Kent County Cricket Club
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| One-day name: | Kent Spitfires |
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| Captain: |
 Sam Northeast
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| Coach: |
Matt Walker
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| Founded: | 1842 |
| Home ground: | St Lawrence Ground |
| Capacity: | 7,000 |
| Chief executive: |
Jamie Clifford |
| First-class debut: |
Sussex in 1825 at Hove |
| Championship wins: | 7 (1 shared) |
| One Day Cup wins: | 2 |
| National League wins: | 5 |
| B&H Cup wins: | 3 |
| Twenty20 Cup wins: | 1 |
| Official website: | Official website |
 Kent County Cricket Club in 2017
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Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. The club was first founded in 1842 but teams representing the county have played top-class cricket since the early 18th century. Kent have competed in the County Championship since the official start of the competition in 1890 and have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England. The club's limited overs team is called the Kent Spitfires after the Supermarine Spitfire.
The club plays most of its home matches at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury, which hosts Canterbury Cricket Week, the oldest cricket festival in England. It also plays some home matches at the County Cricket Ground, Beckenham and the Nevill Ground, Royal Tunbridge Wells where they host Tunbridge Wells Cricket Week.
Kent also field a women's team in the Women's County Championship. The team has won the Championship a record seven times, most recently in 2016, and the Women's T20 title three times, most recently also in 2016. It has traditionally played matches at the Polo Farm in Canterbury, but as of 2016 has moved to be based mainly at Beckenham.
Kent, jointly with Sussex, is believed to be the birthplace of cricket. It is widely held 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.
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