The Cricket Club was established on 4 October 1904 and was provided land from the government in King's Park.

It competed with local clubs like the Hong Kong Cricket Club, the Craigengower Cricket Club, the Parsee Cricket Club, Royal Engineers, the Army Ordnance Corps CC and the Civil Service CC Royal Army Medical Corps and HMS Tamar soldiers played with KCC in the South China Morning Post Shield.

The foundation stone of the first Clubhouse was laid on 18 January 1908 by the President and benefactor, Sir Hormusjee N. Mody, who was later presented with an engraved silver trowel to mark the occasion.

[1] Due to World War II, the club did not operate between 1941 and 1946.

Since 1992 it has been the venue of the Hong Kong Cricket Sixes (apart from the 1996 and 1997) editions.