Surrey County Cricket Club
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| Captain: | Gareth Batty |
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| Coach: | Michael Di Venuto |
| Colours: | First-class: List A and T20: |
| Founded: | 1845 |
| Home ground: | The Oval, Kennington |
| Capacity: | 23,500 |
| Chief executive: | Richard Gould |
| First-class debut: |
MCC in 1846 at The Oval |
| Championship wins: | 19 (including 1 shared) |
| Second Division Championship wins: | 2 |
| CB40/Pro40/Sunday League wins: | 3 |
| FP Trophy/NatWest Trophy wins: | 1 |
| Twenty20 Cup wins: | 1 |
| Benson & Hedges Cup wins: | 3 |
| Official website: | Official website |
Surrey County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Surrey. The club's limited overs team is called "Surrey" (unlike other counties' teams it has no official nickname). Surrey teams formed from 1709 by earlier organisations always had senior status and so the county club is rated accordingly from inception: i.e., classified by substantial sources as holding important match status from 1845 to 1894; classified as an official first-class team from 1895 by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the County Championship clubs; classified as a List A team since the beginning of limited overs cricket in 1963; and classified as a senior Twenty20 team since 2003.
Home of the club since its foundation in 1845 has been the Oval (currently known officially as the 'Kia Oval' following a sponsorship deal with the Kia Motors company), in the Kennington area of Lambeth in south London. The club also has an 'out ground' at Woodbridge Road, Guildford, where some home games are played each season.
Surrey CCC has had three notable periods of great success in its history. The club was unofficially proclaimed as "Champion County" seven times during the 1850s; it won the title eight times from 1887 to 1895 (including the first ever officially constituted County Championship in 1890); and seven consecutive outright titles from 1952 to 1958 inclusive following a shared title (with Lancashire) in 1950. In 1955, Surrey won 23 of its 28 county matches, a record that still stands and can no longer be bettered as counties have played fewer than 23 matches each season since 1993. To date, Surrey has won the official County Championship 18 times outright, more than any other county with the exception of Yorkshire.
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