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Kent County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Kent. Its limited overs team is called the Kent Spitfires. more...

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The club plays most of its home games at the St. Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, Kent. The club also plays some games around the county at:

The Mote Cricket Club, Maidstone, Kent; Beckenham Cricket Ground, Beckenham, London; The Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells, Kent;

In the 2005 season, Kent finished fifth in Division One of the County Championship while the Spitfires were eighth in the Totesport (now PRO40) League Division Two.

Honours

Champion County (9) - 1828, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1847, 1849; County Championship (7) - 1906, 1909, 1910, 1913, 1970, 1977, 1978; shared (1) - 1977; Gillette/NatWest/C&G Trophy (2) - 1967, 1974; Sunday/National League (5) - 1972, 1973, 1976, 1995, 2001; Twenty20 Cup (0) -; Benson and Hedges Cup (3) - 1973, 1976, 1978;

Second XI honours

Second XI Championship (7) - 1961, 1969, 1970, 1976, 2002, 2005, 2006; shared (1) - 1987; Second XI Trophy (1) - 2002; Minor Counties Championship (2) - 1951, 1956;

Earliest cricket

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.

See : 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 Philip 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\".