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Surrey County Cricket Club (Surrey CCC) is a first class club in county cricket, one of eighteen in the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Surrey, including areas that now form South London. Teams representing the county are recorded from 1709 onwards; the current club was founded in 1845 and has held first class status continuously since then. Surrey have played in every top level domestic cricket competition in England, including every edition of the County Championship (which began in 1890). The club's home ground is The Oval, in the Kennington area of Lambeth in South London. They have been based there continuously since 1845. The club also has an 'out ground' at Woodbridge Road, Guildford, where some home games are played each season. Surrey's long history includes three major periods of great success. The club was unofficially proclaimed as "Champion County" seven times during the 1850s; it won the title eight times in nine years from 1887 to 1895 (including the first official County Championship in 1890); and won seven consecutive titles from 1952 to 1958. Surrey won 23 of its 28 county matches in 1955, the most wins by any team in the County Championship and a record which can no longer be beaten (as fewer than 23 matches have been played each season since 1993). Surrey have won the County Championship 21 times outright (and shared once), a number exceeded only by Yorkshire; their most recent championship win was in 2023. The club's traditional colour is chocolate brown, with players wearing brown caps and helmets, and the club is sometimes known by the nickname 'Brown Caps'.

Cricket is thought to have evolved from bat and ball games, played by children in southeast England during the Middle Ages. The first written record of the sport is from a witness statement by the Guildford resident and former Royal Grammar School pupil, John Derrick. In 1597 (old style, 1598 modern style), Derrick testified in a court case over the disputed enclosure of wasteland in the town that, as a child, "hee and his fellowes did runne and play there at Creckett and other plaies". In 1611, King James I gave to his eldest son, Henry, Prince of Wales, the manors of Kennington and Vauxhall, where the home ground of Surrey – The Oval – is today. To this day, the Prince of Wales's feathers feature on the club's badge. Cricket became well established in Surrey 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. The earliest known first class match in Surrey was Croydon v London at Croydon on 1 July 1707. In 1709, the earliest known inter county match took place between Kent and Surrey at Dartford Brent with £50 at stake. Surrey would continue to play cricket against other representative teams from that time onwards. Probably its greatest players during the underarm era were the famous bowler Lumpy Stevens and the wicket keeper/batsman William Yalden, who both belonged to the Chertsey club.

Surrey CCC was founded on the evening of 18 August 1845 at the Horns Tavern in Kennington, South London, where around 100 representatives of various cricket clubs in Surrey agreed a motion put by William Denison (the club's first secretary) "that a Surrey club be now formed". A further meeting at the Tavern on 22 October 1845 formally constituted the club, appointed its officers and began enrolling members. A lease on Kennington Oval, a former market garden, had been obtained from the Duchy of Cornwall – which owned the land – by a Mr Houghton, and the ground's first game had been during the 1845 season. Mr Houghton was of the old Montpelier Cricket Club, 70 members of which formed the nucleus of the new Surrey County club. The Honourable Fred Ponsonby, later the Earl of Bessborough was appointed as the first vice president. Surrey's inaugural first class match was against the MCC at The Oval at the end of May, 1846. The club's first inter county match, against Kent, was held at The Oval the following month and Surrey emerged victorious by ten wickets. However, the club did not do well that year, despite the extra public attractions at The Oval of a Walking Match and a Poultry Show. By the start of the 1847 season the club was £70 in debt and there was a motion to close. Ponsonby proposed that 6 life members be created for a fee of £12 each. His motion was duly passed, and the club survived. The threat of construction on The Oval was also successfully dispelled in 1848 thanks to the intervention of Prince Albert. In 1855, Surrey secured a new 21 year lease on their home ground and the club went on to enjoy an exceptionally successful decade, being "Champion County" seven times from 1850 to 1859 and again in 1864. In 1857, all nine matches played by the county resulted in victory. This was the time of great players like William Caffyn, Julius Caesar, HH Stephenson and Tom Lockyer, and a fine captain in Frederick Miller. An incident in 1862, at the instigation of Edgar Willsher in a match between Surrey and England, led to the introduction of overarm bowling into cricket.

