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...
by afms379 | Mar 23, 2021 | KCHT Blog |
W.G. Grace, still comparatively young and slim David Robertson tells us the story of the Great Cricketer in Kent: More than 150 years after his first appearance in Kent, W.G. Grace remains the most recognised name in the world of cricket, He had a special affection...
by afms379 | Feb 6, 2021 | KCHT Blog |
Charlton Athletic is a team that is deemed to be in Kent when they are playing well, but definitely in South London during their less successful seasons. For much of the 1940s and 1950s, they were certainly in Kent. At that time, there was a very close connection...
by afms379 | Jan 5, 2021 | KCHT Blog |
We all know that Joe Denly once hurt his ankle playing football in a kickabout, causing him to miss a few games, and that Rob Key has legendary keepy-uppy skills, but what of the men who played cricket for Kent and also football at League or even international level?...
by afms379 | Dec 23, 2020 | KCHT Blog |
I was browsing, as you do, through my collection of back copies of The Cricketer magazine, and I happened to come across their summary of Kent’s 1930 season, a year that was rather overshadowed by the astonishing batting of the new 22-year-old Australian phenomenon,...
