First-team skipper Matt Hammond reckons champions St Lawrence & Highland Court’s success this year has been a long time coming.
They secured promotion to the Kent League Premier Division last Saturday, beating Canterbury, while the 2nds - captained by Kit Sims - won their Division 1 title, too, despite a 105-run loss to Canterbury 2nds.
Darren Stevens scored a century against Canterbury while fellow Kent player Harry Podmore was also involved. But Hammond pointed out, apart from those two and Australian overseas Mickey Edwards, much of their first-team squad have played together for a number of years. “It’s been quite an honour to be involved with,” said Hammond. “When you write down our team on paper, it’s not changed too much.
Obviously, having an overseas like Mickey helped. That was an amazing achievement for him to get 50-odd wickets. "But the rest of the team, we have been working on for three or four years.