Following a brilliant season in 1864 when the team won eight and drew three of its eleven first class matches, Surrey went into free fall in the latter half of the 1860s, owing to the decline of key players Caesar, Stephenson and Mortlock and a puzzling inability to find quality bowlers to support the incomparable James Southerton, whose combination with wicket keeper Ted Pooley virtually carried the team. Although Southerton broke many bowling records and Harry Jupp developed into the most prolific scorer among professional batsmen, Surrey's record in purely county matches during the seventeen seasons from 1866 to 1882 was 59 victories, 107 losses, two ties and 37 drawn games. The team bottomed out in 1871 when they did not win a single county match for the only time until 2008. Southerton, except in 1872 when fast bowler James Street helped him to win seven of twelve games, had no adequate support in bowling after underarm left arm spinner George Griffith declined, and except when Richard Humphrey achieved prominence in 1872 the batting depended almost entirely on Jupp. The fielding was also generally below the standard expected of first class cricket.

The start of the 20th century brought a decline in Surrey's fortunes, and they won the title only once during the next fifty years, in 1914. At the request of Surrey's captain Lord Dalmeny, the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) allowed the use of his feathers on the club badge. The club's most famous player was Jack Hobbs, who began playing for the county in 1905, and he had a notable opening partner till 1914 in Tom Hayward, who scored 3,518 runs in all first class cricket in 1906, equalled C. B. Fry's record of 13 centuries in a season and, in one six day period, scored two centuries at Trent Bridge and two more at Leicester. He scored his hundredth hundred at The Oval in 1913. Between the two World Wars, Surrey often had a good side, but it tended to be stronger in batting than in bowling; Hobbs played until 1934 with another good opening partner in Andrew Sandham. Hobbs scored more runs (61,760) and compiled more centuries (199) in first class cricket than any other player in the history of the game. In recognition of his contribution to the team, the eponymous Jack Hobbs Gates were inaugurated at The Oval. The side was not completely bereft of quality in the bowling department, however: Alf Gover took 200 wickets in both 1936 and 1937, a fine achievement for a fast bowler on the flat Oval track. The Oval pitches of this period tended to be very good for batting, and many matches were drawn. The club captain for much of this period was the affable and bohemian Percy Fender, whose closest colleague was the England captain of Bodyline fame (or infamy), Douglas Jardine. In 1938, Surrey played a home match away from The Oval for the first time, at Woodbridge Road in Guildford. After 1939, cricket took a break as the Second World War occupied the nation and The Oval was seized for Government use.

From 1948 to 1959, Surrey were the pre eminent English county team, finishing either first or second in the county championship in 10 seasons out of 12. They finished runners up in 1948, shared the championship with Lancashire in 1950, won seven consecutive outright titles from 1952 to 1958, and were runners up again in 1959. Their margins of victory were usually large. For example, Yorkshire were runners up in 1952 but finished 32 points behind. Their great success was built on a remarkably strong bowling attack, with Test seamer Alec Bedser supported by the outstanding spin duo of Tony Lock and Jim Laker, the latter widely regarded as one of the finest ever orthodox off spinners. Lock and Laker made the most of Oval pitches, which were receptive to spin, but the club's success was also due to the positive and attacking captaincy of Stuart Surridge, who won the title in all five years of his leadership from 1952 to 1956. The team fielded extremely well and a feature was some brilliant close catching. The team had excellent batsmen, especially the elegant Peter May, and the determined and combative Ken Barrington.

A fallow period followed, and over the next forty years to 1998, Surrey won the County Championship only once, in 1971 during the career of England opener John Edrich and under the captaincy of Micky Stewart, but greater success was achieved in the shorter form of the game. In 1969, Surrey employed their very first overseas player: the very popular Pakistani leg break bowler Intikhab Alam. In addition to Intikhab, the Surrey attack in their Championship winning side possessed four current or future England Test cricketers in Geoff Arnold, Robin Jackman, Bob Willis and Pat Pocock. Edrich was subsequently appointed captain in 1973 and led Surrey to second position in the County Championship in his first year in charge and then secured Surrey their first limited overs silverware the following year with victory in the Benson and Hedges Cup. Edrich's replacement as captain, Roger Knight, led Surrey to NatWest Trophy glory at Lord's in 1982. Following Intikhab Alam, other overseas players to appear for the county included the talented New Zealand opening batsman Geoff Howarth and two extremely fearsome fast bowlers, the West Indian Sylvester Clarke and the young Pakistani Waqar Younis. Following a relative drought of first class success, and with growing concern over the club's internal structure, the club's members forced a Special General Meeting in 1995. Following the resultant internal restructuring, a change of fortunes soon followed as new captain Alec Stewart – son of Micky – led the team to the Sunday League title in 1996. This in turn proved to be the catalyst for further success under the captaincy of Adam Hollioake and the influence of Keith Medlycott, who was county coach from 1997 to 2003. County Championship triumphs in 1999, 2000 and 2002 were complemented with Benson and Hedges Cup victories in 1997 and 2001, a National League Division Two title in 2000 and the inaugural Twenty20 Cup in 2003. This was in spite of the death of the highly talented all rounder Ben Hollioake, Adam Hollioake's younger brother, who was involved in a fatal car accident in early 2002. That same year, Ali Brown posted what remains today a world record List A score of 268 against Glamorgan at The Oval, beating Graeme Pollock's former record score in the first of his two one day double hundreds for Surrey. Adam Hollioake retired after the 2004 season.

