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Matthew Walker

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Established
1842 (181 years old)

Sport
Cricket

Stadium/Home
St Lawrence Ground
(7,000 Capacity)

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Location
Canterbury

Nicknames
limited overs, Kent Spitfires

Competitions
English County Championship Division 1

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26/09	Kent	-	Somerset
20/09	Hampshire	-	Kent
05/09	Kent	-	Essex
25/07	Lancashire	-	Kent
19/07	Warwickshire	-	Kent

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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.
County Championship 1906, 1909, 1910, 1913, 1970, 1978.

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Bell-Drummond		70 Billings		Blake		Crawley
Denly		Dickson		Kuhn		Leaning
Milnes		Podmore		Robinson		Stevens
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The St Lawrence Ground is a cricket ground in Canterbury, Kent, referred to as the Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence due to commercial sponsorship, and is the home of Kent County Cricket Club. It is one of the oldest grounds on which first-class cricket is played, having been in use since 1847. It is also notable as one of the two grounds used regularly for first-class cricket that have a tree within the boundary (the other is the City Oval in Pietermaritzburg).
Cricket grounds in most parts of the world are devoid of any trees or shrubs. The lime tree at the St Lawrence Ground was an exception: the ground opened as the Beverley Ground in 1847, and was built around the tree. The presence of a tree within the playing area required special local rules. Shots blocked by the tree were counted as a four. Only four cricketers have cleared the tree to score a six: Arthur 'Jacko' Watson of Sussex in 1925, the West Indies' Learie Constantine (1928), Middlesex's Jim Smith (1939), and Carl Hooper (1992).

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