{"id":1470,"date":"2024-04-10T18:07:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T18:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/?page_id=1470"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:41:05","slug":"the-kentish-cricketers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/the-kentish-cricketers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kentish Cricketers &#8211; John Burnby (1773)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1470?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>So high was Kent\u2019s standing that in 1773 John Duncombe wrote<a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/john-duncombe-surry-triumphant-or-the-kentish-mens-defeat\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1471\"> <em>Surrey Triumphant: or, the Kentish Men&#8217;s Defeat. A New Ballad. Being a Parody upon Chevy-Chase<\/em><\/a>, to celebrate an unexpected victory over the team of the century. Later that year came the riposte. A Canterbury printer, T. Smith &amp; Son, was employed to print John Burnby\u2019s <em>The Kentish Cricketers: A Poem, By a Gentleman<\/em>.\u00a0Here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So high was Kent\u2019s standing that in 1773 John Duncombe wrote Surrey Triumphant: or, the Kentish Men&#8217;s Defeat. A New Ballad. Being a Parody upon Chevy-Chase, to celebrate an unexpected victory over the team of the century. Later that year came the riposte. A Canterbury printer, T. 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