The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Eastern Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy.

[citation needed] The earliest reference to cricket in the county is a match in August 1741 at Woburn Park between a Bedfordshire XI and a combined Northants and Huntingdonshire XI.

[2] Woburn Cricket Club, under the leadership of the Duke of Bedford, became prominent in the 1740s and took part in a number of "great matches" against opponents such as London Cricket Club.

The following Bedfordshire cricketers also made an impact on the first-class game: Rex Alston, who captained the side in 1932, subsequently became famous as a BBC radio commentator on cricket and other sports.

The club have no fixed home, but most of their matches are played in Wardown Park, Luton.