British Universities cricket team

The British Universities cricket team is a cricket team whose players are drawn from university sides primarily in Great Britain as the name suggests, but not exclusively those of Oxford and Cambridge. The team played under the title of Combined Universities until 1995.

Combined Universities' first matches in senior cricket came in the 1975 Benson & Hedges Cup. In their first game, on 3 May, they beat Worcestershire by 66 runs thanks largely to an outstanding all-round performance by Imran Khan, who top-scored for the team with 35 then returned figures of 8.3–6–4–4 with the ball. From 1975 to 1992 inclusive, the team played only in this competition. Perhaps their most successful year was 1989, in which a team led by future England captain Mike Atherton and containing two other future Test batsmen (Nasser Hussain and Steve James) beat Surrey and Worcestershire in the group stages, then fell short by just 3 runs against Somerset in the quarter-finals.

June 1993 saw the team make its first-class debut, against the Australians at The Parks. The tourists won by 166 runs, but Russell Cake made a career-best 108 for the students. Combined Universities also played first-class games against the New Zealanders and the West Indians in the following two seasons, both of which were drawn, as well as continuing in the Benson & Hedges Cup.

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