He scored four centuries and played, according to Wisden with "amazing brilliancy"[5] whilst The Guardian described him as "the most brilliant" of Kent's batsmen in a team with very strong batting.

[2][6] Hutchings was selected for the England cricket team to tour Australia in 1907–08, making his Test match debut in December 1907 at Sydney.

[14] His best seasons, other than 1906, were in 1909 and 1910 when Kent won consecutive County Championships,[15] and he was picked for two Ashes Tests in England in 1909.

[5][11] His form failed him in 1912 and he was dropped from the Kent First XI in June and did not play first-class cricket of any kind after the end of the 1912 season.

A. Thomson wrote of him: "Though a crabbed unemotional Northerner, I sometimes think that if one last fragment of cricket had to be preserved, as though in amber, it should be a glimpse of K. L. Hutchings cover-driving under a summer heaven.

[7][19] At the start of World War I he was working for another paper manufacturer in Liverpool and living at Freshfield in Formby.

A restored cross, with the original metal plaque, stands in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, Formby.

[20][24][25] All three of his brothers played cricket for Tonbridge School and served in the war, all being wounded or injured in the process.