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251:". The ACS calls the match "Sir H. Mann v S. Amherst". 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". 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. The guest players in this match were 232:, 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". 50:
in the mid 19th century. West Kent (or West of Kent) teams have been recorded from 1705, but there is no known record of an East Kent team until 1781. There were seven major matches from 1781 to 1790 in which teams of this type faced each other, although there is doubt about the match titles with
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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
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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
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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. Sir Horatio Mann became
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The earliest known match involving an "East Kent" team is one played against West Kent at Sevenoaks Vine on 20 and 21 June 1781. The question of nomenclature arises here because, with at least three
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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").
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to support the Canterbury club, the two often being known as the East Kent and West Kent clubs respectively. The two clubs amalgamated in 1870 to form the modern day Kent County Cricket Club.
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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
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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.
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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.
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joining Small, Lamborn, Sueter, Bedster, Mann and Stevens. Dorset's West Kent XI won both matches, the first by 10 wickets and the return by 106 runs.
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on 7 August 1705, played at a place called "Maulden" in the primary source. There is no such place although it is generally believed to refer to
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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
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The earliest known record of a "West Kent" or "West of Kent" team is in a match against
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man and the patron of later West Kent teams, played in this match for the East.
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A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863
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On 25 and 26 June 1783, a match at Sevenoaks Vine involved "West Kent with
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which generally played in matches prior to the foundation of the official
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Part of the confusion around match titles comes from the ways in which
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from 8 to 11 August. This also featured guest players with Surrey's
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three weeks later. In 1859 a second county club was formed at
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West Kent cricket team
cricket
English county
Kent
Kent County Cricket Club
Canterbury
Beverley Cricket Club
All-England
Maidstone
Chislehurst Cricket Club
Chatham Cricket Club
Town Malling
Maidstone
Sevenoaks Vine
a Surrey team
wickets
given men
Duke of Dorset's XI
Sir Horatio Mann's XI
John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset
Sir Horatio (Horace) Mann
John Small
Richard Aubrey Veck
Lamborn
Hambledon
Hampshire
Noah Mann
Tom Sueter
Chertsey
William Bedster

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