page_title: Cambridge University Cricket Club
section_title: Cricket at Cambridge University
hierarchical_section_title: Cambridge University Cricket Club / Cricket at Cambridge University
caption_attribution_description: English: The Cambridge University Cricket Club team.
context_page_description: Cambridge University Cricket Club, first recorded in 1817, is the representative cricket club for students of the University of Cambridge. Depending on the circumstances of each individual match, the club has always been recognised as holding first-class status. The university played List A cricket in 1972 and 1974 only. It has not played top-level Twenty20 cricket.
  With some 1,200 members, home matches are played at Fenner's. The club has three men's teams and one women's team which altogether play nearly 100 days of cricket each season. The inaugural University Match between Cambridge and Oxford University Cricket Club was played in 1827 and the match is now the club's sole first class fixture each season.
  The club has also operated as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence which included players from Cambridge University and was Anglia Polytechnic University, now Anglia Ruskin University. This was re-branded as the Cambridge MCC University prior to the 2010 season, when its governance was transferred from the England and Wales Cricket Board to MCC.
context_section_description: Players who represent Cambridge in the university match against Oxford are awarded a "blue", which recognises sporting achievement at the highest level whilst a student at the university. Currently (to 2018), Cambridge meets Oxford at Lord's in first-class and limited overs matches and the "blue" is awarded to anyone who plays for Cambridge in either fixture.
  Those representing the Second XI (the Crusaders) are eligible for a 'Colour' if they represent the Crusaders against Oxford's 'Tics.  Despite having a large winter training squad, and many players representing the University over the summer months (up to 50 players from the training squad and College level) rarely are more than a total of 12 Blues and 12 Colours awarded.  Women cricketers are awarded a Half-Blue for playing in the one-day match at Lord's and a discretionary full Blue if any of them meet the relevant criteria laid down by the Blues Committee.
caption: The cricket team of 1899
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