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East Kent y West Kent fueron títulos otorgados a veces a dos equipos de cricket de sus respectivas áreas del condado inglés de Kent, que generalmente jugaban en partidos antes de la fundación del Club de cricket oficial del condado de Kent a mediados del siglo XIX. Los equipos de West Kent (o West of Kent) se han registrado desde 1705, pero no hay registro conocido de un equipo de East Kent hasta 1781. Hubo siete partidos importantes entre 1781 y 1790 en los que equipos de este tipo se enfrentaron entre sí, aunque hay duda sobre los títulos de los partidos con fuentes que utilizan nombres de equipos diferentes.

El primer Kent Cricket Club se fundó en Canterbury el 6 de agosto de 1842, se formó a partir del Beverley Cricket Club y jugó su primer partido contra All-England tres semanas después. En 1859 se formó un segundo club del condado en Maidstone para apoyar al club de Canterbury, los dos a menudo se conocen como los clubes East Kent y West Kent respectivamente. [1] [2] [3] [4] Los dos clubes se fusionaron en 1870 para formar el actual Kent County Cricket Club. [1] [2] [5]

Teams called East Kent and West Kent played each other twice in 1856 in minor matches. Those two matches are the last known to involve an East Kent team. West Kent became the name of a 19th-century club which played minor cricket only and was for a long time based at Chislehurst Cricket Club, with which it ultimately amalgamated in 1980 as the Chislehurst and West Kent Cricket Club.[6]

Matches[edit]

El registro más antiguo conocido de un equipo "West Kent" o "West of Kent" está en un partido contra Chatham Cricket Club el 7 de agosto de 1705, jugado en un lugar llamado "Maulden" en la fuente principal. No existe tal lugar, aunque generalmente se cree que se refiere a Town Malling cerca de Maidstone . [7] [8] [9] [10] [2] Se desconocen el resultado y los detalles de los equipos. [11] La siguiente mención es un partido el 22 de septiembre de 1769, jugado en Sevenoaks Vine entre West Kent y un equipo de Surrey . El informe original simplemente indica que los portillos se "lanzarán poco después de las 10". [12]

El primer partido conocido que involucró a un equipo de "East Kent" se jugó contra West Kent en Sevenoaks Vine los días 20 y 21 de junio de 1781. La cuestión de la nomenclatura surge aquí porque, con al menos tres "hombres dados" (es decir, jugadores prestados), en cada lado, el partido también se llama Duke of Dorset's XI versus Sir Horatio Mann's XI después de los dos patrocinadores del equipo John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset y Sir Horatio (Horace) Mann . El equipo de "East Kent", el XI de Mann, incluía a John Small , Richard Aubrey Veck y Lamborn de Hambledon y Hampshire . El equipo de "West Kent", el XI de Dorset,presentó a los jugadores de HambledonNoah Mann and Tom Sueter with the Chertsey and Surrey players William Bedster and Lumpy Stevens. Noted Kent players involved in the match include Joseph Miller, William Bullen, William Bowra, Robert Clifford and Thomas Pattenden.[13] Sevenoaks Vine was Dorset's home ground and there was a return match at Bourne Paddock at Mann's Bourne Park House near Bishopsbourne from 8 to 11 August. This also featured guest players with Surrey's William Yalden and Hampshire's James Aylward joining Small, Lamborn, Sueter, Bedster, Mann and Stevens.[14] Dorset's West Kent XI won both matches, the first by 10 wickets and the return by 106 runs.

