by afms379 | Aug 12, 2021 | KCHT Blog |
The club has just been given two team photographs of Chatham Crusaders Cricket Club, dating from 1910 and 1911. The trouble is that we know very little about the club or the players, and would love to know more. The photographs were donated by a lady who sold her...
by afms379 | Aug 2, 2021 | KCHT Blog |
(The views expressed in this blog are not necessarily endorsed by KCCC or KCHT) When Matt Milnes was called up to join Welsh Fire in the Hundred competition, it made me realise a) that I had not known that Mr Milnes had any Welsh connections, and b) that English...
by afms379 | Jul 15, 2021 | KCHT Blog |
The Covid pandemic has created many odd cricketing situations, but – so far – none has been quite as odd as the start of the match at Canterbury, beginning on 11 July 2021, when Kent took on Sussex. The story began the afternoon before, when one of the squad which had...
by afms379 | Jun 28, 2021 | KCHT Blog |
This is the story of Kent’s first cricketing import. Of course, when this particular player moved to Kent from ‘abroad’, there was no Kent County Cricket Club – that was almost a century in the future – and he was also not, in the modern sense of the word, a...
by afms379 | Jun 10, 2021 | KCHT Blog |
The Second Test between England and New Zealand, starting on 10 June at Edgbaston, featured two capped Kent cricketers. Nothing particularly unusual about that you may think, but the two players in question, Zak Crawley and Matt Henry, were on opposite sides. On day...
by afms379 | Apr 19, 2021 | KCHT Blog |
I was looking at an early book on Kent cricket, snappily entitled “Kent Cricket Matches 1719 – 1880”, written by Lord Harris and F.S. Ashley-Cooper, the first great cricket statistician, and published by the county club in 1929. I was actually just dusting some...
