List of Surrey cricket captains

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates 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 21 occasions (plus one shared), 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	First	Last	FC	LA	T20	Total
	Charles Hoare	England	1846–1850	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	5			5
	Frederick Miller	England	1851–1857	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	54			54
	Frederick Burbidge	England	1858–1865	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Edward Dowson	England	1866	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	William Collyer	England	1867	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Charles Calvert	England	1868	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	Swainson Akroyd	England	1869–1870	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	John Gregory	England	1871	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
	George Strachan	England	1872–1875 1877–1878	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
10	Allen Chandler	England	1876	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
11	A. P. Lucas	England	1879	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
12	John Shuter	England	1880–1893	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	274			274
13	Kingsmill Key	England	1894–1899	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	288			288
14	Digby Jephson	England	1900–1902	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	165			165
15	Livingstone Walker	England	1903	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
In 1904, no club captain appointment was made.
16	Lord Dalmeny	England	1905–1907	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
17	H. D. G. Leveson-Gower	England	1908–1910	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	122			122
18	Morice Bird	England	1911–1913	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	127			127
19	Cyril Wilkinson	England	1914–1920	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
20	Percy Fender	England	1921–1931	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	343			343
21	Douglas Jardine	England	1932–1933	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	141			141
22	Errol Holmes	England	1934–1938 1947–1948	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	198			198
23	Monty Garland-Wells	England	1939	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	130			130
From 1940 to 1945, no club captain appointments were made due to the Second World War.
24	Nigel Harvie Bennett	England	1946	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
25	Michael Barton	England	1949–1951	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	110			110
26	Stuart Surridge	England	1952–1956	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	254			254
27	Peter May	England	1957–1962	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	208			208
28	Micky Stewart	England	1963–1972	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	498			573
29	John Edrich	England	1973–1977	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	410	149		559
30	Roger Knight	England	1978–1983	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	174	161		335
31	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand	1984–1985	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	188	170		358
32	Pat Pocock	England	1986	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	485	318		803
33	Ian Greig	England	1987–1991	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	157	118		275
34	Alec Stewart	England	1992–1996	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	266	321		587
35	Adam Hollioake	England	1997–2003	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	243	241		498
36	Jonathan Batty	England	2004	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	278	170		448
37	Mark Butcher	England	2005–2009	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	182	188		383
38	Rory Hamilton-Brown	England	2010–2012	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
39	Graeme Smith	South Africa	2013–14	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
40	Gareth Batty	England	2015–2017	Template:Dts
41	Rory Burns	England	2018–	Template:Dts

References

Bibliography

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