This is a list of cricketers who played for

Kent county cricket teams Kent county cricket teams have played matches since the early 18th century. The county's links to cricket go back further with Kent and Sussex generally accepted as the birthplace of the sport. It is widely believed that cricket was first played b ...

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

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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 Ke ...

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

Weald The Weald () is an area of South East England between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs. It crosses the counties of Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent. It has three separate parts: the sandstone "High Weald" in the ...

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South Downs The South Downs are a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the Eastbourne Downland Estate, East Sussex, in the east. ...

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

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Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

. The two counties and

Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...

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 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 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 Norma ...

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 hel ...

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 south-east of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 87,889 as of 2011. Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, char ...

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

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* Birley D (1999) ''A Social History of English Cricket''. London: Aurum Press. * Buckley GB (1935) ''Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket''. Birmingham: Cotterell & Co. *Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition).
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.) * Denison WD (1846) ''Cricket: Sketches of the Players''. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. * Lucas EV ed (1907) ''The Hambledon Men''. London: Henry Frowde.
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at Wikisource. Retrieved 2022-03-20.) Includes: ** Nyren J ''

The Cricketers of My Time ''The Cricketers of My Time'' is a memoir of cricket, nominally written by the former Hambledon Club, Hambledon cricketer John Nyren about the players of the late 18th century, most of whom he knew personally. Nyren, who had no recognised litera ...

'', pp. 42–93. ** Pycroft J ''The Hambledon Club and the Old Players'' pp. 133–157. ** Haygarth A ''Memoirs of the Old Players'', pp. 185–219. *Midwinter E (2017) ''Class Peace: An Analysis of Social Status and English Cricket 1846–1962''. Nottingham: Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. *Milton H (1999) ''The Bat & Ball Gravesend: a first-class history''. Gravesend:

Gravesend Cricket Club Gravesend Cricket Club is a cricket club which currently plays in Division 1 of the Kent Cricket League. The club was formed in 1881 when the Harkaway and Clarence Cricket Clubs were amalgamated to form the Gravesend Cricket Club. The club conti ...

. *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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Retrieved 2022-03-25.) * Rajan A (2011) ''Twirlymen: The Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers''. London: Yellow Jersey Press. * Underdown D (2000) ''Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England''. London: Penguin Books. {{Lists of English cricketers Kent county cricketers to 1842 Kent county cricketers to 1842

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