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...
by afms379 | Feb 23, 2025 | KCHT Blog
The other day I stumbled across the scorecard of a match played in 1953 – Kent v Surrey at Blackheath, on July 11th, 13th and 14th. Match drawn. On the surface just another drawn county match, but a little research showed there was a lot going on just below the...
by afms379 | Dec 4, 2024 | KCHT Blog
At the start of the 2024 season, the ECB decided to experiment with two types of cricket ball, Kookaburra and Duke’s, so that English cricketers could get used to the Kookaburra ball which is widely used around the world, as opposed to the Duke’s ball, which is only...
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...
