List of Surrey cricket captains

Surrey County Cricket Club is one of eighteen county teams in England that play first-class cricket. The club is based in Kennington (formerly part of the county of Surrey). It was founded in 1845 after securing a lease on The Oval for its use as a cricket field. Surrey played their first first-class cricket match in 1846 against Marylebone Cricket Club and have gone on to win the County Championship on nineteen occasions, a figure bettered only by Yorkshire. The club have played both List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket since their introductions into the English game in 1963 and 2003 respectively. The player appointed club captain leads the side in all their fixtures, except when unavailable through injury or some other reason. Players who captained the side as substitute for the official club captain are not included in the list below.

History

Since attaining first-class status, Surrey have named 41 official captains, including two who have been appointed twice: George Strachan in the late nineteenth century and Errol Holmes, who had spells either side of the Second World War.

List of club captains

  • Years denotes the years for which the player was named as official club captain for Surrey.
  • First denotes the date of the first match in which the player is recorded as captaining Surrey.
  • Last denotes the date of the last match in which the player is recorded as captaining Surrey.
  • FC denotes the number of first-class matches in which the player is recorded as captaining Surrey.
  • LA denotes the number of List A matches in which the player captained Surrey.
  • T20 denotes the number of Twenty20 matches in which the player captained Surrey.
  • Total denotes the total number of first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches in which the player is recorded as captaining Surrey.

Note: In the club's earliest years, match scorecards do not always identify which player captained the side.

No. Name Nationality Years[1] First Last FC LA T20 Total
1Charles Hoare England1846–1850 20 May 1850[nb 1]25 July 1850 55
2Frederick Miller England1851–1857 28 September 18544 July 1867 5454
3Frederick Burbidge England1858–1865 30 July 18603 August 1865 1717
4Edward Dowson England1866 16 July 186330 July 1866 88
5William Collyer England1867 30 May 186722 August 1867 1010
6Charles Calvert England1868 11 June 186827 August 1868 1212
7Swainson Akroyd England1869–1870 14 June 186920 June 1870 1010
8John Gregory England1871 25 August 187028 August 1871 1818
9George Strachan England1872–1875
1877–1878
13 May 187219 July 1880 5454
10Allen Chandler England1876 12 August 187521 August 1876 99
11A. P. Lucas England1879 16 July 187427 July 1882 4141
12John Shuter England1880–1893 13 August 187721 June 1909 274274
13Kingsmill Key England1894–1899 31 July 188113 June 1904 288288
14Digby Jephson England1900–1902 10 May 189427 June 1904 165165
15Livingstone Walker England1903 23 August 190031 August 1903 5757
In 1904, no club captain appointment was made.
16Lord Dalmeny[nb 2] England1905–1907 6 August 190323 August 1908 9494
17H. D. G. Leveson-Gower England1908–1910 19 August 189523 June 1920 122122
18Morice Bird England1911–1913 21 June 190913 August 1921 127127
19Cyril Wilkinson England1914–1920 13 May 190925 May 1920 5353
20Percy Fender England1921–1931 1 May 19201 Jul 1936 343343
21Douglas Jardine England1932–1933 20 July 192129 July 1933 141141
22Errol Holmes England1934–1938
1947–1948
16 August 192422 June 1955 198198
23Monty Garland-Wells England1939 14 July 192830 August 1939 130130
From 1940 to 1945, no club captain appointments were made due to the Second World War.
24Nigel Harvie Bennett England1946 4 May 19464 September 1946 3131
25Michael Barton England1949–1951 5 May 194823 June 1954 110110
26Stuart Surridge England1952–1956 7 June 194710 October 1959 254254
27Peter May England1957–1962 19 July 195017 July 1963 208208
28Micky Stewart England1963–1972 14 July 195410 September 1972 49875573
29John Edrich England1973–1977 3 September 19586 September 1978 410149559
30Roger Knight England1978–1983 24 August 19682 September 1984 174161335
31Geoff Howarth New Zealand1984–1985 5 June 197117 July 1985 188170358
32Pat Pocock England1986 1 July 196413 September 1986 485318803
33Ian Greig England1987–1991 25 April 198726 July 1992 157118275
34Alec Stewart England1992–1996 8 August 19819 July 2003 266321587
35Adam Hollioake England1997–2003 2 August 199231 August 2004 24324114498
36Jonathan Batty England2004 6 July 199723 September 2009 27817051448
37Mark Butcher[nb 3][nb 4] England2005–2009 28 July 199110 July 2009 18218813383
38Rory Hamilton-Brown[nb 5] England2010–2012 24 July 200517 June 2012
39Graeme Smith[nb 6] South Africa2013–14 17 April 201318 May 2014 81211
40Gareth Batty England2015–2017 2015
41Rory Burns[nb 7] England2018– 2018
  1. Prior to 1850, Surrey scorecards do not indicate who captained the side, but as club captain it was probably Charles Hoare.
  2. Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, was known as Lord Dalmeny at the time of his captaincy.
  3. In the absence through injury of Mark Butcher for most of the 2005 season, Mark Ramprakash led the side.
  4. In the absence through injury of Mark Butcher for most of the 2009 season, Stewart Walters led the side.
  5. In his absence on compassionate leave for part of the 2012 season, Gareth Batty generally led the side. In August 2012 Hamilton-Brown announced that he was relinquishing the captaincy. Surrey said that Batty would continue as captain for the remainder of the season.[2]
  6. Smith was absent through injury for most of both 2013 and 2014. In 2013 Gareth Batty deputised, and in 2014 Gary Wilson did so.
  7. Jade Dernbach to lead the side in T20 matches.[3]

References

Bibliography

Surrey County Cricket Club Yearbook, 2005. (No ISBN given.)

Notes

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