Oxford University Cricket Club

The Oxford University Cricket Club ( OUCC ) is a first-class cricket team that represents the University of Oxford. Its home games he wears in the University Parks ( usually short The Parks ) in Oxford from.

Since 2001, he has so far together with the team at Oxford Brookes University in Oxford University Centre of Cricketing Excellence ( Oxford UCCE ) risen when in matches in the MCC Universities Championship and first-class matches against the first-class county clubs under this common name and organization will be played. The OUCC but is otherwise an independent Cricket Club.

The University of Oxford had its first-class cricket debut in 1827 in the match against Cambridge University Cricket Club, the first University match at all. This first-class meeting and a number of other games wearing the OUCC continue regardless of the Oxford UCCE from.

Cricket players who have competed in the first university selected team against the University of Cambridge have the right to an Oxford Blue.

Already Cricket was played at the University of Oxford at the latest in 1729. This is known by the English lexicographer Samuel Johnson, who later reported his student days that he had played this year, cricket at Oxford University.