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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 ...
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The club captain leads the team on the field, unless he is on international duty, injured or otherwise unavailable. Surrey's most successful County Championship captain is Stuart Surridge, who won the title in each year of his captaincy in a five-year run stretching from 1952 to 1956. The current captain since his appointment in 2018 is Rory Burns.
Walter Stuart Surridge (3 September 1917 – 13 April 1992) was an English first-class cricketer who captained Surrey County Cricket Club.. Neither a remarkable batsman nor bowler, Surridge was one of the most successful team captains in the history of the County Championship who, when not playing cricket, helped develop his family sports equipment business, Stuart Surridge & Co. [1]
Rory Joseph Burns (born 26 August 1990) is an English cricketer who has played internationally for the England Test cricket team. In domestic cricket, he captains Surrey in first-class and List A cricket. Burns made his Test debut in 2018. He led Surrey to the 2018, 2022, 2023 and 2024 County Championship titles.
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.
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.