Kent Cricket

Kent County Cricket Club are one of the 18 first class county county cricket clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, currently competing in Division Two of the County Championship. Kent play the majority of their home games at the Spitfire Ground in Canterbury.

Alongside Sussex, Kent are widely regarded as one of the birthplaces of cricket, with the club originally founded in 1806. The county enjoyed significant success throughout their early years, and the formation of the original Kent County Cricket Club was formally established in 1842. Kent CCC played their maiden first-class match against All-England at the White Hart Ground in Bromley in August 1842.

In the run up to the first World War, Kent were the county's dominant team, winning four county championship titles in eight years, with the bowling of Colin Blythe and the captaincy of Cloudesley Marsham and Ted Dillon essential to Kent's decade of success.

Kent had to wait until the 1970s before their next period of success, claiming ten domestic trophies during the decade, including the County Championship title in 1970, 1978 and a shared title in 1977. The county also lifted the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1973, 1976, and 1978, also winning the Gillette Cup in 1974. Much of the team's success during this time was due to the batting of Brian Luckhurst, Asif Iqbal and Colin Cowdrey.

In 2007, Kent won the Twenty20 Cup for the first time, defeating Sussex in the semi-finals and Gloucestershire in the final. A year later and Kent were relegated from the First to the Second Division of the County Championship for the first time in their history. 

England bowler James Tredwell is Kent's current captain, and former West Indian all-rounder Jimmy Adams has been the club's head coach since the beginning of 2012, leading the county to a third place finish in Division Two in his first season in charge. 

Frank Woolley is Kent's all-time leading run scorer with 47,868 scored between 1906 and 1938, with Tich Freeman's 3,340 wickets a record that has stood since 1936. 
Among the numerous players Kent have provided England with over the years, there have been a large number of high-quality wicket-keepers, with Les Ames, Godfrey Evans, Alan Knott, Paul Downton and Geraint Jones all coming through the Kent ranks and going on to represent the England Test side. 

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