Early Career
As a teenager Godfrey Evans was a good all-round sportsman, gaining his colours and captaining the cricket, football and hockey teams at Kent College, Canterbury. He was also a very good boxer winning all his amateur and professional fights, but at the age of 17 was forced to choose between cricket and boxing by the Kent committee
He made his Kent debut on 22 July 1939 against Surrey at Blackheath. He made 8 in the first innings as the match ended in a draw. World War 2 interrupted his career but a strong first season back in 1946 earned him a Test call-up.
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