89-513: The Mzansi Super League (MSL) was a Twenty20 cricket (T20) franchise league held in South Africa. The competition was established in 2018 by Cricket South Africa (CSA) as a replacement for the failed T20 Global League, but only two editions were played before the competition was itself canceled. The SA20 competition , first held in 2023, could be seen as a successor to the MSL. The first edition of
178-511: A class batsman but previously available only in August – as assistant secretary. The death of Southerton and retirement of other veterans paved the way for new talent in Maurice Read , William Roller , left-arm spinner Edward Barratt and pace bowler Charles Horner to lay a foundation for long-term success in the middle 1880s. With the rapid rise of George Lohmann in 1885 , Surrey challenged for
267-627: 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
356-546: 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
445-571: A Twenty20 franchise elsewhere in the world and make far more money. Under-17s and Under-19s are playing T20 games in national championships, and at the detriment of two-day games. Good state players these days are averaging 35; if you were averaging 35 when I was playing your dad would go and buy you a basketball or a footy and tell you to play that. In June 2009, speaking at the annual Cowdrey Lecture at Lord's , former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist pushed for Twenty20 to be made an Olympic sport . "It would," he said, "be difficult to see
534-421: A bench (typically a row of chairs) visible in the playing arena, analogous to association football's technical area or a baseball dugout . The Laws of cricket apply to Twenty20, with major exceptions: Currently, if the match ends with the scores tied and there must be a winner, the tie is broken with a one-over-per-side Eliminator or Super Over : Each team nominates three batsmen and one bowler to play
623-595: A better, quicker or cheaper way of spreading the game throughout the world." This became a reality starting with the 2028 Summer Olympics . T20 cricket has also been accepted into the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games . Twenty20 match format is a form of limited overs cricket in that it involves two teams, each with a single innings . The key feature is that each team bats for a maximum of 20 overs (120 legal balls). The batting team members do not arrive from and depart to traditional dressing rooms, but come and go from
712-644: A bond in September 2019 to fund redeveloping the Oval cricket ground. 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
801-448: A brown helmet. As a result, the club is occasionally nicknamed the 'Brown Caps'. Surrey's badge is a brown shield with white Prince of Wales's feathers and the club name. The feathers were adopted in 1915, when Lord Rosebery (a former Surrey captain) obtained permission to use them from the Prince of Wales , whose Duchy of Cornwall estate is the landlord of The Oval. The feathers on
890-519: 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
979-573: A light-hearted manner – both sides turned out in kit similar to that worn in the 1980s, the New Zealand team's a direct copy of that worn by the Beige Brigade . Some of the players also sported moustaches or beards and hairstyles popular in the 1980s, taking part in a competition amongst themselves for "best retro look", at the request of the Beige Brigade. Australia won the game comprehensively, and as
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#17330927948401068-482: 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
1157-462: A one-over-per-side "mini-match". The team which bats second in the match bats first in the Super Over. In turn, each side bats one over bowled by the one nominated opposition bowler, with their innings over if they lose two wickets before the over is completed. The side with the higher score from their Super Over wins. If the Super Over also ends up in a tie, it is repeated until the tie is broken. In
1246-530: A play-off match, with the winner advancing to the final. Franchises acquired players by means of a player draft. A series of marquee players from the South African national team were drafted first, and teams could also select one international marquee player. After these picks, teams were allocated fourteen picks each with player salaries determined by the round in which they were selected. Six franchise teams representing different South African cities competed in
1335-456: A predominantly black kit with fluorescent blue decoration for one-day matches, and black trousers with fluorescent blue shirts for T20 games. Since their formation, Surrey have played the overwhelming majority of their home matches at The Oval . The stadium currently holds 25,500 people and is the third largest cricket ground in England, after Lord's and Edgbaston . The Oval was first leased by
1424-522: 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
1513-522: 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 appointment of renowned sports administrator Charles Alcock as secretary of