Part of the confusion around match titles comes from the ways in which Arthur Haygarth records matches. He calls the June match "West Kent with Mann, Sueter & Lumpy versus East Kent with Small, Veck & Lamborn", but then calls the August match "Sir Horace Mann's Side versus the Duke of Dorset's Side". In its "Important Cricket Matches" guide, the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians follows Haygarth by using the abbreviated titles "East Kent with 3 gm v West Kent with 3 gm" for the June match and "Duke of Dorset v Sir H. Mann" for the August match ("gm" meaning "given men").[15]

On 25 and 26 June 1783, a match at Sevenoaks Vine involved "West Kent with Harris, Stevens and Bedster versus East Kent". East Kent won this by 2 wickets. A curious condition of the match was that Lumpy Stevens, generally reckoned the outstanding bowler of the time, "was not to bowl, by agreement". This would have severely handicapped his team, which lost the match, as he was not a good batsman and so, as Haygarth says, "not much use as a given man". Stephen Amherst, who was a Maidstone man and the patron of later West Kent teams, played in this match for the East.[16]

Amherst had become a match organiser by the start of the 1789 season and led his team to a five-wicket victory against that of Mann at Coxheath on 22 and 23 May. A contemporary report in the Maidstone Journal describes the game as "Sir H. Mann with a select eleven of the County against S. Amherst, Esq. and the County at large, for 100 guineas".[17] The ACS calls the match "Sir H. Mann v S. Amherst".[18] However, the next Mann-Amherst match on 29 and 30 June, also at Coxheath, is called "East Kent v West Kent with each side having 4 gm".[18] This follows Haygarth, whose title is "East Kent with Boorman and Four of Hampshire versus West Kent with Four of Surrey". East Kent won by 8 runs and Haygarth confirms Mann and Amherst as respective managers.[14] The guest players in this match were John Boorman, Richard Purchase, John Small, David Harris and Tom Taylor for the East and Billy Beldham, Harry Walker, Tom Walker and John Wells for the West. Apart from a couple of changes in the East Kent lineup, the same teams met again at Coxheath on 4 and 5 August, East Kent winning by 57 runs.[19]

The final match between Amherst's West and Mann's East took place at Bishopsbourne from 7 to 11 September 1790. Haygarth called it "East Kent with Purchase versus West Kent". West Kent won by 130 runs.[20] Sir Horatio Mann became MP for Sandwich in 1790 and reduced his involvement in cricket. The match in September 1790 is the last East Kent v. West Kent match that can be considered a major fixture.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Marsham G (1907) A short history of Kent cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1907. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  2. ^ a b c Kent County Cricket Club Timeline, Kent County Cricket Club. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  3. ^ The history of Kent Cricket: Part 1 – Prehistory, Kent Cricket Heritage Trust. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  4. ^ The history of Kent cricket Part Two - Lord Harris takes charge, Kent Cricket Heritage Trust. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  5. ^ A brief history of Kent, CricInfo. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  6. ^ "CWKCC History". Chislehurst and West Kent Cricket Club. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
  7. ^ Town Malling Cricket Club [TownMallingCC] The Old County Ground in @west_malling #westmalling 191yrs of cricketing history in The Garden Of England @VisitKent @westmallingCEP @west_mallingpc #KentDay, (Tweet), via Twitter, 2018-05-26. Retrieved 2018-05-26.
  8. ^ 300 Years of Cricket at Town Malling, Town Malling Cricket Club. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  9. ^ Read C (2017) 10 reasons you should visit West Malling, Kent Life, 2017-04-24. Retrieved 2017-12-12.
  10. ^ Maun I (2009) From Commons to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750, p. 7. Cambridge: Roger Heavens. ISBN 978-1-900-59252-9.
  11. ^ Waghorn, p. 4.
  12. ^ Buckley, p. 52.
  13. ^ Haygarth, pp. 47–48.
  14. ^ a b Haygarth, pp. 49–50.
  15. ^ ACS, p. 25.
  16. ^ Haygarth, pp. 56–57.
  17. ^ Buckley, p. 135.
  18. ^ a b ACS, p. 27.
  19. ^ Haygarth, p. 96.
  20. ^ Haygarth, pp. 108–109.

Bibliography[edit]

  • ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
  • Buckley, G. B. (1935). Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. Cotterell.
  • Haygarth, Arthur (1862). Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826). Lillywhite.
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