Cricket  Tour
Kent (1971)

We pedalled into sun-drenched Seasalter in our brand new two horse power minibus on Sunday 4th July with our previously scheduled matches having been reduced to three. We met Mr. Dixon in Faversham, and spent the afternoon in Canterbury.

On Tuesday our captain Newing won the toss, and elected to bat against Canterbury Technical High School. Bond and Harris put on 59 for the first wicket, when Harris was out for 51. The middle order collapsed and we were all out for 144. Attacking bowling dismissed Canterbury for 90.

Borden Grammar School were bowled out for 93. The outstanding feature of our reply was the partnership of Haynes and Tricklebank who put on 42 runs in 28 minutes. We won by 5 wickets.

Simon Langton Grammar School, declared at 161 for 4 with two batsmen reaching half-centuries. Our reply was long drawn out and devoid of runs, and the match was saved at the end of the day at 73 for 9.

We left Canterbury on Friday evening, and arrived back at midnight. Our many thanks go to Messrs. Clarkson and Dixon, and to the skipper for a highly enjoyable and successful tour.

A. K. W. PARFITT, K. A. HARRIS