purpose of this list is to identify all historically significant English cricket clubs and teams which played in significant matches, some of which may...

English cricket List of English cricketers to 1771 List of historically significant English cricket teams Bowen 1970, p. 261. Underdown 2000, p. 4. Middle...

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre; 66-foot) pitch...

at Lord's Cricket Ground in north-west London. The board oversees all levels of cricket in England and Wales, including the national teams: England Men...

First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or...

football or Aussie rules, is played between teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval...

and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and compete for the England cricket team. There have been some historical instances of a separate Welsh team in the 1920–30s...

League Cricket is one significant exception). Baseball domestic leagues have dozens of teams who are split into two "leagues" (akin to pools). Each team plays...

It represents the historic county of Yorkshire. Yorkshire's first team is the most successful in English cricketing history with 33 County Championship...

predominantly via limited overs cricket. In the 50-over format of the game, Australia have won more World Cups than all other teams combined—capturing the 1978...

then current members of the English cricket teams of Oxford and Cambridge resulting in Penn defeating the Oxford-Cambridge team by one hundred runs. This...

there. In addition to cricket, The Oval has hosted a number of other historically significant sporting events. In 1870, it staged the first representative...

of arms of the United Kingdom. Historically they were also quartered with the arms of France, representing the English claim to the French throne, and...

County Cricket Club (rebranded as Durham Cricket in February 2019) is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England...

Ireland men's cricket team represents all of Ireland in international cricket. The Irish Cricket Union, operating under the brand Cricket Ireland, is the...

existence of an inter-county rivalry between teams representative of Kent and Sussex. A Swiss traveller in southern England recorded county cricket as "a...

Backyard cricket, also known as bat ball, street cricket, beach cricket, corridor cricket, garden cricket, gully cricket (on the Indian subcontinent)...

teams have a single innings each, which is restricted to a maximum of twenty overs. Together with first-class and List A cricket, Twenty20 is one of the...

signs of increasing media interest in English cricket during the summer of 1729 as reports of seven matches have survived, compared with four in each of the...

class, paid wages, and relied on cricket as their primary source of income. Most county cricket teams consisted of a mix of amateurs and professionals; the...

Genoa Cricket and Football Club (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒeːnoa]) is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa, Liguria. The team competes...

1883) History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889) History of Test cricket (1890 to 1900) List of Test cricket grounds List of international cricket centuries at...

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) created the cricket tournament Indian Premier League, based on the Twenty20 format of the game. Eight teams participated...

Cricket Board (ECB), making it effectively part of the English cricket system. Glamorgan County Cricket Club is Wales' only first-class county team,...

auction is a significant aspect of modern sports leagues, prominently observed in cricket and baseball, where teams bid to acquire the services of players...

some areas. There are 17 first-class men's county cricket teams that are based on historical English counties. These compete in the County Championship...

fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia. It was designed to combat...

least, historically significant. Generally agreed to be the "first modern representation of cricket", a series of engravings, The Game of Cricket, was made...

modern bat-and-ball games are cricket and baseball, with common roots in the 18th-century games played in England. The teams alternate between "batting"...

This list of first-class cricket records itemises some record team and individual performances in first-class cricket. The list is necessarily selective...