List of Kent County Cricket Club players
This is a list of cricketers who have played for Kent County Cricket Club in top-class matches. The county club has its origin in the Kent Club founded at Canterbury on 6 August 1842. A similar organisation was formed at Maidstone in 1859 and, in 1870, these two amalgamated to create the present county club. Like the Kent county teams formed by earlier organisations, including the old Town Malling club, the county club has always been classified as a top-class team. The players listed have played for the club in first-class cricket, List A cricket or Twenty20 cricket matches.
Higher Common Ground
The first first-class cricket match was held on the ground in 1844, when a team of Married cricketers played a Single's team. Kent County Cricket Club first used the ground in 1845 and county matches were played on the ground until 1880 with Kent playing 28 matches in total on the ground, 18 of them against Sussex.