William Howard Vincent "Hopper" Levett (25 January 1908 –30 November 1995) was an English cricketer who played as a wicket-keeper for Kent County Cricket Club between 1930 and 1947.
Levett was born at Goudhurst in Kent and educated at Brighton College. He played in one Test match in 1934. He was a gentleman farmer from an old Kentish family that owned hop farms. He died at Hastings in Sussex. [1] [2]
Geraint Owen Jones is a former cricketer who played for both England and Papua New Guinea. Born to Welsh parents in Papua New Guinea,between 2004 and 2006 he was the first-choice wicketkeeper for the England cricket team. He later played international cricket for Papua New Guinea from 2012 to 2014. He announced his retirement from first-class cricket in July 2015 following his resignation as the first-class cricket captain of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.
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.
The St Lawrence Ground is a cricket ground in Canterbury,Kent. It is the home ground of Kent County Cricket Club and since 2013 has been known as The Spitfire Ground,St Lawrence,due to commercial sponsorship. It is one of the oldest grounds on which first-class cricket is played,having been in use since 1847,and is the venue for Canterbury Cricket Week,the oldest cricket festival in the world. It is one of the two grounds used regularly for first-class cricket that have had a tree,the St Lawrence Lime,within the boundary.
Martin John Saggers is an English county cricket umpire and a retired English cricketer. He played international cricket for the England cricket team,including appearing in three Test matches and spent the majority of his first-class cricket career at Kent County Cricket Club. Saggers was born in King's Lynn in Norfolk.
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.
Inter-county cricket matches have been played since the early 18th century,involving teams that are representative of the historic counties of England and Wales. Since the late 19th century,there have been two county championship competitions played at different levels:the County Championship,a first-class competition which involves eighteen first-class county clubs among which seventeen are English and one is from Wales;and the National Counties Championship,which involves nineteen English county clubs and one club that represents several Welsh counties.
Bransby Beauchamp Cooper was a member of the Australian cricket team that played the inaugural Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1877. Cooper was born in Dacca in what was then British India in 1844. He played first-class cricket as an amateur in England for Middlesex and Kent County Cricket Clubs before moving to Australia where he played for Victoria cricket team. He was a right hand batsman and wicket-keeper and the first Indian-born cricketer to play Test cricket.
Graham Robert Cowdrey was an English cricketer.
Holcombe Douglas"Hopper" Read was an English cricketer who played in one Test in 1935.
Darren Ian Stevens is an English cricketer. An all-rounder,he bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium-pace. In first-class cricket,he has scored over 16,000 runs and since the age of 35 has taken over 500 wickets and more than 30 five-wicket hauls. Stevens was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in the 2021 edition of the almanack.
Thomas William Spencer was a London-born English first-class cricketer and international umpire. He played 76 matches for Kent either side of World War 2 as an attacking batsman before moving into coaching at Wrekin School. A natural sportman,he also turned out for Fulham,Lincoln City and Walsall at football and claimed to have played four sports professionally,the others being table tennis and boxing. For many years he wintered coaching in South Africa.
Thomas Hopper was an English professional cricketer who played in one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1856. He was christened at Gravesend in Kent on 1 February 1828.
Deshabandu Pinnaduwage Aravinda de Silva is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and captain,who has also played in English county cricket. De Silva was a key member of the Sri Lankan team that won 1996 Cricket World Cup,where he scored a match winning century in the final,that brought Sri Lanka from underdog status to present-day form. He has held various posts in Sri Lankan Cricket after his retirement in 2003.
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.
Harry Zacariah Finch is an English cricketer who plays for Kent County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium-fast. Finch played forSussex between 2013 and 2020 before signing for Kent in 2021,initially on a short-term contract.
Peter Geoffrey Foster was an English businessman and amateur cricketer. He played in 30 first-class cricket matches for Oxford University and Kent County Cricket Club between 1936 and 1946.
Zak Crawley is an English professional cricketer who plays for Kent County Cricket Club. He plays Test cricket for the England cricket team,having also played One Day Internationals for a short period.
Tawanda Sean Muyeye is a Zimbabwean-born professional cricketer who plays for Kent County Cricket Club in England. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm off break bowler.
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