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,...
by afms379 | Sep 14, 2020 | KCHT Blog |
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...
by afms379 | Sep 3, 2020 | KCHT Blog |
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...
