Kent County Cricket Club in 1906 Kent County Cricket Club in 1906 Kent County Cricket Club's 1906 season was the seventeenth season in which the county competed in the County Championship and saw the county win their first Championship title. Kent played 25 first-class cricket matches during the season, losing only four matches overall and only two matches in the 1906 County Championship. They finished equal on points with Yorkshire and Surrey but won the title on the percentage of finished matches won. Wisden considered that there was a "general consensus" Kent were "the best county side of the year" and that they had "shown the
County cricket for four days. The eighteen first-class counties are the top league cricket teams. They are named after historic English counties and include one Welsh county, Glamorgan. The English first-class counties are: The full name of the cricket team is usually formed from the name of the county followed by the words County Cricket Club, which are often abbreviated as CCC. The opening first-class game of an English county cricket season has traditionally been played at Lord's between the MCC and the Champion County (the club that won the County Championship the previous year). When the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) plays