[1] A number of notable cricketers played for the RAF team in its first-class days.
Their side for the first such game, against Rest of England at Eastbourne in September 1922, included no fewer than eight current or future Test cricketers: Jack Hobbs, Wally Hardinge, Frank Woolley, Percy Fender, Harold Gilligan, George Geary, Charlie Parker and Abe Waddington (though none of them were currently serving in the RAF).
[2] However, after this festival game, the RAF did not play another first-class match for five years.
Douglas Bader's only match of first-class cricket came for the RAF against the Army at The Oval in 1931.
[3] Since the 1940s, the RAF side has continued to compete in minor cricket.