TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

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...
TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

MORE UFTON THAN KNOTT

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...
TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

GAMBLING: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF CRICKET

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,...
TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

PRESIDENTS AND PLAYERS

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...
TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

THE COMMITTEE ROOM OF DELIGHTS

As we break for Christmas and the New Year holiday, the Committee Room at the Spitfire Ground is still acting as temporary storage for a great deal of cricketing memorabilia which has been nestling undisturbed at the top of the Woolley Stand for many years. I am very...
TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

HIDDEN TREASURES (AND PLENTY OF JUNK)

If ever you are able to go behind the Woolley Stand and go in the door marked ‘Committee Room’, and then climb two flights of stairs to the very top of the inside of the stand, you will find a large, draughty and rather damp area where a vast collection of books,...