[1] South Brisbane is the equal most successful side in the Queensland Premier Cricket First-grade competition having 21 Premierships alongside Toombul.

It was formed with forty members and a club fee of one guinea was set in order to raise funds to construct a proper South Brisbane cricket ground.

[22] On August 24, 1897, a committee of the club drove around South Brisbane to identify a suitable area to establish a cricket ground and they decided that one could be built in Musgrave Park.

[27] In South Brisbane's first season, 1897–98, the club played six A grade games winning two, losing two, drawing two, and one being forfeited by the opposition.

[28] The club also fielded a B grade side which played four games winning two but forfeiting two of their scheduled games due to being unable to locate a ground to play on,[29] and at the 1898 club general meeting South Brisbane decided to approach the trustees of Musgrave Park about establishing a turf wicket there.

[30] In the 1898–99 season South Brisbane finished bottom of the ladder in the A Grade competition, winning just one of their twelve games and losing the other eleven.

Griffith topping the competition aggregate with 253 runs,[32] although in March 1900 a South Brisbane player was suspended for the remainder of the 1899–1900 season for bad language during a match.

[46] South Brisbane won the A Grade Premiership again in 1903–04,[47] and their bowler Albert Henry had the best bowling average in the season taking 59 wickets at 9.3.

[52] In the 1905–06 season South Brisbane finished second losing only three matches and their bowling was cited as a strength with W. B. Hayes being the standout player for the side scoring 500 runs and taking 84 wickets, the record allround season performance in Brisbane grade cricket at the time.

[58] They also won in 1909–10, achieving four consecutive premierships, with Sidney Redgrave scoring 732 runs to top the competition tally.

[71] On 3 January 1919 the South Brisbane Club organised a game against a side of soldiers returned from the War to welcome them back.

[72] On January 6 the club held a meeting in which plans were made to continue with cricket again due to the end of the war.

[73] A district cricket season commenced that year, with Sidney Redgrave captaining South Brisbane, and they finished top of the ladder,[74] but lost to Valley in the final based on first innings score as the game was washed out.