Singapore played regular fixtures against other British colonies in Asia beginning in the late 19th century, notably participating in the interport matches.

[6] The Singapore Cricket Club eventually began to play against teams from other parts of British Malaya such as Penang, Perak and Kuala Lumpur[6] and this eventually led to an invitation from Hong Kong to send a team there, which saw the beginning of the long-running series of "Interport matches".

In 1970, the Saudara Cup match against Malaysia was played for the first time, this continues annually to the present day.

Also that year, Singapore played an MCC side captain by Tony Lewis and featuring Geoff Boycott.

[6] Singapore took part in the first ICC Trophy in England in 1979 but could only finish fourth in their first round group after only beating Argentina.

[5] The final Interport Match took place in Singapore in 1987, with Hong Kong beating the home side.

They returned to the ICC Trophy for the 1990 tournament in the Netherlands, beating Malaysia and Israel during the event,[6] and failing to progress past the first round.

[12] Singapore began playing in the Tuanku Ja'afar Cup in 1991, an annual tournament against Malaysia, Hong Kong and Thailand.

They hosted the ACC Trophy in 2002, beating the Maldives and Thailand (by 325 runs) but again failing to progress beyond the first round, a performance they repeated in 2004.

They didn't progress beyond the first round of the 2007 ACC Twenty20 Cup, beating only Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia, but captain Chaminda Ruwan did make the highest score of the tournament.

[19] During the tournament Singapore finished third in Group A, therefore failing to progress to the semi-finals and a chance to qualify for the 2010 Asian Games.

Hosting the 2012 tournament, they ran out winners, moving them up to Division Four and keeping their hopes of World Cup qualification alive.

Singapore has decided to dedicate their strengths in to their SEA GAMES team, where Mohammad Yusof Bin Aslam (Captain) has chosen not to participate due to conflict of interest.

On 26 April 2018, ICC released in a press conference that all the men's T20 matches will get T20I status starting from 1 January 2019.