1602-399: A tie-breaking bowl-out 3–0; 126 runs were scored apiece in the game proper. The game was the last international match played by Chris Cairns . The ICC has declared that it sees T20 as the optimal format for globalizing the game, and in 2018, announced that it will give international status to all T20 cricket matches played between its member nations. This resulted in a significant leap in
1691-518: A trio of top bowlers: George Lohmann, Bill Lockwood and Tom Richardson . In 1899, Abel's unbeaten 357 helped Surrey to a mammoth total of 811 against Somerset ; both scores remain club records over 100 years later. 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 ,
1780-400: 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
1869-461: The 2007 ICC World Cricket League Division One , a 50-over competition. In December 2007 it was decided to hold a qualifying tournament with a 20-over format to better prepare the teams. With six participants, two would qualify for the 2009 World Twenty20 and would each receive $ 250,000 in prize money. The second tournament was won by Pakistan , who beat Sri Lanka by eight wickets in England on 21 June 2009. The 2010 ICC World Twenty20 tournament
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#17330927948401958-574: 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
2047-627: The Rose Bowl in Hampshire on 13 June 2005, which England won by a margin of 100 runs, a record victory which lasted until 2007. On 9 January 2006 Australia and South Africa met in the first international Twenty20 game in Australia. In a first, each player's nickname appeared on the back of his uniform, rather than his surname. The international match drew a crowd of 38,894 people at The Gabba . On 16 February 2006 New Zealand defeated West Indies in
2136-572: The United States and Pakistan on 6 June 2024, in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup at Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas, Texas, with the United States winning 18/1 to 13/1 in the Super Over after tying on 159. Tied Twenty20 matches were previously decided by a bowl-out . Women's and men's Twenty20 Internationals have been played since 2004 and 2005 respectively. To date, 76 nations have played
2225-559: 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
2314-668: 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
2403-614: 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 three consecutive County Championship titles in 2022, 2023, and 2024. This
2492-513: The Australian domestic competition the Big Bash League , the Super Over is played slightly differently, with no two-wicket limit, and if the Super Over is also tied then a " countback " is used, with scores after the fifth ball for each team being used to determine the result. If it is still tied, then the countback goes to four balls, and so on. The latest Super Over to decide a match was between
2581-481: The County Championship 22 times outright (and shared once), a number exceeded only by Yorkshire ; their most recent championship win was in 2024 . 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. The club's traditional colour is chocolate brown, with players wearing brown caps and helmets, and the club is sometimes known by
2670-791: 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
2759-553: The English and Caribbean Twenty20 competitions, Middlesex and Trinidad and Tobago , and a Stanford Superstars team formed from West Indies domestic players. Trinidad and Tobago won the competition, securing $ 280,000 prize money. On 1 November, the Stanford Superstars played England in what was expected to be the first of five fixtures in as many years with the winner claiming $ 20 million in each match. The Stanford Superstars won
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2848-549: The Indian fitness website Takath.com that Twenty20 had "raised the bar" in terms of fitness levels for all players, demanding higher levels of strength, speed, agility and reaction time from all players regardless of role in the team. Matthew Hayden credited retirement from international cricket with aiding his performance in general and fitness in particular in the Indian Premier League . Several commentators have noted that
2937-449: The London derby with Middlesex , so-called because of the two traditional counties' proximity to, and overlap with, today's Greater London , which was only created in 1965. The match generally draws the biggest crowds of the season for either team. In first-class cricket, Surrey have won more of the 256 London derbies than Middlesex, but the commonest result is the draw, while Middlesex have
3026-693: The T20 format has been embraced by many Associate members of the ICC partly because it is more financially viable to play. T20's success has also inspired the invention of even shorter formats, such as T10 cricket and 100-ball cricket , and its impact on cricket has been compared to or served as inspiration for innovations in other sports, such as with the 3x3 variant of basketball or the Indian Pro Kabaddi League . Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting , on
3115-593: 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,