The run of success came to an end in 2005 when an ageing Surrey team was relegated to Division Two of the Championship, but an immediate recovery took place in 2006 as Surrey won promotion as champions of Division Two. This proved short lived however, and they were once again relegated to Division Two in 2008, failing to win a single game for the first time since 1871 and losing their last two games by an innings. Despite the end of a successful period, Surrey did post a List A world record score of 496–4 from 50 overs, the first of which was a maiden, against Gloucestershire at The Oval on 29 April 2007; Ali Brown top scored with 176 from just 97 deliveries. The 2000s saw the retirement of Alec Stewart, Mark Butcher, Graham Thorpe and Martin Bicknell, who all represented England, as well as Saqlain Mushtaq who played for Pakistan. Another England player in Mark Ramprakash had joined Surrey in 2001 and, despite the club's travails, became the nineteenth player to pass 15,000 first class runs for the county, doing so at an average of over 70. Surrey did not threaten to achieve a return to Division One of the County Championship after their relegation, or to win either 40 over competition until 2011. However, the club did have more luck in the Twenty20 Cup following victory in 2003, reaching finals day in 2004, 2005 and 2006, but failing to win the competition. 2011 saw a revival in the team's fortunes. They achieved a return to Division One of the County Championship by the margin of a single point, as they won their final four games of the season. They also won the CB40 competition. After narrowly avoiding relegation in 2012, a season greatly overshadowed by the sad death of talented young batsman Tom Maynard in June, Surrey finished bottom of the Division One table the following year, and the Cricket Manager, Chris Adams, was sacked during the course of the season.

Under the new management team of Alec Stewart, appointed director of cricket, and Graham Ford, recruited before the 2014 season to be head coach, they won the Division Two title in 2015 and were also beaten finalists in the Royal London Cup. In January 2016 it was announced that Ford had left to rejoin Sri Lanka as head coach. Michael Di Venuto took over as head coach for the 2016 season and after a poor start, with Surrey bottom of Division One after seven games, the team had a strong finish to the season, finishing in the middle of the Championship and again runners up in the Royal London Cup. Gareth Batty stood down as captain at the end of 2017, and the 2018 season under Rory Burns saw Surrey dominate the Championship, winning the title with two matches remaining. Surrey won the County Championship again in 2022, and 2023.

Since the club's formation, its official colour has been chocolate brown. Traditionally, and in current first class matches, Surrey fielders wear a brown cricket cap with their cricket whites, whilst batsmen wear a brown helmet. As a result, the club is occasionally nicknamed the 'Brown Caps'. Currently, players wear a predominantly black kit with fluorescent blue decoration for one day matches, and black trousers with fluorescent blue shirts for T20 games.

Surrey County Cricket Club traditionally has relatively strong finances in terms of the county game (whose 18 counties' aggregate losses amounted to over £9 million in 2010), which is in no small part due to the capability of and agreement with its principal home ground, The Oval, to stage Test cricket on a yearly basis, alongside limited overs internationals. However, despite its reputation as an aggressively commercial club, this reputation took a hit with the club announcing pre tax losses of £502,000 for the 2010 financial year, as turnover dropped by 20% to £20.5m. The club had previously benefited from a sunnier balance sheet due to the sale of ground naming rights and the re development of the Vauxhall End at The Oval. In the 2008 financial year, a year when the club did not win a single match in the Second Division Championship, Surrey had achieved pre tax profits of £583,000 with a turnover of approaching £24 million, as membership swelled to 10,113. Record profit and turnover were announced for 2009 thanks to the staging of international cricket matches with the figures growing to £752,000 and £25.5 million, respectively. In 2010, the club was in a state of "financial strife," with twenty staff fired after lackluster attendance. The club began focusing under new leadership in 2011 on marketing the Oval. By 2020, its "off field arm" brought in half the club's revenue. The club's finance director in March 2020 said a "record breaking season" at the Kia Oval in 2019 would cushion the club from the financial impact of COVID 19. Events at the venue as well as "wider interest in cricket, resulted in a record year with annual pre tax profit at around £6m that more than doubled the previous year’s profits and revenue of £40m," which was 30 per cent higher than 2018.

