In February 2022, the MCC announced that, from 2023, the twenty-over fixtures would no longer be held at Lord's.
[1] Following opposition from a section of its membership, the club decided that the twenty-over matches would continue to be held at Lord's in 2023 to allow time for further consultation.
[5] The match was first played in 1827, at Lord's, at the instigation of Charles Wordsworth who was also responsible for founding the Boat Race in 1829.
(From 1941 to 1945, a one-day fixture was played at Lord's, but these matches are not counted in the official records.)
Lord's was to become its permanent venue from 1851 to 2000, but five of the early matches were played in the vicinity of Oxford.
[6] From the 1830s until 1939, it was among the most important fixtures of the season, attracting large crowds and widespread press coverage.
It was still a major social, as well as sporting, event as recently as just after World War II .
According to The Cricketer (1954), the 1954 match attracted over 13,000 paying spectators as well as MCC members.
Despite never matriculating, Tom Wills was allowed to play for Cambridge in the 1856 match.
F. C. Cobden took the last three Oxford wickets in consecutive balls to give Cambridge victory by 2 runs.
Oxford had run up a good score, and a torrential storm for much of the night rendered the pitch almost unplayable, so that Cambridge were quickly dismissed in two innings.
William Yardley of Cambridge has the distinction of scoring the first two hundreds made in the series: 100 in 1870 in Cobden's Match and 130 in 1872.
Robin Marlar's bowling figures for Cambridge are worth noting: Players who became (or in a few instances were already) famous to have appeared in the match include: Alfred Lyttelton (Cantab.
At the time of writing, the most recent Oxbridge international cricketers are Ed Smith (Cantab.
From 2001 the match has been replaced by two fixtures each year: a one-day match played at Lord's and a four-day fixture (first-class up to and including 2020) played in alternate years at Fenner's in Cambridge and The Parks in Oxford.