15/06/2023
On the eve of the opening Ashes test, 100 Kent schoolchildren will battle for their own taste of cricket glory at Cobham Hall – the original home of the Ashes urn.
Thursday 15th June will see nine Kent schools take part in a Kwik Cricket tournament in the grounds of Cobham Hall, which was once home to English cricket team captain Ivo Bligh. It was to Bligh that the now iconic trophy was first presented in Australia in 1882, and to Cobham Hall that he brought it back, where it sat proudly on the mantelpiece for many years.
