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ALL OUT NOUGHT

I was reading something about the Olympics, and whether or not they would ever allow cricket to be one of the participating sports (my money’s on ‘not’), when my mind switched to Tokyo where they are trying to hold the Games next year, and to the last time they were...
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THE DAY I WON MY COUNTY CAP

I recently thought I’d ask a few of Kent’s stalwarts what they remembered of the day they won their county cap. To those of us for whom winning a county cap is an unattainable dream, we would imagine it was a glorious day, burnt into the memory for all time. And so,...
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THE HSBAKPIODIFE SUCCESSION

Sam Billings, the current HSBAKPIODIFE Sam Billings hit 118 in a losing cause for England against Australia in the first of three ODIs at Old Trafford the other day, and statisticians noticed that this was the first one day international hundred made by a Kent player...
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THE HSBAKPITFE SUCCESSION

At the Ageas Bowl on the second day of the Third Test against Pakistan, Zak Crawley completed his innings of 267, to beat the Highest Score By A Kent Player In Tests For England (HSBAKPITFE). It was a magnificent achievement, the first of many we hope, and I think we...
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Kent Cricket Heritage Trust AGM 2020

The KCHT Annual General Meeting, which was to have been held on 22 May, after close of play on the first day of the Essex match, was, for obvious reasons postponed. We were finally able to hold it via the magic of Zoom, on Monday evening, 24th August. There was a...
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THE HAT-TRICK MAN

I have played cricket at school, club and village level for over fifty years, and have fooled hundreds of batsmen into giving up their wickets to my own peculiar brand of left arm filth. However, in all that time and all those games, I have only once taken a...