Surrey County Cricket Club

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Surrey County Cricket Club
founded 1845
Home stadium The oval
capacity 23,500
other stages Woodbridge Road, Guildford
Whitgift School, Croydon
Championship wins 19 + 1 shared
One Day Cup victories FP Trophy : 1
National League : 2
B&H Cup : 3
ECB 40 : 1
RL Cup : 0
T20 Cup victories 1
website http://www.kiaoval.com
As of October 4, 2018

The Surrey County Cricket Club represents traditional Surrey county in the national championships of English cricket .

history

The beginnings

Cricket has been known in Surrey since at least the 16th century. The first first-class match took place in Croydon in 1707, the first game across county borders in 1709 against Kent . The founding of today's County Cricket Club took place on August 22, 1845 in the Horns Tavern in Kennington, London . The same year saw the origins of the Kennington oval, which is still the home of the club today. The first first class match of the CCC took place in May 1846 against the Marylebone Cricket Club .

First successes

Surrey County Cricket Club performance in First Class, One-Day and T20 Cricket in the English National Competitions.

The first high phase began in 1887. First you were named three times in a row to the County Champion, the unofficial forerunner of the County Championship . When the official championship was introduced in 1890 , they were the first winner among eight teams at the time. The victory could be repeated in 1891 and 1892 and after a year only an average season was played, the next two championships took place in 1894 and 1895 . Dominant players of the time were John Shuter , Bobby Abel , Tom Hayward , George Lohmann , Bill Lockwood and Tom Richardson . After these successful years, worse results followed for several years. It was not until 1914 that the last championship before the First World War could be won. The main player in this title win was Jack Hobbs .

Between the wars

After the First World War you could first establish yourself in the first four of the championship, but it was not enough to win the same. Captain at the time was Percy Fender , who, however, had to accept the slipping of the club after 1925. His successor was Douglas Jardine in 1932 , but he also needed until 1938 to lead the team back to the top three teams of the County Championship.

After the Second World War

After the Second World War, it took the team a few years to get back to the top. This was achieved in 1950 when the team shared the championship with Lancashire . This was the beginning of a great dominance. Two years later the next championship succeeded and from then on Surrey won the county championship a total of seven times in a row. Players like the bowlers Alec Bedser , Peter Loader , Jim Laker and Tony Lock and batsmen like Laurie Fishlock , Ken Barrington and Peter May were part of this success. The result was a deep crash from which the team did not recover for a long time. Successes could only be celebrated again at the beginning of the 1970s. In 1971 the County Championship could be won, in 1974 the first one-day title followed with winning the Benson & Hedges Cup . As a result, the club suffered from financial problems that made it difficult to achieve success.

Until today

In the 1980s, Surrey stayed in the top half of the table, but could not win the County Championship. In 1982 they won the only title in the decade with the NatWest Trophy . After a crisis in the early 1990s, the team was able to stabilize in the second half of the decade. The Sunday League was won in 1996 and the Benson & Hedges Cup the following year. In 1999 they won the County Championship again after 28 years. The success could be repeated in 2000 and in 2001 the Benson & Hedges Cup was won a third time. In 2002 the County Championship was won again and the following year both the National League and the Twenty20 Cup were won. This was the last success for the time being, because afterwards financial difficulties again pushed the club into a crisis. In 2005 , the club was relegated to the second division, which was able to win the following year , but it did not establish itself in the first division. Only one-day cricket won another title by winning the Clydesdale Bank 40 in 2011. In 2013 they lost significantly to Northamptonshire in the final of the Twenty20 Cup . In 2015 and 2016 they each qualified for the final of the Royal London One-Day Cup , but had to admit defeat to Gloucestershire and Warwickshire . In the 2018 season , they managed to win the County Championship again after 16 years.

Stadion

The club's home ground is The Oval in Kennington, London . Woodbridge Road in Guildford and the Whitgift School in Croydon (London) are also used.

successes

County cricket

One-day cricket

Twenty20

  • Twenty20 Cup / Friends Life t20 / NatWest t20 Blast (1): 2003

statistics

Runs

Most of the first-class cricket runs were scored by the following players:

player Playing times Runs
Jack Hobbs 1905-1934 43,554
Thomas Hayward 1893-1914 36,171
Andrew Sandham 1911-1937 33,312
John Edrich 1958-1988 29,305
Robert Abel 1881-1904 27,609

Wickets

Most of the wickets in first-class cricket were scored by the following players:

player Playing times Runs
Thomas Richardson 1892-1904 1,775
Graham Lock 1946-1963 1,713
Percy Fender 1914-1935 1,586
Alec Bedser 1939-1960 1,459
Alfred Gover 1928-1947 1,437

Web links

official website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other Matches in England 1707 ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ Other Matches in England 1709 ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Mark Williamson: A brief history of Surrey ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
  4. ^ Surrey Club v Marylebone Cricket Club in 1846 ( English ) Cricket Archives. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
  5. ↑ Brendon Mitchell: FLt20 final: Northamptonshire beat Surrey to win Twenty20 title ( English ) Cricinfo. August 17, 2013. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ged Scott: One-Day Cup: Gloucestershire beat Surrey in Lord's final ( English ) BBC. September 19, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  7. ↑ Ged Scott: One-Day Cup: Warwickshire thrash Surrey in Lord's final ( English ) BBC. September 17, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  8. ↑ Jon Culley: Surrey seal first Championship title since 2002 with ninth win in a row ( English ) Cricinfo. September 13, 2018. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
  9. ↑ Most runs for Surrey ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
  10. ↑ Most wickets for Surrey ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved April 12, 2015.