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,...
by afms379 | Dec 3, 2020 | KCHT Blog
6th December 2020 marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Kent County Cricket Club, a fact that we have been trying to celebrate all year, but Covid got in the way. There had been teams described as ‘Kent’ playing cricket for over a...
by afms379 | Nov 18, 2020 | KCHT Blog |
On 18th January 2000, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? featured a chap called Peter Lee (definitely not the former Lancashire and England bowler) who battled his way up to the £500,000 mark and then faced the final question which would make him a millionaire. The...
by afms379 | Nov 6, 2020 | KCHT Blog
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...
by afms379 | Oct 20, 2020 | KCHT Blog
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,...
