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Kent County Cricket Club
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One-day Name:	Kent Spitfires
Coach:	Graham Ford
Captain:	Robert Key
Overseas Player(s):	Yasir Arafat
Founded:	1806
Home Ground:	St Lawrence Ground
Capacity:	15,000
First-class debut:	Sussex
	in 1825
	at Hove
Championship wins:	7 (including 1 shared)
Pro40 wins:	5
FP Trophy wins:	2
Twenty20 Cup wins:	1
Official Website:	Kent CCC

Kent County Cricket Club is one of the 18 first class county cricket clubs which make up the English domestic leagues, representing the county of Kent. The county's limited overs team is called the Kent Spitfires.

The county plays most of its home matches at the St. Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, but also plays some home matches at the County Cricket Ground, Beckenham, and the Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells.

Contents 1 Honours 2 Records 3 History 3.1 Pre-1840 3.2 Post-1840 4 Players with most first-class appearances 5 Club captains 6 2008 squad 7 Kent Facts and Feats 8 References 9 External sources 10 Bibliography

[edit] Honours

Kent have won the County Championship on seven occasions, whilst also sharing one further title with Middlesex in 1977^[1].

Champion County[2]: 3 1843, 1847, 1849 County Championship: 7 1906, 1909-10, 1913, 1970, 1977 (shared), 1978 Friends Provident Trophy[3]: 2 1967, 1974 Pro40[4]: 5 1972-73, 1976, 1995, 2001 Twenty20 Cup: 1 2007 Benson & Hedges Cup: 3 1973, 1976, 1978

Second XI honours Second XI Championship: 8 1961, 1969-70, 1976, 1987 (shared), 2002, 2005-06 Second XI Trophy: 1 2002 Minor Counties Championship: 2 1951, 1956

[edit] Records

Most first-class runs for Kent Qualification - 20000 runs [1] Player Runs Frank Woolley 47868 Wally Hardinge 32549 Les Ames 28951 James Seymour 26818 Arthur Fagg 26070 Colin Cowdrey 23779 Bill Ashdown 22309

Most first-class wickets for Kent Qualification - 1000 wickets [2] Player Wickets Tich Freeman 3340 Colin Blythe 2210 Derek Underwood 1951 Doug Wright 1709 Frank Woolley 1680 Arthur Fielder 1150 Alec Hearne 1018

[edit] History

[edit] Pre-1840

Kent, jointly with Sussex, is the birthplace of cricket. It is widely believed that cricket was invented by children living on the Weald in Saxon or Norman times. The game's earliest tentative reference, re creag in 1300, relates to Newenden in Kent.

Further information: History of cricket to 1696

The first definite mention of cricket in Kent concerned a match at Chevening in 1610 between teams from the Weald and the Downs.

Cricket became established in Kent during the 17th century and the earliest village matches took place before the English Civil War. It is believed that the earliest county teams were formed in the aftermath of the Restoration in 1660. In 1705, West of Kent played Chatham at Malling. The first recorded inter-county match took place in 1709 between Kent and Surrey.

Kent had strong teams throughout the 18th century, often challenging All-England. The county had several famous patrons including Lord John Sackville, his son John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset and Sir Horatio Mann. In the latter half of the 18th century, Kent and Surrey were the only counties that could realistically challenge the power of Hambledon.

In the 1822 MCC versus Kent match at Lord’s, John Willes of Kent opened the bowling and was no-balled for using a roundarm action, a style he had attempted to introduce since 1807. Willes promptly withdrew from the match and refused to play again in any important fixture. His action proved the catalyst for the so-called "roundarm revolution".

In 1837 Kent was proclaimed "Champion County" and held the title through most of the 1840s. Mainstays of the Kent team in those years included Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, Nicholas Wanostrocht aka "Felix", Ned Wenman and William Hillyer. William Jeffrey Prowse wrote these famous lines about the Kent side, as part of his poem In Memoriam, Alfred Mynn:

And with five such mighty cricketers, t'was but natural to win,

As Felix, Wenman, Hillyer, Fuller Pilch, and Alfred Mynn.

[edit] Post-1840

On 6 August 1842, formation of the original Kent County Cricket Club took place in Canterbury. The new Kent CCC played its initial first-class match against All-England at the White Hart Ground in Bromley on 25, 26 & 27 August 1842. On 1 March 1859, a substantial reorganisation occurred to create the present Kent CCC.

Kent enjoyed two periods of prolonged success: the first in the years before World War I, when in the space of eight seasons they were county champions four times. The bowling of Colin Blythe and the captaincy of Cloudesley Marsham, and later Ted Dillon were key factors in Kent's decade of success. They remained highly consistent until the 1930s, with high quality players such as Tich Freeman, Frank Woolley, Wally Hardinge and Les Ames all playing at the peak of their career.

Kent did not become successful again until the 1970s, when they claimed ten domestic trophies, including the County Championship title in 1970, 1978 and a shared title in 1977. They also claimed the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1973, 1976, 1978, and the Gillette Cup in 1974. Their success was this time due to the batting of Brian Luckhurst, Asif Iqbal and Colin Cowdrey.

