Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricket team

The combined team's first match was against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's in 1839, in which Edward Sayres took his only ten-wicket match haul, and in 1848 they played a game against Gentlemen of England at the same venue, in which William Hammersley took ten wickets. ==20th century==

The team later undertook overseas tours in the middle part of the twentieth century, but played only two first-class games outside Britain, both being at Sabina Park, during the tour of Jamaica in 1938. Kenneth Weekes made his first-class debut for Jamaica in the first of these, scoring 106 in the second innings. After a thirty-year gap, the Oxford and Cambridge team returned to first-class cricket in 1968, with a match against the touring Australians, and for a quarter of a century thereafter the team had fairly regular matches against touring teams at either the University Parks in Oxford or Fenner's in Cambridge, but playing no other first-class games. The team's last match was in 1992, when they played the Pakistanis. There was a similar combined team known as British Universities which played in the Benson & Hedges Cup, a limited overs competition, between 1975 and 1998. At first, this team was sometimes called Oxford and Cambridge Universities, or Oxbridge, but it was not first-class. ==See also==