[citation needed] The Magdalen Ground was used for the University Cricket Club's first match in 1829, and remain in regular use until 1880.

[7][8] The pavilion was designed by Thomas G. Jackson, architect of many nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Oxford buildings, including the university's Examination Schools.

The University Match is the only one in which a true OUCC team takes part: i.e., composed entirely of current Oxford students.

[citation needed] The Oxford University Centre of Cricketing Excellence (OUCCE) team played 26 first-class matches (not including one abandoned) from 2001 to 2009.

[10] As Oxford Marylebone Cricket Club University, the team has played sixteen first-class matches from 2010 to 2016.