"becoming injured at the start of the 2010 season meant that Stokes continued playing in all forms of the game for Durham. Having had a very successful debut season in first-class cricket he was given a place in the England Performance Programme and travelled to Australia during the 2010–11 Ashes. On 2 January 2015, Stokes joined the Melbourne Renegades of Australia's Big Bash League for the remainder of the season as a replacement for Jesse Ryder, who was ruled out through injury. On 13 February 2017, Stokes was appointed vice-captain of England's test team, deputising under Joe Root, who was"
"Ben Stokes Benjamin Andrew Stokes (born 4 June 1991) is an English international cricketer and former vice-captain of the England Test team. Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, Stokes moved to northern England at the age of 12, where he learnt the game and began playing club cricket for local teams. He is an all-rounder who bowls right-arm fast-medium pace, and bats left-handed. An attacking middle-order batsman, he holds the record for England's fastest ever Test double-century, the fastest ever Test match 250, and the highest ever score for a Test batsman batting at number six. He also holds the record"
"by Colin Cowdrey, with Kent winning by 116 runs. Stan Stoker John Stanley ""Stan"" Stoker (29 May 1944 – 10 October 2015) was an English cricketer. Stoker was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast. He was born in Bearpark, County Durham. Stoker made his debut in the Minor Counties cricket for Dorset, first appearing for the county in the 1966 Minor Counties Championship against Wiltshire. He played Minor counties cricket for Dorset from 1966 to 1968, making 14 Minor Counties Championship appearances. He later joined his native county of Durham, making his debut for the county against Cumberland in"
"in 2005, he played for them until 2008 in the Minor Counties Championship and until 2009 in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. In 2010, he joined Wiltshire, making his debut for the county in the MCCA Knockout Trophy against Cornwall, as well as playing for them in the Minor Counties Championship. Mitchell Stokes Mitchell Sam Thomas Stokes (born 27 March 1987) is an English cricketer. Stokes is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire. During his schooling years, he was educated at Cranbourne School, before progressing to Basingstoke College of Technology. Having progressed through"
"List-A matches for the county against the Worcestershire Cricket Board in the 1st round of the 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy which was played in 2002 and against Yorkshire in 2nd round of the 2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy. Ben Lawes Benjamin 'Ben' James Lawes (born 5 April 1982) is a former English cricketer. Lawes was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. Also in 2001, Lawes made his debut for Dorset in the 2001 Minor Counties Championship against Cornwall. From 2001 to 2008, Lawes represented Dorset in 26 Minor Counties Championship matches, with his final Minor Counties appearance"
"for the most runs scored by an individual batsman in the morning session of a Test match. Stokes became the highest-paid overseas player in the history of the Indian Premier League in 2017, fetching a record contract of (£1.7 million). Stokes is the son of rugby league player and coach Gerard Stokes. He moved to England at a young age after his father was appointed head coach of Workington Town rugby league club, and grew up in the small West Cumbrian town of Cockermouth, playing cricket for Cockermouth Cricket Club; he won the North Lancashire & Cumbria Cricket League Premier"
"bowling figures until 2017 when Adam Milne took 5/11 against Somerset at Taunton. County Cricket Ground, Beckenham The County Ground, Beckenham (previously known as the Lloyds TSB Sports and Social Club Ground) is a cricket ground in Beckenham in the London Borough of Bromley. The ground is owned by Leander Sports and Leisure and is used as an outground by Kent County Cricket Club for First XI fixtures, as well as for other matches. As of 2016 the Kent Women cricket team play the majority of their matches at the ground The ground, which is on a site, was first"
"Ben Cox Oliver Benjamin Cox (born 2 February 1992) is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Worcestershire. Cox has been associated with Worcestershire for some years, having played at Under-13, Under-15 and Under-17 level, although not originally as a wicket-keeper. He captained the Under-17 side against Somerset U-17s in July 2009, scoring exactly 100. Cox was called up to make his first-class debut, aged 17, in Worcestershire's penultimate County Championship match of 2009, against Somerset at Taunton. Withdrawn from his lessons at Bromsgrove School for the occasion, he scored 61 in his only innings of a drawn match"
