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...
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...
