by afms379 | Sep 23, 2024 | KCHT Blog |
This article appeared in the Christmas 2019 edition of Inside Edge, the journal of the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust. From now on, we will reprint several of the most interesting articles from Inside Edge, to give a flavour of the range of activities and interests of...
by afms379 | Jun 6, 2024 | KCHT Blog |
On Thursday 11th July 2024 Kent County Cricket Club hosts the 3rd match in England Women’s Cricket’s IT20 series against New Zealand. Shirley Taylor, who now lives at Ash in East Kent, spent much of her life involved with women’s cricket, and has shared some of her...
by afms379 | May 29, 2024 | KCHT Blog |
On Friday 24 May 2024, the Annual General Meeting of the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust was held at the Spitfire Ground, at close of play after the first day of Kent’s championship match against Essex. The report from the chair summed up a year of steady progress...
by afms379 | Mar 6, 2024 | KCHT Blog |
Betty Archdale, England’s first women’s Test captain Helen Elizabeth “Betty” Archdale, of Kent and England, captained the first women’s team to tour Australia and New Zealand, in 1934/35. Born in London on 21 August 1907, she came from a campaigning...
by afms379 | Jan 25, 2024 | KCHT Blog |
The Lawrence Trophy was instituted in 1934 by Sir Walter Lawrence, a successful builder and keen promoter of all sports, and is given to the player who scores the fastest century of the season, “with the object of encouraging brighter cricket and stimulating public...
by afms379 | Sep 10, 2023 | KCHT Blog |
George Kennedy and his gates When the redevelopment of the St Lawrence Ground began over a decade ago, the turnstile gates on the Old Dover Road were among the bits that had to be demolished. They were of no great architectural merit, but when they were first built...
