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Surrey's 21-Year Oval Lease and Champion County Years — F.P. Miller's Captaincy, 1855

Surrey CCC

1855-04-01

In 1855 Surrey County Cricket Club secured a fresh 21-year lease on the Kennington Oval, the market-garden site they had occupied since 1845. Under their amateur captain F.P. Miller — first elected to lead the side in 1851 — Surrey would be acclaimed Champion County in 1850, 1854, 1856 and 1857 and recognised as the leading side again in 1858, 1859 and 1864, dominating the decade through professional strength and Miller's tactical command.

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Surrey County Cricket Club Formally Founded — Horns Tavern, Kennington, August 1845

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1845-08-22

On 22 August 1845, around a hundred Surrey cricketers met at the Horns Tavern in Kennington and resolved to constitute themselves as the Surrey County Cricket Club. The meeting confirmed the lease of a market garden at Kennington — what would become the Oval — and laid the foundations for one of the strongest first-class counties of the next two centuries.

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