3204-554: The badge incorporate the number 1845, the year of the club's establishment. Surrey's limited overs sides have played under a variety of names. The name Surrey Lions was used prior to 2006 and from 2010 to 2012, whilst from 2006 to 2010 they were the Surrey Brown Caps. They currently simply use the one-word name Surrey. They have also used numerous colours for their limited overs kits, including combinations of black, blue, brown, biege, gold, silver and green. Currently, players wear
3293-642: The broadcasting and digital rights for the next five years (2018–2022) of the IPL were sold to Star India for US$ 2.55 billion, making it one of the world's most lucrative sports league per match. The IPL has seen a spike in its brand valuation to US$ 5.3 billion after the 10th edition , according to global valuation and corporate finance advisor Duff & Phelps. The Big Bash League , Bangladesh Premier League , Pakistan Super League , Caribbean Premier League , and Afghanistan Premier League started thereafter, following similar formulae, and remained popular with
3382-463: 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
3471-434: 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 ,
3560-884: The club in 1845 from the Duchy of Cornwall and it remains so to this day. The Oval is a long-standing and frequent Test match venue for the England cricket team , traditionally hosting the last Test match of each English summer, in late August or early September. Surrey play some matches each year at Woodbridge Road, Guildford , which holds 4,500 spectators. This is known as an 'out-ground' and currently hosts one County Championship match and one List A match each season. All other home matches are played at The Oval. Surrey have played home matches at fourteen different out-grounds in total. The Oval hosted all but two Surrey home matches between 1846 and 1938. The following table gives details of every venue at which Surrey have hosted men's first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket matches: Surrey contest
3649-463: 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. Between 2007 and 2020, the club had a period of "steady revenue growth," and in 2020, the club was in the process of building a 95-room hotel across the road from the Oval House, to "diversify" its revenue mix. Surrey CCC launched
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3738-416: The club – a paid position for the first time – in 1872 coincided with an improved performance; however, despite qualification rules being changed so that Southerton played every game for the county (up to 1872 he did not play whenever Sussex , the county of his birth, had a match on) Surrey performed poorly in the 1873 season . As mainstays Jupp and Southerton declined from 1875 , matters were ameliorated by
3827-502: 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
3916-500: The competition did not run in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was then cancelled. Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away round-robin format in the league phase. At the conclusion of the league stage, the top three teams qualified for the playoffs, with the team that topped the table after the league phase progressing to the final as the home side and the second and third placed teams played against each other in
4005-510: 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
4094-411: The competition. These sides were loosely affiliated with the six franchise teams that played First Class and List-A cricket in the domestic circuit. The sides were: Twenty20 cricket First-class cricket One Day International Limited overs (domestic) Twenty20 International Twenty20 (domestic) Other forms Twenty20 (abbreviated T20 ) is a shortened format of cricket . At
4183-704: The country participated in Pakistan's inaugural competition in 2004, with the Faisalabad Wolves the first winners. On 12 January 2005 Australia's first Twenty20 game was played at the WACA Ground between the Western Warriors and the Victorian Bushrangers . It drew a sell-out crowd of 20,000, which was the first one in nearly 25 years. Starting on 11 July 2006, 19 West Indies regional teams competed in what
4272-707: 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
4361-736: The day to buy tickets, causing Gabba staff to throw open gates and grant many fans free entry. Attendance reached 27,653. For the February 2008 Twenty20 match between Australia and India, 85,824 people attended the match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground , involving the Twenty20 World Champions against the ODI World Champions . The Stanford Super Series was held in October 2008 between the three teams. The respective winners of
4450-509: The discovery of class amateur batsmen in Bunny Lucas , Walter Read and William Game , but apart from 1877 Surrey never won half as many games as they lost and the inadequacy of the bowling on flat Oval pitches was a severe handicap. In 1880, although the county's record remained bad, Surrey began to make the steps that would return them to the top of the table with the appointment of John Shuter as captain and of Walter Read – established as
4539-415: 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:
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#17330927948404628-446: 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
