Kent County Cricket Club part in the competition again in 2018. Kent's main ground is the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury. This ground has been used by the club since 1847 and Kent have played over 500 first-class matches at the ground. It is famous for having a tree, the St Lawrence Lime, on the playing field. The original tree, around which the ground was built, was broken in two by high winds in January 2005 and replaced by a smaller replacement lime tree later in the same year. The ground hosts the annual Canterbury Cricket Week, the oldest cricket festival in the world.
I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground stay away from the train line/ She said that all the railroad men/ Just drink up your blood like wine" on his song "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again" on the album "Blonde on Blonde", recorded in 1966. The song is mentioned by Salman Rushdie's character Ormus in his work, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". In his book "", the author Greil Marcus writes of Lunsford's recording of the song: Now what the singer wants is obvious, and almost impossible to comprehend. He wants to be delivered from his life and to be changed into a creature