It is the oldest and perhaps the most famous of the 'wandering' cricket clubs (without a home ground), and is well known for its historically aristocratic membership and its colours of black, red and gold, symbolising the motto "Out of darkness, through fire, into light".

Recent Governors of I Zingari have included Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham (1956 to 1977), Alec Douglas-Home (1977 to 1989), George Mann (1989 to ?

Its club colours are black, red and gold, symbolizing the motto "out of darkness, through fire, into light".

The Australian team still plays approximately 70 fixtures each year against other club, school and representative sides.

In the 1924 novel by Michael Arlen The Green Hat the protagonist has a friend (Napier Harpenden) who wears ‘…his faded I Zingari tie…’