by afms379 | Sep 17, 2025 | KCHT Blog |
Ned Willsher On 11th and 12th July 1850, Surrey played Kent at the Kennington Oval, and for the first time Alfred Mynn and Edgar Willsher played together for Kent. Fuller Pilch was also playing for Kent, but despite the presence of these three major names in the...
by afms379 | Aug 18, 2025 | KCHT Blog |
Alfred Mynn – The Lion of Kent Alfred Mynn – a big man On 7th and 8th July 1834, a match was played at Lord’s, billed as England versus Kent. England won the game in a canter, by eight wickets. The Kent team contained several players who are still known as giants of...
by afms379 | Jul 7, 2025 | KCHT Blog |
Herbert Jenner From 16th to 18th June 1828, the Marylebone Cricket Club played Kent at Lord’s. Kent won the game by six wickets, and much of the credit for the victory must go to Herbert Jenner, and rather less to John Deedes. Jenner took four of the eight wickets...
by afms379 | Jun 23, 2025 | KCHT Blog |
2. John Deedes Playing alongside John Willes in that match at Lord’s, if only for a few balls before Willes rode off in high dudgeon, was John Deedes, the second man in our chain of Kent cricketers. John Deedes, a right-handed batsman of modest success, is perhaps the...
by afms379 | Jun 3, 2025 | KCHT Blog |
To begin at the beginning – that would be good, if only we could. Do we start with the shepherds playing an ancestor of cricket on the weald in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or do we start with the first county match, Kent v Surrey at Dartford in 1709, or...
by afms379 | May 13, 2025 | KCHT Blog |
At the Annual General Meeting of the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust, held on 10 May at the Spitfire St. Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, the chair made his annual statement as follows: “I am happy that I can report on another interesting and invigorating year for the...
