This is a list of current first-class cricket teams, organised first by country and then alphabetically. A first class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each which is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each.
Where a team plays at more than one home ground, only their main ground is listed here.
Afghanistan
National team: Afghanistan national cricket team1 Beginning in 2017, Afghanistan domestic matches have had first-class and List A status.
Name Home ground Reference Amo Region n/a Band-e-Amir Region n/a Boost Region n/a Kabul Green Kabul National Cricket Stadium, Kabul Mis Ainak Region n/a Speen Ghar Region n/a
Australia
National team: Australia national cricket team
Name Home ground Reference Sheffield Shield teams New South Wales Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Victoria Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne; Junction Oval, St Kilda South Australia Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Queensland Brisbane Cricket Ground (the Gabba), Brisbane Western Australia WACA Ground, Perth Tasmania Bellerive Oval, Hobart Other teams Cricket Australia XI Allan Border Field, Queensland Cricket Australia
Bangladesh National team: Bangladesh national cricket team
Name Home ground Reference Divisional (National Cricket League) Barisal Division Barisal Divisional Stadium, Barisal Chittagong Division Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong Dhaka Division Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Dhaka Metropolis Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Khulna Division Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium, Khulna Rajshahi Division Rajshahi Divisional Stadium, Rajshahi Rangpur Division Rangpur Cricket Garden, Rangpur Sylhet Division Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, Sylhet Zones (Bangladesh Cricket League) Central Zone Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium South Zone Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium, Barisal Divisional Stadium East Zone Sylhet Stadium, Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium North Zone Rajshahi Divisional Stadium, Rangpur Cricket Garden
Notes: Bangladesh A and Bangladeshis matches are also considered first-class.
England and Wales
National team: England cricket team
Name Home ground Reference County teams Derbyshire County Cricket Club County Ground, Derby Durham County Cricket Club Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street Essex County Cricket Club County Cricket Ground, Chelmsford Glamorgan County Cricket Club SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff Gloucestershire County Cricket Club County Cricket Ground, Bristol Hampshire County Cricket Club Rose Bowl, Southampton Kent County Cricket Club St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury Lancashire County Cricket Club Old Trafford, Manchester Leicestershire County Cricket Club Grace Road, Leicester Middlesex County Cricket Club Lord's, London Northamptonshire County Cricket Club County Ground, Northampton Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club Trent Bridge, Nottingham Somerset County Cricket Club County Ground, Taunton Surrey County Cricket Club The Kia Oval, London Sussex County Cricket Club County Cricket Ground, Hove Warwickshire County Cricket Club Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham Worcestershire County Cricket Club New Road, Worcester Yorkshire County Cricket Club Headingley Cricket Ground, Leeds Other team(s) Marylebone Cricket Club Lord's, London MCC
India
National team: India national cricket team
Name Home ground Reference Ranji Trophy teams Andhra Cricket Association Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Vishakhapatnam Assam Cricket Association Nehru Stadium, Guwahati Baroda Cricket Association Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara Bengal Cricket Association Eden Gardens, Kolkata Bihar Cricket Association Moin-ul-Haq Stadium, Patna Chhattisgarh State Cricket Sangh Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium, Naya Raipur Delhi & District Cricket Association Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi Goa Cricket Association Dr R Prasad Stadium, Margao Gujarat Cricket Association Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad Haryana Cricket Association Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala Hyderabad Cricket Association Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad Jammu and Kashmir Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium, Srinagar Jharkhand Cricket Association Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur Karnataka State Cricket Association M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Kerala Cricket Association Fort Maidan, Palakkad Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association Holkar Stadium, Indore Maharashtra Cricket Association Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune Cricket Association of Mizoram Suaka Cricket Stadium, Sihhmui Mumbai Cricket Association Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Orissa Cricket Association Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Punjab Cricket Association Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali Railways Sports Promotion Board Karnail Singh Stadium, Delhi Rajasthan Cricket Association Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Saurashtra Cricket Association Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground, Rajkot Services Cricket Association Palam A Ground, Model Sports Complex, Delhi Tamil Nadu Cricket Association M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Tripura Cricket Association Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Agartala Uttar Pradesh K. D. Singh Babu Stadium, Lucknow Vidarbha Cricket Association VCA Ground, Nagpur
Notes: 1 Rest of India (in the Irani Trophy), India A, and various President's XIs are also adjudged first-class. 2 Makeshift zonal teams are also made and guest teams like England lions also play.