No. denotes the player's squad number, as worn on the back of their shirt. denotes players with international caps. denotes a player who has been awarded a county cap. No. Name Nat Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes Batters9 Will Jacks*  1998 11 21, Age: 25 Right handed Right arm off break 10 Laurie Evans 1987 10 12, Age: 36 Right handed Right arm medium 14 Ben Geddes 2001 07 31, Age: 22 Right handed Right arm medium 17 Rory Burns*  1990 08 26, Age: 33 Left handed Right arm medium Club captain20 Jason Roy*  1990 07 21, Age: 33 Right handed Right arm medium 28 Dan Lawrence  1997 07 12, Age: 26 Right handed Right arm off break 32 Ollie Pope*  1998 01 02, Age: 26 Right handed Right arm leg break England central contract45 Dom Sibley  1995 09 05, Age: 28 Right handed Right arm leg break Vice captain All rounders5 Tommy Ealham 2004 03 26, Age: 20 Left handed Right arm off break 16 Jordan Clark* 1990 10 14, Age: 33 Right handed Right arm fast medium 26 Ryan Patel 1997 10 26, Age: 26 Left handed Right arm medium 30 Tom Lawes 2002 12 25, Age: 21 Right handed Right arm fast medium 34 Chris Jordan  1988 10 04, Age: 35 Right handed Right arm fast medium T20 captain44 Cameron Steel 1995 09 13, Age: 28 Right handed Right arm leg break 58 Sam Curran*  1998 06 03, Age: 26 Left handed Left arm fast medium England central contract59 Tom Curran*  1995 03 12, Age: 29 Right handed Right arm fast medium 77 Sean Abbott  1992 02 29, Age: 32 Right handed Right arm fast medium Overseas player88 Jamie Overton*  1994 04 10, Age: 30 Right handed Right arm fast Wicket keepers7 Ben Foakes*  1993 02 15, Age: 31 Right handed — England central contract 11 Jamie Smith*  2000 07 12, Age: 23 Right handed — 18 Josh Blake 1998 09 18, Age: 25 Right handed Right arm leg break Bowlers3 Conor McKerr 1998 01 19, Age: 26 Right handed Right arm fast UK Passport4 Matt Dunn 1992 05 05, Age: 32 Left handed Right arm fast 8 Daniel Worrall*  1991 07 10, Age: 32 Right handed Right arm fast medium UK Passport19 Amar Virdi 1998 07 19, Age: 25 Right handed Right arm off break 24 Reece Topley  1994 02 21, Age: 30 Right handed Left arm fast medium England central contract25 James Taylor 2001 01 19, Age: 23 Right handed Right arm fast medium 29 Nathan Barnwell 2003 02 03, Age: 21 Right handed Right arm fast medium 37 Gus Atkinson  1998 01 19, Age: 26 Right handed Right arm fast medium England central contract66 Kemar Roach*  1988 06 30, Age: 35 Right handed Right arm fast medium Overseas player68 Yousef Majid 2003 09 08, Age: 20 Left handed Slow left arm orthodox — Spencer Johnson  1995 12 16, Age: 28 Left handed Left arm fast medium Overseas player (T20 only)

Surrey have had 41 club captains since 1846. 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. For the 2018 season onwards, the club announced the creation of a separate captain specifically for Twenty20 matches, with experienced bowler Jade Dernbach being appointed to the role.

The position of president is an honorary one. The president does not take a salary and is chosen from supporters of the club. Past presidents have included former prime minister Sir John Major and the newsreader Sir Trevor McDonald. Former players to have held the post include John Edrich.

The chief executive is the official in charge of the day to day running of the club. Prior to 1993, the position was known as secretary. No. Name Years1 William Denison1845–18482 John Burrup1848–18553 William Burrup1855–18724 C. W. Alcock1872–19075 Brian Castor1947–19576 Geoffrey Howard1965–19757 W. H. Sillitoe1975–19788 Ian Scott Browne1978–1989 9 David Seward1989–1992 10 Glyn Woodman1993–199511 Paul Sheldon1996–201112 Richard Gould2011–2021 13 Steve Elworthy2021 to date