page_title: England cricket team
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: England cricket team / History
caption_attribution_description: The w:All-England Eleven in 1847. Left to right: w:Joe Guy, George Parr, w:Will Martingell, w:Alfred Mynn, William Denison, w:Jemmy Dean, William Clarke, w:Nicholas Felix, w:Oliver Pell, w:William Hillyer, w:William Lillywhite, w:William Dorrinton, w:Fuller Pilch and Tom Sewell.
context_page_description: The England cricket team represents England and Wales in international cricket. Since 1997, it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board, having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club since 1903. England, as a founding nation, is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council with Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International status. Until the 1990s, Scottish and Irish players also played for England as those countries were not yet ICC members in their own right.
  England and Australia were the first teams to play a Test match, and along with South Africa, these nations formed the Imperial Cricket Conference on 15 June 1909. England and Australia also played the first ODI on 5 January 1971. England's first T20I was played on 13 June 2005, once more against Australia.
  As of 17 August 2020, England have played 1,028 Test matches, winning 374 and losing 305. In Test series against Australia, England play for The Ashes, one of the most famous trophies in all of sport, and they have won the urn on 32 occasions. England have also played 749 ODIs, winning 377.
context_section_description: The first recorded incidence of a team with a claim to represent England comes from 9 July 1739 when an "All-England" team, which consisted of 11 gentlemen from any part of England exclusive of Kent, played against "the Unconquerable County" of Kent and lost by a margin of "very few notches". Such matches were repeated on numerous occasions for the best part of a century.
  In 1846 William Clarke formed the All-England Eleven. This team eventually competed against a United All-England Eleven with annual matches occurring between 1847 and 1856. These matches were arguably the most important contest of the English season if judged by the quality of the players.
caption: The All-England Eleven in 1846
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