Surrey County Cricket Club

Surrey County Cricket Club
Nickname(s)	Brown Caps
One Day name	Surrey
Personnel
Captain	Rory Burns
One Day captain	Rory Burns (List A); Chris Jordan (T20)
Coach	Gareth Batty
Overseas player(s)	Sai Sudharsan
Chief executive	Steve Elworthy
Team information
Colours	First-class: ; List A and T20:
Founded	1845
Home ground	The Oval, Kennington, London
Capacity	25,500
History
First-class debut	MCC; in 1846; at The Oval
Championship wins	21 outright and 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
First-class	T20

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).^[1]

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).^[2] 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.^[3]

The club's badge is the Prince of Wales's feathers, used since 1915, as the Prince of Wales owns the land on which The Oval stands.^[4] 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'.^[5]^[6]

^ ACS (1982). A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles. Nottingham: ACS.
^ "Stuart Surridge Obituary (excerpt from Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 1993)". Cricinfo. Retrieved 21 May 2005.
^ Cite error: The named reference Ali_2022 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Williamson, Martin. "A brief history of Surrey". Cricinfo.com. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
^ Gibson, Pat (7 April 2006). "Hat trick for Surrey with change to Brown Caps". The Times. No. 68668. London. p. 89.
^ "England name unchanged squad for final Ashes Test at the Oval". The Guardian. Press Association. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2019. Brown Caps wicketkeeper Ben Foakes

[1] ACS (1982). A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles. Nottingham: ACS.

[2] "Stuart Surridge Obituary (excerpt from Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 1993)". Cricinfo. Retrieved 21 May 2005.

[Ali_2022-3] Cite error: The named reference Ali_2022 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Cricinfo_history-4] Williamson, Martin. "A brief history of Surrey". Cricinfo.com. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2011.

[brown1-5] Gibson, Pat (7 April 2006). "Hat trick for Surrey with change to Brown Caps". The Times. No. 68668. London. p. 89.

[brown2-6] "England name unchanged squad for final Ashes Test at the Oval". The Guardian. Press Association. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2019. Brown Caps wicketkeeper Ben Foakes

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