Category:Former major cricket clubs

This category has been created to hold articles about cricket clubs that played major matches in the past, but which do not hold first-class or List A status in the 21st century. Some of the clubs are extant while others have folded, though some of the latter have been refounded as minor clubs. The initial purpose of the category was to identify clubs and/or teams from the 18th and 19th centuries which played "great matches" (the term in common currency at the time) that formed the historical record of major cricket.

Note that "first-class cricket" is one form of major cricket along with historic single wicket and the modern forms of List A and Twenty20. Although the term was used loosely for a long time in the 19th century, first-class cricket per se did not exist officially until 1895 in Great Britain and until 1947 in the rest of the world.