[1][2][3] The combined team's first match was against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's in 1839, in which Edward Sayres took his only ten-wicket match haul,[4] and in 1848 they played a game against Gentlemen of England at the same venue, in which William Hammersley took ten wickets.
[6] Kenneth Weekes made his first-class debut for Jamaica in the first of these, scoring 106 in the second innings.
[7] After a thirty-year gap, the Oxford and Cambridge team returned to first-class cricket in 1968, with a match against the touring Australians,[8] and for a quarter of a century thereafter the team had fairly regular matches against touring teams at either the University Parks in Oxford or Fenner's in Cambridge, but playing no other first-class games.
[9] There was a similar combined team known as British Universities which played in the Benson & Hedges Cup, a limited overs competition, between 1975 and 1998.
At first, this team was sometimes called Oxford and Cambridge Universities, or Oxbridge, but it was not first-class.