsmen. We were talking about the heritage of the club,...
by afms379 | Jan 25, 2018 | KCHT Blog |
I need to apologise for a grievous error in my previous blog. I stated, almost unequivocally, that “our President in 1984, Utrick Henry Burton Alexander, known to all as Sandy. Mr. Alexander, a solicitor by profession, was born in China and may well have been the...
