Leslie Ethelbert George Ames was a wicket-keeper and batsman for the England cricket team and Kent County Cricket Club. In his obituary,Wisden described him as the greatest wicket-keeper-batsman of all time. He is the only wicket-keeper-batsman to score a hundred first-class centuries.
Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Kent teams have played top-class cricket since the early 18th century,and the club has always held first-class status. The current Kent County Cricket Club was formed on 6 December 1870 following the merger of two representative teams. Kent have competed in the County Championship since the official start of the competition in 1890 and have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England. The club's limited overs team is called the Kent Spitfires after the Supermarine Spitfire.
Alfred Percy Freeman,known as Tich Freeman,was an English first-class cricketer. A leg spin bowler for Kent County Cricket Club and England,he is the only man to take 300 wickets in an English season,and is the second most prolific wicket-taker in first-class cricket history.
Frank Edward Woolley was an English professional cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club between 1906 and 1938 and for the England cricket team. A genuine all-rounder,Woolley was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm bowler. He was an outstanding fielder close to the wicket and is the only non wicket-keeper to have held over 1,000 catches in a first-class career,whilst his total number of runs scored is the second highest of all time and his total number of wickets taken the 27th highest.
Harold Thomas William Hardinge,known as Wally Hardinge,was an English professional sportsman who played both cricket and association football for England. His professional cricket career lasted from 1902 to 1933 during which he played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club and made one Test match appearance for England. He was described as being "for years ... one of the leading opening batsmen in England".
Darren Ian Stevens is an English cricketer. An all-rounder,he bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium-pace. Since his debut in first-class cricket he has played county cricket for Leicestershire and Kent,as well as featuring for the England Lions and winning the Bangladesh Premier League with both Dhaka Gladiators and Comilla Victorians. Stevens was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in the 2021 edition of the almanack.
Frederick Gerald Hudson Chalk,born Gerald Frederick Hudson Chalk and known as Gerry Chalk,was an English amateur cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for Oxford University,Kent County Cricket Club and MCC between 1931 and 1939,captaining both Oxford and Kent. Chalk died in 1943,shot down over northern France whilst serving as a Spitfire pilot in the Royal Air Force.
Sam Alexander Northeast is an English professional cricket who plays for Glamorgan County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman. Northeast made his senior debut in 2007 and until 2017 played for Kent County Cricket Club. He captained the Kent First XI for most of the 2015 season before being formally appointed as club captain in 2016. He captained the side in 2017 before being replaced before the 2018 season after declining to sign a contract extension committing himself to the club in the longer term.
Grahame Selvey Clinton is a former English professional cricketer. He was an opening batsman who played for Kent County Cricket Club from 1974 to 1978 and for Surrey County Cricket Club from 1979 to 1990.
Hesketh Park is a cricket ground in Dartford in Kent. The ground is the home of Dartford Cricket Club,one of the oldest cricket clubs in the United Kingdom. The ground was established at the beginning of the 20th century and has been used as a first-class cricket venue by Kent County Cricket Club.
John Michael Hargreaves is a former English cricketer. Hargreaves was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Gainsborough,Lincolnshire.
Daniel James Bell-Drummond is an English professional cricketer,who plays for Kent County Cricket Club primarily as a batsman. He has represented England at youth level and has played for the England Lions cricket team at senior level.
Samuel William Billings is an English professional cricketer. Billings is a right-handed batsman who fields as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Pembury in Kent and plays for Kent County Cricket Club. He has played for the county since he was eight years old and in October 2017 was appointed as the vice-captain of the team before being appointed as captain in January 2018,replacing Sam Northeast.
George Charles Downton was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club. He played as a wicket-keeper.
Sean Robert Dickson is an English-South African professional cricketer who plays for Durham County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed top-order batsman. Dickson was born in Johannesburg and made his first-class cricket debut in South Africa before signing for Kent in July 2015. Dickson has a British mother and holds a UK passport and so does not count as an overseas player in the Kent squad.
In 2017,Kent County Cricket Club competed in Division Two of the County Championship,the Royal London One-Day Cup and the NatWest t20 Blast. In addition,before the start of the English cricket season,Kent competed in the 2016–17 Regional Super50,the List A competition of the West Indian domestic season. This was the first time that any English county had competed in an overseas domestic competition. The invitation to take part in the tournament was largely due to the influence of former West Indian captain Jimmy Adams who had been Kent's Head Coach until September 2016.
Zak Crawley is an English professional cricketer who plays for Kent County Cricket Club. He has played Test cricket and One Day Internationals for the England cricket team.
Garrison Ground 2 was a cricket ground in Gillingham,Kent. The ground,which has also been known as the Royal Engineers Sports Ground and simply the Garrison Ground,was used by Kent County Cricket Club for first-class and List A cricket between 1937 and 1972 and was the home ground of the Royal Engineers Cricket Club until 1961.
Jordan Matthew Cox is an English professional cricketer. He signed his first professional contract with Kent County Cricket Club in October 2018,having joined the county club at age 10,played for them at age-group levels and been a member of the club's academy programme,winning the John Aitken Gray award as the best academy scholar in 2018.
