In the early 1890s, the committee of Hythe Cricket
Club had come up with the idea of a festive Cricket Week.
Accounts of the time pronounced it a great success,
and Hythe Cricket Week became the social event of the year.
It was held regularly in the second week of August,
following Canterbury's County Cricket Week, and the fixture list
consisted of two-day matches between the home side and such teams
as I Zingari, the M.C.C., Oxford Harlequins and the Free Foresters.
