Cricket is first recorded as being played at the Alexandra Sports Club in January 1949, at a time when Harare was called Salisbury, and was the capital of the British colony of
Southern Rhodesia. It may have been played earlier. The inaugural first-class match on the ground was in October 1990, when a
Young Zimbabwe team played a three-day game against
Pakistan B (which held
first-class status). Beginning with the
1993–94 Logan Cup, the Alexandra Sports Club began to host matches in top-level domestic competitions, generally for teams based in the
Mashonaland region (which includes Harare).
Mashonaland,
Mashonaland A,
Mashonaland Country Districts,
Mashonaland Under-24s,
CFX Academy, and
Westerns all played occasional
Logan Cup or
domestic one-day games at the venue, with the most recent such fixture coming in May 2009. The Alexandra Sports Club has hosted a number of fixtures for
Zimbabwe A, including a first-class game against
South Africa A in 1994, a series of games against
England A in 1999, and a one-day game against
Namibia in 2002. In April 2000, the ground hosted three matches in the
ICC Emerging Nations Tournament, two featuring Zimbabwe A (against
Denmark and the
Netherlands) and one between the Netherlands and
Scotland. ==Records==