4717-609: The fans. The Women's Big Bash League was started in 2015 by Cricket Australia, while the Kia Super League was started in England and Wales in 2016. The Mzansi Super League in South Africa was started in 2018. Several T20 leagues follow the general format of having a group stage followed by a Page playoff system among the top four teams where: In the Big Bash League, there is an additional match to determine which of
4806-566: The first match, but no further fixtures were held as Allen Stanford was charged with fraud in 2009. Several T20 leagues started after the popularity of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 . The Board of Control for Cricket in India started the Indian Premier League popularly known as IPL , which is now the largest cricket league, in 2008, which utilizes the North American sports franchise system with ten teams in major Indian cities. In September 2017,
4895-565: 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
4984-493: The format, including all Test-playing nations . In November 2011, the ICC released the first Twenty20 International rankings for the men's game, based on the same system as the Test and ODI rankings. The rankings cover a two- to three-year period, with matches since the most recent 1 August weighted fully, matches in the preceding 12 months weighted two-thirds, and matches in the 12 months preceding that weighted one-third. To qualify for
5073-450: The fourth- or fifth-placed teams will qualify to be in the top four. The first Twenty20 International match was held on 5 August 2004 between the England and New Zealand women's teams, with New Zealand winning by nine runs. On 17 February 2005 Australia defeated New Zealand in the first men's international Twenty20 match, played at Eden Park in Auckland . The game was played in
5162-561: The ground and viewers on television. The game has succeeded in spreading around the cricket world. On most international tours there is at least one Twenty20 match and all Test -playing nations have a domestic cup competition. When the Benson & Hedges Cup ended in 2002, the ECB sought another one-day competition to fill with the younger generation in response to dwindling crowds and reduced sponsorship. The Board wanted to deliver fast-paced, exciting cricket accessible to fans who were put off by
5251-429: The highest level, both internationally and domestically. A typical Twenty20 game is completed in about three and a half hours, with each innings lasting around 90 minutes and an official 10-minute break between the innings. This is much shorter than previous forms of the game, and is closer to the timespan of other popular team sports. It was introduced to create a fast-paced game that would be attractive to spectators at
5340-454: 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
5429-436: 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
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#17330927948405518-446: 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
5607-412: The leading cricket countries. Surrey County Cricket Club 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;
5696-566: The longer versions of the game. Stuart Robertson, the marketing manager of the ECB, proposed a 20-over-per-innings game, invented by New Zealand cricketer Martin Crowe , to county chairmen in 2001, and they voted 11–7 in favour of adopting the new format. The first official Twenty20 matches were played on 13 June 2003 between the English counties in the Twenty20 Cup . The first season of Twenty20 in England
5785-481: 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
5874-533: 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
5963-427: The number of T20I matches played across the world. Every two years an ICC World Twenty20 tournament is to take place, except in the event of an ICC Cricket World Cup being scheduled in the same year, in which case it will be held the year before. The first tournament was in 2007 in South Africa where India defeated Pakistan in the final. Two Associate teams had played in the first tournament, selected through
6052-746: The other hand, has criticised Twenty20 as being detrimental to Test cricket and for hampering batsmen's scoring skills and concentration. Former Australian captain Greg Chappell made similar complaints, fearing that young players would play too much T20 and not develop their batting skills fully, while former England player Alex Tudor feared the same for bowling skills. Former West Indies captains Clive Lloyd , Michael Holding and Garfield Sobers criticised Twenty20 for its role in discouraging players from representing their test cricket national side, with many West Indies players like Chris Gayle , Sunil Narine and Dwayne Bravo preferring instead to play in
6141-645: The previous year’s profits and revenue of £40m," which was 30 per cent higher than 2018. Surrey's current main sponsor is Kia Motors , who paid £3.5m over five years to sponsor the shirts and the ground naming rights for The Oval. Former main sponsors were Brit plc who paid £500,000.00 per year (2004 to 2009) and AMP Limited who paid £250,000 (2002). Since 2023, the kit supplier has been Castore . As at 3 October 2024 [1] The following cricketers have made 200 or more appearances for Surrey in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket combined. Surrey have had 41 club captains since 1846. The club captain leads
