Kent County Cricket Club part in the competition again in 2018. Kent's main ground is the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury. This ground has been used by the club since 1847 and Kent have played over 500 first-class matches at the ground. It is famous for having a tree, the St Lawrence Lime, on the playing field. The original tree, around which the ground was built, was broken in two by high winds in January 2005 and replaced by a smaller replacement lime tree later in the same year. The ground hosts the annual Canterbury Cricket Week, the oldest cricket festival in the world.
Tree cricket having a chirping rate highly correlated with ambient temperature. This relationship is known as Dolbear's Law. Tree cricket Tree crickets are insects of order Orthoptera. These crickets are in the subfamily Oecanthinae of the family Gryllidae. This subfamily contains seven genera. They live in trees and shrubs, for which they are well camouflaged. These crickets are nocturnal and can be found on every continent except Antarctica. In Europe Tree Crickets have been expanding northwards and had reached the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands by 2010 and in August 2015 the first population was found in mainland England at