"the county between 2005 and 2006 against Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. His brother Mark played first-class cricket for Sussex and Derbyshire, as well as List A cricket for the Sussex Cricket Board. Additionally, he also represented Buckinghamshire in Minor Counties cricket. His other brother Keith played first-class cricket for Sussex, Matabeleland and Glamorgan. He also played List A cricket for Wales Minor Counties. Jonathan Newell Jonathan James Newell (born 30 September 1978) is a former English cricketer. Newell was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born at Crawley, Sussex. Newell represented the Sussex Cricket Board in"
"last coming against Norfolk. In his 12 matches for the county, he took 13 wickets at an average of 31.53, with best figures of 2/16. He also played 2 List A matches for the Minor Counties cricket team, against Yorkshire in the 1997 Benson & Hedges Cup and Leicestershire in the 1998 Benson & Hedges Cup. He 3 wickets for the Minor Counties, which came at an average of 44.33, with best figures of 3/37. Simon Oakes (cricketer) Simon Oakes (born 9 September 1974) is a former English cricketer. Oakes was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was"
"scored 22 runs at an average of 11.00, with a high score of 18. Ian Stokes (cricketer) Ian William Edward Stokes (born 22 February 1964) is a former English cricketer. Stokes was a left-handed batsman. He was born in Solihull, Warwickshire. Stokes made his debut for Staffordshire in the 1997 MCCA Knockout Trophy against Buckinghamshire. Stokes played Minor counties cricket for Staffordshire from 1997 to 1998, which included 6 Minor Counties Championship matches and 4 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. In 1997, he made his List A debut against Nottinghamshire in the NatWest Trophy. He played a further List A match"
"Ian Stokes (cricketer) Ian William Edward Stokes (born 22 February 1964) is a former English cricketer. Stokes was a left-handed batsman. He was born in Solihull, Warwickshire. Stokes made his debut for Staffordshire in the 1997 MCCA Knockout Trophy against Buckinghamshire. Stokes played Minor counties cricket for Staffordshire from 1997 to 1998, which included 6 Minor Counties Championship matches and 4 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. In 1997, he made his List A debut against Nottinghamshire in the NatWest Trophy. He played a further List A match against Leicestershire in the 1998 NatWest Trophy. In his 2 List A matches, he"
"wicket-keeper to do so after Matt Prior, and the fifth keeper-batsman overall. Ben Foakes Benjamin Thomas Foakes (born 15 February 1993) is an English cricketer. Foakes is a right-handed batsman who fields as a wicket-keeper. He made his international debut for the England cricket team in November 2018. He was born in Colchester, Essex and educated at Tendring Technology College. His father was English football Premier League referee Peter Foakes. During the 2011 English season, Foakes made his debut for Essex in a first-class match against the touring Sri Lankans at the County Ground, Chelmsford. He was dismissed for 5"
"a first-class county. Heino Kuhn's score of 117 was the second century made on the ground in List A cricket, beating Neil Dexter's score of 101 scored against Somerset in 2008, and Darren Stevens' 6/25 was the second five-wicket haul taken on the ground, Martin Saggers having taken 5/51 in 2004 against the touring West Indians. Kuhn went on to score a second hundred two days later against Gloucestershire, making 113 while Joe Denly scored 109 not out to post the fourth century on the ground in List A cricket. The two batsmen set a new record for any wicket"
"Mitchell Stokes Mitchell Sam Thomas Stokes (born 27 March 1987) is an English cricketer. Stokes is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire. During his schooling years, he was educated at Cranbourne School, before progressing to Basingstoke College of Technology. Having progressed through the youth system at Hampshire, Stokes represented England Under-19's in youth Test and One Day International matches during the 2004/05 tour to India and Malaysia. In the 2005 season, Stokes made his first XI debut for Hampshire after spending a number of seasons in the Second XI. His first team"
"the county in their first first-class match of the 2013 season against Oxford MCCU at the University Parks, scoring 15 runs in the match and taking the wickets of Sam Agarwal and Stewart Davison in Oxford's first-innings, before taking the wicket of Ben Williams in their second-innings. Recordo went to Aston Manor Academy along with West Bromwich Albion striker Saido Berahino cricketer Ateeq Javid and with MMA fighter Leon Edwards Recordo Gordon Recordo Olton Gordon (born 12 October 1991) is a Jamaican–born English cricketer. Gordon is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium. He was born at St. Elizabeth's, Jamaica."