Kent have become well-known for producing high-quality wicket-keepers, and Les Ames, Godfrey Evans, Alan Knott and Geraint Jones have all progressed from the Kent ranks to the English national side.

[edit] Players with most first-class appearances

• Frank Woolley
• Colin Cowdrey
• Derek Underwood
• Wally Hardinge
• Les Ames
• Tich Freeman
• James Seymour
• Alan Knott
• Mike Denness
• Godfrey Evans

Further information: List of Kent cricketers

[edit] Club captains

1871 – 1889 Lord Harris 1890 – 1893 Frank Marchant and William Patterson 1894 – 1897 Frank Marchant 1897 – 1902 Jack Mason 1903 Cuthbert Burnup 1904 – 1908 Cloudesley Marsham 1909 – 1913 Ted Dillon 1914 – 1923 Lionel Troughton 1924 – 1926 Stanley Cornwallis 1927 John Evans 1928 – 1930 Geoffrey Legge 1931 – 1935 Percy Chapman and Bryan Valentine 1936 Percy Chapman, Ian Akers-Douglas and Bryan Valentine 1937 Ronald Bryan and Bryan Valentine 1938 – 1939 Gerry Chalk 1946 – 1948 Bryan Valentine

1949 – 1951 David Clark 1952 – 1953 William Murray-Wood 1954 – 1956 Doug Wright 1957 – 1971 Colin Cowdrey 1972 – 1976 Mike Denness 1977 Asif Iqbal 1978 – 1980 Alan Ealham 1981 – 1982 Asif Iqbal 1983 – 1984 Chris Tavaré 1985 – 1990 Chris Cowdrey 1991 – 1996 Mark Benson 1997 – 1998 Steve Marsh 1999 – 2001 Matthew Fleming 2002 – 2005 David Fulton Matthew Walker acted as official List A captain for the second half of 2005 2006 – present Robert Key [5]

[edit] 2008 squad

The Kent squad for the 2008 season currently consists of (this section could change as players are released or signed):

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Name	Nat	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
Joe Denly		RHB	LS
Rob Key (c)		RHB	RM
Sam Northeast		RHB	OS
Darren Stevens		RHB	RM
Martin van Jaarsveld		RHB	OS	Kolpak player
Matt Walker		LHB	RM
All-rounders
Azhar Mahmood		RHB	RFM	Holds British passport
Alex Blake		LHB	RMF
Neil Dexter		RHB	RM
Justin Kemp		RHB	RMF	Kolpak player
Ryan McLaren		RHB	RMF	Kolpak player
James Tredwell		LHB	OS
Yasir Arafat		RHB	RMF	Overseas player
Wicket-keepers
Paul Dixey		RHB
Geraint Jones		RHB
Bowlers
Simon Cook		RHB	RMF
James Iles		RHB	RMF
Robbie Joseph		RHB	RF
Amjad Khan		RHB	RF	[6]
Tom Parsons		RHB	RFM
Martin Saggers		RHB	RFM

[edit] Kent Facts and Feats

• George Farmer Bennett of Kent was the first County batsman to be given out by handling the ball. Playing against Sussex at Hove in August 1872 he had not got off the mark when he removed a ball that had lodged in his clothing. Sussex appealed and the umpire was forced to give him out. This unfortunate incident came before the introduction of Law 33 (b) in 1899 which declared such a ball to be 'dead'.

• Left arm spinners Colin Blythe and Frank Woolley bowled unchanged through both innings against Yorkshire on a rain affected pitch at the Mote in Maidstone in 1910. Kent won on their way to a second successive county championship.

• The pavilion at Tunbridge Wells was burned down by Suffragettes in April 1913. Though valuable records were lost the Pavilion was rebuilt in 9 weeks, the funds raised by public subscription.

• Kent ran up 803 for 4 dec against Essex CCC at Brentwood in 1934 with Bill Ashdown scoring 332, Les Ames 202* and Frank Woolley 172. The total took seven hours, with 623 runs alone on the first day.

• Frank Woolley scored over 2,000 runs for Kent in 1935 aged 48. He retired in 1938 with 58,959 runs, 145 centuries, 2066 wickets and 1018 catches to his name.

• Arthur Fagg scored two double centuries in the same match for Kent against Essex CCC at Colchester in 1938.

• Doug Wright, who took over 2000 wickets with his brisk leg breaks and googlies between 1932 and 1957, took his 7th hat trick in 1949, the most ever. He also took 108 wickets for England.

[edit] References

[edit] External sources

• Official Kent County Cricket Club Website
• Official Website of Kent Cricket Board

[edit] Bibliography

• F S Ashley-Cooper, Kent Cricket Matches 1719-1880, Gibbs & Sons, 1929
• Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
• Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, volumes 3-11 (1841-1870), Lillywhite, 1862-79

• Playfair Cricket Annual
• Wisden Cricketers Almanack

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