6230-493: The professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innings each, which is restricted to a maximum of twenty overs . Together with first-class and List A cricket, Twenty20 is one of the three forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as being played at
6319-444: The rankings, teams must have played at least eight Twenty20 Internationals in the ranking period. The ICC Women's Rankings were launched in October 2015, which aggregated performance over all three forms of the game. In October 2018, the ICC announced that the women's ranking would be split between ODIs and T20Is, and released both tables shortly thereafter. This is a list of the current Twenty20 domestic competitions in several of
6408-529: The result became obvious towards the end of the NZ innings, the players and umpires took things less seriously: Glenn McGrath jokingly replayed the Trevor Chappell underarm incident from a 1981 ODI between the two sides, and Billy Bowden showed him a mock red card (red cards are not normally used in cricket) in response. The first Twenty20 international in England was played between England and Australia at
6497-416: 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,
6586-431: The slight edge in one-day cricket with 28 wins to Surrey's 26. Surrey have won 12 of the 17 Twenty20 London derbies. 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
6675-508: 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
6764-482: The tournament took place in November and December 2018. The South African Broadcasting Corporation broadcast all matches domestically on free-to-air channels. The league consisted of six franchise teams representing different South African cities. Two editions were played under this format before changes were proposed to reflect the wide structural changes that were announced for South African domestic cricket in 2021, but
6853-407: 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
6942-504: 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
7031-593: The unofficial title of Champion County for the first time in twenty years; then, by winning 32 of 42 matches in 1887, 1888 and 1889, Surrey were first or equal first in the final three years before official County Champions emerged. Surrey then won official County Championship titles in 1890–1892 under John Shuter. After a disappointing season in 1893 when their batting failed on Oval pitches rendered fiery by several dry winters and springs, Kingsmill Key took over and led Surrey to further titles in 1894, 1895 and 1899. Leading players in these years were batsman Bobby Abel and
7120-573: 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
7209-520: Was a relative success, with the Surrey Lions defeating the Warwickshire Bears by nine wickets in the final to claim the title. The first Twenty20 match held at Lord's , on 15 July 2004 between Middlesex and Surrey , attracted a crowd of 27,509, the highest attendance for any county cricket game at the ground – other than a one-day final – since 1953. Thirteen teams from different parts of
7298-607: Was held in Bangladesh. The 2016 ICC World Twenty20 was won by West Indies. In July 2020, the ICC announced that both the 2020 and 2021 editions had been postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In June 2021, the ICC expanded the Twenty20 World Cup from 16 to 20 teams starting from the 2024 edition onwards. Twenty20 cricket is claimed to have resulted in a more athletic and explosive form of cricket. Indian fitness coach Ramji Srinivasan declared in an interview with
7387-503: Was held in the West Indies in May 2010, where England defeated Australia by seven wickets. The 2012 ICC World Twenty20 was won by the West Indies, by defeating Sri Lanka at the finals. It was the first time in cricket history when a T20 World Cup tournament took place in an Asian country. The 2014 ICC World Twenty20 was won by Sri Lanka, by defeating India at the finals, where the tournament
7476-407: Was involved in a fatal car accident in early 2002. That same year, Ali Brown posted what remained until 2022 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
7565-655: Was named the Stanford 20/20 tournament. The event was financially backed by billionaire Allen Stanford , who gave at least $ 28 million in funding money. It was intended that the tournament would be an annual event. Guyana won the inaugural event, defeating Trinidad and Tobago by five wickets, securing $ 1 million in prize money. On 5 January 2007 the Queensland Bulls played the New South Wales Blues at The Gabba , Brisbane . An unexpected 16,000 fans turned up on
7654-490: 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
7743-406: 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
7832-458: Was the first time that a county had won three successive titles since Yorkshire did so in the 1960s. Rory Burns was captain and Alec Stewart was director of cricket for all four wins, and Gareth Batty was head coach for the last three. 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
7921-480: 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
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