Kent County Cricket Club

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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, representing the historic county of Kent. A Kent county cricket team has existed since 1709, initially managed by individual patrons and other organisations. Various attempts were made to establish a formal county club, and for many years two such clubs co-existed before merging on 6 December 1870 to form the present club, which is based at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury. Kent has held first-class status since 1864 and has competed in the County Championship since the competition's official inception in 1890. The club has won the County Championship seven times, including one shared title. Four championships were secured between 1906 and 1913, while the remaining three were won during the 1970s, a period in which Kent also enjoyed significant success in one-day cricket. The club's limited overs team is known as the Kent Spitfires, named after the beer...

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