Many great names of Australian and South Australian cricket have played for the Adelaide Cricket Club: Badcock, Causby, Cunningham, Gillespie, Grimmett, Giffen, Hogg, Hammond, Nobes, Sincock and Woodcock have played.

International Test Cricketers who have played for Adelaide include Chauhan, Greenidge, Mendis and White.

[1] Record breaking South Australian Jockey John McGowan (see Brooklyn Park) was also a long term player and B Grade Captain of the club.

Other grounds used by the club include Park 23 and Immanuel College.

Today the club fields four senior men's teams and four junior boy's teams in the South Australian Cricket Association competition.