Depending on the circumstances of each individual match, the club was recognised as holding first-class status until 2020.

The club has three men's teams (Blues, Crusaders and the Colleges XI) and one women's team (from the incorporation of Cambridge University Women's Cricket Club (CUWCC) in 2000) which altogether play nearly 100 days of cricket each season.

In 2020, the MCCU competitions were cancelled due to Coronavirus restrictions and funding from MCC ceased.

The first team four-day University Match retained its first-class status until 2020 and alternates between being held at Fenner's and The Parks.

Over the years, a number of independent student clubs have been formed such as Magpies, Chaffinches, Crusaders, Inexpressibles, Quidnuncs, Perambulators and Etceteras, to name a few and they have played fixtures against the colleges and other wandering sides.

The Cambridge Centre of Cricketing Excellence (UCCE) team played 27 first-class matches between 2001 and 2009.

Subsequently, as the Cambridge Marylebone Cricket Club University, three First Class fixtures were played each season until 2014 when this was reduced to two.

[needs update] Only the first-class and List A matches played at the ground by Cambridge University are recorded in the table.