Cambridge University Past and Present
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| Personnel | |
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| Captain |
 Darshan Chohan
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| Coach |
Chris Scott
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| Team information | |
| Founded | 1820 |
| Home ground | Fenner's |
| History | |
| First-class debut | Cambridge Town Club in 1817 at Parker's Piece, Cambridge |
| Official website: | www |
Cambridge University Cricket Club, first recorded in 1817, is the representative cricket club for students of the University of Cambridge. Depending on the circumstances of each individual match, the club has always been recognised as holding important or first-class status: i.e., it is classified as an important team by substantial sources from 1817 to 1894; and as an official first-class team from 1895. The university played List A cricket in 1972 and 1974 only. It has not played top-level Twenty20 cricket.
With some 1,200 members, home matches are played at Fenner's. The club has two men's teams (Blues and the Crusaders) and one women's team which altogether play nearly 100 days of cricket each season. The inaugural University Match between Cambridge and Oxford University Cricket Club was played in 1827 and the match is now the club's sole first-class fixture each season.
The club has also operated as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence which included Anglia Ruskin University. This was re-branded as the Cambridge Marylebone Cricket Club prior to the 2010 season when its governance was transferred from the England and Wales Cricket Board to MCC. Both of its male and female teams play in the British Universities & Colleges Sport competitions. The club also oversees and manages the annual inter-college 'Cuppers' cricket competition.
The earliest reference to cricket at the University of Cambridge is in 1710. A Cambridge University team played against an Eton College team in 1754 and 1755, although those were minor matches. It is not known if the Eton teams were of present or past pupils. Cambridge University began an annual series against Cambridge Town Club, which evolved into the original Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club, on 30 May 1817. It is with this game that both teams first acquired important match status.
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