"in the County Championship era, serving between 1957 and 1971. Ted Dillon led the county to the County Championship title three times, the only man to captain Kent to more than one championship title. Mike Denness' side of the early 1970s won six one-day titles in his five years as captain. Of the players in the current squad Joe Denly and Sam Billings have appeared in One Day Internationals (ODIs) and T20 internationals for the England cricket team. Heino Kuhn, who signed a Kolpak contract in March 2018, has played Test and T20 cricket for South Africa and Fred Klaassen,"
"leading wicket taker. Bill Ashdown holds the record for the highest score for the county with 332 runs against Essex in 1934. He is one of only two men to have scored a triple-century for Kent, with two to his name, the other being Sean Dickson who scored 318 against Northants in 2017. Tich Freeman is the county's leading wicket taker with 3,340 wickets. Freeman took more than 150 wickets for the county 14 times and holds the record for the most wickets in a season. Fellow spin bowler Colin Blythe has the best bowling figures in Kent's history taking"
"A fixtures have been played, all but one featuring Kent as the home side, the other being the One Day International between India and Zimbabwe held during the 1983 World Cup. Kent have also played six Twenty20 matches on the ground. ""All records last updated 30 March 2018"" The 633 runs scored by Kent against Essex in 2015 set a new record for the highest score by the county on a home ground. As of 2018 it remains the fourth highest innings score in the county's history, having been surpassed in 2018 at Beckenham. Kent's County Championship match at the"
"Test players and former county cricket players as its professionals. Former players for the team include the Australian all-rounder George Tribe, the county spinners Albert Rhodes and John McMahon, former Lancashire captain Ken Grieves, the West Indies Test player Derick Parry, the Zimbabwean Kevin Curran and the Indian bowler Chetan Sharma. Its most recent Test player to act as a professional was Paul Wiseman, the New Zealand off-spin bowler in 2005. The record wicket-taker in a single season was Tribe, whose 148 wickets in 1949 were a record at the time for the Central Lancashire League (equalled in the same"
"Matthew Stokes (cricketer) Matthew Stokes (born 7 October 1995) is a cricketer who plays for Guernsey. He played in the 2014 ICC World Cricket League Division Five tournament. In May 2015 he participated in the 2015 ICC Europe Division One tournament. On 8 September 2015 in the 2015 ICC World Cricket League Division Six, Stokes scored an unbeaten 135 against Botswana. He played in the 2016 ICC World Cricket League Division Five tournament, becoming the second highest run scorer in the competition with 247 runs from 6 matches. In September 2018, he was the leading run-scorer for Guernsey in Group"
"C of the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Europe Qualifier tournament, with 132 runs in five matches. Matthew Stokes (cricketer) Matthew Stokes (born 7 October 1995) is a cricketer who plays for Guernsey. He played in the 2014 ICC World Cricket League Division Five tournament. In May 2015 he participated in the 2015 ICC Europe Division One tournament. On 8 September 2015 in the 2015 ICC World Cricket League Division Six, Stokes scored an unbeaten 135 against Botswana. He played in the 2016 ICC World Cricket League Division Five tournament, becoming the second highest run scorer in the competition with 247"
"and scored 17 not out in his only innings. Ben Coad Benjamin Oliver Coad (born 10 January 1994) is an English cricketer, contracted to play for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Coad was born on 10 January 1994 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. He was educated at Thirsk School and Sixth Form College, a state secondary school in Sowerby, Thirsk, North Yorkshire. Coad made his county debut on 2 June 2013 in the 2013 Yorkshire Bank 40 fixture against Gloucestershire. His maiden first-class match was for Yorkshire against Durham at the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street, which started on 20 June 2016."
