List of Cambridge UCCE & MCCU players

This is a list of cricketers who have played first-class cricket for Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence (UCCE) and/or Cambridge MCC Universities (MCCU). Players who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University can be found at List of Cambridge University Cricket Club players.

Cambridge UCCE was formed in 2001 by Cambridge University Cricket Club and Anglia Polytechnic University, now Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), with funding and support from Cambridge University and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). It continued until the 2009 season, when the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) took over funding from the ECB, at which point it was renamed Cambridge MCC University.

The team played first-class matches until the end of the 2019 season, at which point matches involving university teams were deemed to be no longer first-class.

The details are the player's usual name followed by the years in which he played for the team in first-class matches.

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Notes

  1. ↑ Matches planned for the 2020 season were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  2. ↑ Ballard, who was born at Harlow in 1988, was educated at Hockerill Anglo-European College and Anglia Ruskin University. He played four first-class matches for Cambridge UCCE and played minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Bedfordshire. He played Second Xi cricket for Surrey and MCC Young Cricketers, and has coached Bedfordshire.
  3. ↑ Born at Hastings in 1996, Guest was educated at St Bede's School and Anglia Ruskin University. He played five first-class matches for the UCCE team between 2017 and 2019, taking eight wickets and scoring 68 runs. He played age-group cricket for Sussex, Second XI Championship cricket for Unicorns in 2017, and has since played National Counties cricket for Cambridgeshire.
  4. ↑ Joslin played twice for the UCCE/MCCU team in first-class matches, as well as appearing for MCC Universities in the Second XI Championship. Born at Leytonstone in 1989, he played age-group cricket for Essex and attended Anglia Ruskin University.
  5. ↑ Nicholson, who was born at Leeds in 1994, was educated at Sedbergh School. He played Minor Counties cricket for Northumberland in 2012, and made one first-class appearance for the MCCU team, scoring one run and bowling 32 wicketless overs.
  6. ↑ Seabrook, who was born at Slough in 1998, was educated at Bottisham Village College and Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridgeshire, before attending Anglia Ruskin University. He played Minor Counties cricket for Cambridgeshire from 2016, and made three first-class appearances for the MCCU team, scoring 94 runs. He played Second XI cricket for Durham in 2018 and was a member of the county's Academy for the 2018 season. He has since played more Minor Counties cricket for Cambridgeshire and in 2023 played for Cornwall.
  7. ↑ Born at Tameside in Manchester, Woolley was educated at St Bede's College in the city before going up to Cambridge University. He played age-group and Second XI cricket for Lancashire, Second XI cricket for Sussex and MCC Universities, and minor counties cricket for Cheshire and Cambridgeshire. As well as eight first-class matches for Cambridge UCCE, he played seven List A matches for Unicorns.
  8. ↑ Born at Leicester in 1988, Yates played Second XI cricket for Leicestershire and Essex, and minor countries cricket for Bedfordshire, before appearing in two first-class matches for Cambridge UCCE whilst studying at Anglia Ruskin University in 2014.

References

  1. ↑ MCC Universities Archived 11 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Marylebone Cricket Club. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  2. ↑ Eddie Ballard, CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 August 2025. (subscription required)
  3. ↑ Callum Guest, CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 June 2025. (subscription required)
  4. ↑ Andrew Joslin, CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 August 2025. (subscription required)
  5. ↑ Grant Nicholson, CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 July 2025 (subscription required)
  6. ↑ Will Rist, CricInfo. Retrieved 6 August 2025.
  7. ↑ Ben Seabrook, CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 June 2025. (subscription required)
  8. ↑ Rob Woolley, CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 August 2025. (subscription required)
  9. ↑ Chad Yates, CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 August 2025. (subscription required)
  10. ↑ Chad Yates, CricInfo. Retrieved 7 August 2025.