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Surrey County Cricket Club (Surrey CCC) is a first-class club in county cricket, one of eighteen in the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Surrey, including areas that now form South London. Teams representing the county are recorded from 1709 onwards; the current club was founded in 1845 and ...
The club is one of the first-class counties competing in the County Championship and its matches are classified as first-class cricket. [1] It has been classified as a List A team since the beginning of limited overs cricket in 1963 [2] and classified as a top-level Twenty20 team since the inauguration of the Twenty20 Cup in 2003. [3]
The first recorded inter-county match took place in 1709 between Kent and Surrey. [3]Surrey teams held first-class status throughout the 18th century, depending on the quality of their opponents, largely due to the Chertsey Cricket Club and famous patrons such as Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville.
The club is based in Kennington (formerly part of the county of Surrey). It was founded in 1845 after securing a lease on The Oval for its use as a cricket field. Surrey played their first first-class cricket match in 1846 against Marylebone Cricket Club and have gone on to win the County Championship on 21 occasions (plus one shared), a figure ...
The Oval in Kennington has played host to the club's first home fixtures in all three formats of the game; in first-class cricket in 1846 against the Marylebone Cricket Club; in List A cricket in 1964 against Gloucestershire; and in Twenty20 cricket against Middlesex in 2003. Surrey have played home matches at fifteen grounds, but have played ...
The Surrey Championship is a cricket organisation in Surrey running 6 divisions for 1st & 2nd XI cricket, 4 for 3rd XI and 4 for 4th XI. Since 2000 it has been a designated ECB Premier League . [ 1 ]
Cheam Cricket Club Ground is a cricket ground in Cheam, London (formerly Surrey). The first recorded match on the ground was in 1940, when Cheam played London Counties . [ 1 ] Cheam CC was one of the founding members of the Surrey Championship and the club was established in 1864.
He has represented England in all formats and was the captain of Surrey County Cricket Club between 2015 and 2017. [2] In October 2021, Batty retired from playing cricket and became a member of the coaching team at Surrey. [3] He is the younger brother of former Yorkshire and Somerset off-spinner Jeremy Batty.