This is a list of cricketers who played for

Kent county cricket teams A variety of Kent county cricket teams played matches from the early 18th century until the formation of the original Kent County Cricket Club in 1842. The county's links to cricket go back further with Kent and Sussex generally accepted as the ...

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matches before the formation of the first

Kent County Cricket Club 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. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Ken ...

in August 1842. Cricket is generally believed to have originated out of children's bat and ball games in the areas of the

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and

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Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...

and

Sussex Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ...

. The two counties and

Surrey Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the wes ...

were the first centres of the game and the first known inter-county match took place between a Kent side and one from Surrey on

Dartford Brent Dartford Brent was an extensive area of common land on the outskirts of Dartford in Kent. Historically, it was the scene of a confrontation between King Henry VI and Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York in 1452 and in 1555 thousands of spectat ...

in 1709.Collins S (2006
A brief history of Kent

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, 2006-03-06. Retrieved 2016-02-14. Matches played by teams using the name Kent continued throughout the 18th century, and matches by the side have been considered first-class from 1773. Although there were attempts to form County Clubs at

Coxheath Coxheath is a village and civil parish within the Maidstone (borough), Borough of Maidstone, Kent, England. The parish is approximately south of Maidstone. It is mainly centred along Heath Road which links the villages of Yalding and Boughton ...

in 1787 and at

Town Malling West Malling ( , historically Town Malling) is a market town in the Tonbridge and Malling district of Kent, England. It has a population of 2,590. Landmarks West Malling contains several historic buildings, including St Leonard's Tower, a ...

between 1835 and 1841, both of these ultimately failed and the first

was established out of the Beverley Cricket Club during

Canterbury Cricket Week Canterbury Cricket Week is the oldest cricket festival week in England and involves a series of consecutive Kent home matches, traditionally held in the first week in August. It was founded in 1842, although a similar festival week was first he ...

in 1842.Moore, p. 15.Moore, p. 22.Milton 2020, pp. 193–196. The new club played its first first-class match against an England side at

White Hart Field White Hart Field was a cricket ground in Bromley in south-east London. The ground, which was in the county of Kent until 1965, was on an area of open space and farm land which stretched from Bromley Palace to Widmore Green.

Bromley Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is southeast of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 88,000 as of 2023. Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, charte ...

on 25–27 August 1842. This list includes those who played for Kent sides in matches which have been given first-class status before the match at Bromley in August 1842. Many players appeared for other teams, including the

East and West Kent cricket teams East Kent and West Kent were titles sometimes given to two cricket teams from their respective areas of the English county of Kent which generally played in matches prior to the foundation of the official Kent County Cricket Club in the mid 19th ...

and the amateur

Gentlemen of Kent Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class cricket, first-class county cricket, county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the Historic counties of England, historic county of Kent. ...

side, but only those who played for Kent sides have been included here.

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. *Milton H (2020) ''Kent County Cricket Grounds''. Worthing: Pitch Publishing. *Moore D (1988) ''The History of Kent County Cricket Club''. London: Christopher Helm. * Mote A (1997) ''The Glory Days of Cricket: The Extraordinary Story of Broadhalfpenny Down''. London: Robson.
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