The Cricket Club was founded in 1890. [See reminiscences of J. H. Widdicombe of the early years of the Club in The Griffin, Lent 1907, including the England cricketer and later Prince of Nawanagar, Ranjitsinhji]. Widdicombe remembers: "Up to the year 1897 we had no ground of our own, playing on other College grounds or on Parker's Piece. In the year mentioned the Governing Body, at a cost of some £300, laid out the field south of the quadrangle, which was previously well studded with trees... For some time the ground was in a rather unfinished state, the centre only being mown, while a tent afforded the only shelter. A gradual improvement has, however, been effected, and in 1902 the pavilion was built, partly by subscription."