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...
