Our very own Mr John Bowden has been inaugurated into the Wisden Cricket Hall of Fame. What an amazing achievement! Mr Bowden was published in this month's Wisden cricket magazine, which begins,
"Born two short years after organised league cricket first came to Kent in 1971, no player in KCL history has been quite as productive as John Bowden, whose impishly adventurous opening batting has clocked up over 12,000 first XI league runs, including 19 centuries, while his late-blooming left-arm spin has snared 299 top-flight victims “by firing it into the pads”. It has been a glorious 33-year romp around the Garden of England, all but one of which has been at his beloved Sevenoaks Vine."
"John was a lock for the Kent Cricket Board XI, which enabled him to play a handful of List-A fixtures against county opposition, including Shane Warne's Hampshire."
John goes onto say about playing against Shane Warne, "The best day of my cricketing life."
Very well done, John - we are all incredibly proud of you (and very lucky to have you) here at Solefield School!