"Stan Stoker John Stanley ""Stan"" Stoker (29 May 1944 – 10 October 2015) was an English cricketer. Stoker was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast. He was born in Bearpark, County Durham. Stoker made his debut in the Minor Counties cricket for Dorset, first appearing for the county in the 1966 Minor Counties Championship against Wiltshire. He played Minor counties cricket for Dorset from 1966 to 1968, making 14 Minor Counties Championship appearances. He later joined his native county of Durham, making his debut for the county against Cumberland in the 1973 Minor Counties Championship. He played Minor counties"
"Ben Foakes Benjamin Thomas Foakes (born 15 February 1993) is an English cricketer. Foakes is a right-handed batsman who fields as a wicket-keeper. He made his international debut for the England cricket team in November 2018. He was born in Colchester, Essex and educated at Tendring Technology College. His father was English football Premier League referee Peter Foakes. During the 2011 English season, Foakes made his debut for Essex in a first-class match against the touring Sri Lankans at the County Ground, Chelmsford. He was dismissed for 5 runs in Essex's first-innings by Thissara Perera. He took three catches from"
"in the top provincial competition. Former Proteas wicketkeeper Mark Boucher who currently holds the Test Record for most dismissals by a wicketkeeper hails from East London. Buffalo Park Stadium in East London hosted a match during the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2003 and two matches of the 2009 Indian Premier League. The Buffalo Road Running Club of East London has created two established events that have gained international recognition. They are the Old Mutual Buffalo 42,2 km marathon, which is held in February/March each year, and South Africa's oldest 160 km extreme ultra marathon, the Washie, over a picturesque"
"Graham Stokes (cricketer) Graham Stokes (22 March 1858 – 19 December 1921) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club in the early 1880s. Stokes was born at Greenwich in Kent, the son of Henry Graham Stokes, Proctor to the Admiralty and solicitor, and his wife Elizabeth Sewell. He made his first-class debut for Kent against Surrey in 1880. He made three further first-class appearances in 1851, against Derbyshire, Lancashire, and Surrey. Stokes scored 39 runs in his four matches, with a top score of 27. Outside of cricket he worked as a solicitor. He"
"in 2000 with Lancashire in the first division. They won the 2011 County Championship, closing a gap of 77 years since the club's last outright title in 1934. In 1895, Archie MacLaren scored 424 in an innings for Lancashire, which remains the highest score by an Englishman in first-class cricket. Johnny Briggs, whose career lasted from 1879 to 1900, was the first player to score 10,000 runs and take 1,000 wickets for Lancashire. Ernest Tyldesley, younger brother of Johnny Tyldesley, is the club's leading run-scorer with 34,222 runs in 573 matches for Lancashire between 1909 and 1936. Fast bowler Brian"
"Joe Denly both made over a thousand runs in first-class cricket in 2015 with Denly making the highest score for the county. Daniel Bell-Drummond scored three first-class centuries during the season and led the team in List A runs. Northeast scored a county record high score of 114 runs in the Twenty20 competition. Matt Coles led the bowling statistics with 100 wickets across all competitions during the season, including 67 in first-class matches. Coles took a hattrick in the Royal London One Day Cup quarter final loss to Surrey. Mitchell Claydon led the Twenty20 bowling statistics. Kent County Cricket Club"
"you are doing well ... it's a unique environment."" After winning the 2015 Ashes Test Match with Australia at Edgbaston, England captain Alastair Cook commented ""The Edgbaston crowd was up there with the loudest I can remember. With some of the chants, even guys who have played a fair bit of cricket were looking at each other and realising how special it was. Edgbaston has been a fantastic venue for us."" The record attendance at a County Championship match at Edgbaston is 28,000 against Lancashire in the championship-winning season of 1951, and the record for a single day of a"
"qualify for a work permit. The Second XI coach at the club is former player Min Patel whilst Jason Weaver is the high performance director in charge of the club's academy. Former player Mark Ealham is a part-time coach with the club, also spending time coaching at The King's School, Canterbury. Frank Woolley, who played for Kent between 1906 and 1938, holds the record for the most appearances, most career runs and most runs in a season for the county. He is the only man to score more than 100 centuries for Kent with 122 and is the county's fifth"
"the list of all time run scorers for Kent with 26,818 and scored 53 centuries for the County which remains the sixth highest number scored for Kent in first-class cricket. Against Worcestershire in 1904 he became the first player to score a century in both innings of a match for Kent, a feat he repeated twice more for the County. His innings of 204 against Hampshire at Tonbridge in 1907 was at the time a record for Kent, a record which he went on to twice exceed, scoring 218 not out against Essex in 1913 at the County Ground, Leyton"
"play for Kent from 2005 to 2007, playing parts of each season when not appearing for the South African side. He returned to England in 2008 when he signed for Northamptonshire as a Kolpak player. While playing for Northants he set a record for the side's best Twenty20 bowling figures, taking 6/21 against Worcestershire in 2008. He also achieved his best Twenty20 batting performance in the same game (66 not out). He became captain of the county in 2010 after fellow South African Nicky Boje resigned, remaining captain until after the 2012 season when he was replaced by Stephen Peters."