Ireland Since the suspension of the Inter-Provincial Championship after the 2019 season, the only domestic first-class cricket in Ireland has been the Emerald Challenge match, contested in 2024 and 2026 between the Strikers (from Northern Ireland) and the Raiders (from the Republic of Ireland).
New Zealand
National team: New Zealand national cricket team
Name Home ground Reference Auckland Cricket Association Eden Park, Auckland Canterbury Cricket Association Hagley Oval, Christchurch Central Districts Cricket Association McLean Park, Napier Cricket Wellington Basin Reserve, Wellington Northern Districts Cricket Association Seddon Park, Hamilton Otago Cricket Association University Oval, Dunedin
Pakistan
National team: Pakistan national cricket team
Regional first-class teams (Quaid-e-Azam Trophy) Name Home ground ReferenceAbbottabad Region Azad Jammu & Kashmir Region Bahawalpur Region Dera Murad Jamali Region Faisalabad Region Federally Administered Tribal Areas Region Hyderabad Region Islamabad Region Karachi Region Blues Karachi Region Whites Lahore Region Blues Lahore Region Whites Larkana Region Multan Region Peshawar Region Quetta Region Rawalpindi Region Sialkot Region Departmental first-class teams (President's Trophy) Name Home ground ReferenceEshaal Associates Ghani Glass Higher Education Commission Khan Research Laboratories Oil & Gas Development Company Limited Pakistan Television State Bank of Pakistan Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited Water and Power Development Authority
All teams above current as of the 2024–25 season.
South Africa
National team: South Africa national cricket team
Name Home ground Reference CSA 4-Day Series Boland Boland Park, Paarl Border Buffalo Park, East London Easterns Willowmoore Park, Benoni Eastern Province St George's Park, Port Elizabeth Free State Springbok Park, Bloemfontein Gauteng New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg KwaZulu-Natal Coastal Kingsmead, Durban KwaZulu-Natal Inland City Oval, Pietermaritzburg Limpopo Polokwane Cricket Club Ground, Polokwane Mpumalanga Uplands College, White River Northern Cape De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley Northerns Centurion Park, Centurion North West North West Cricket Stadium, Potchefstroom South Western Districts Recreation Ground, Oudtshoorn Western Province Newlands, Cape Town
Sri Lanka
National team: Sri Lanka national cricket team
Major League Tournament teams Name Home ground Reference Ace Capital Cricket Club Badureliya Sports Club Surrey Village Cricket Ground, Maggona Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club Ground, Colombo Burgher Recreation Club Burgher Recreation Club Ground, Colombo Chilaw Marians Cricket Club Colombo Cricket Club Ground, Colombo Colts Cricket Club Colts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo Colombo Cricket Club Colombo Cricket Club Ground, Colombo Kandy Customs Sports Club Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club Welagedara Stadium, Kurunegala Moors Sports Club Moors Sports Club Ground, Colombo Negombo Cricket Club Nondescripts Cricket Club Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo Nugegoda Sports and Welfare Club Panadura Sports Club Panadura Esplanade, Panadura Police Sports Club Police Park Ground, Colombo Ragama Cricket Club Free Trade Zone Sports Complex, Katunayake Sinhalese Sports Club Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Tamil Union Cricket & Athletic Club P. Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo
National Super League 4-Day Tournament teams Name Home ground Reference Colombo District Dambulla District Galle District Jaffna District Kandy District
West Indies
National team: West Indies cricket team
Name Home ground Reference Territorial teams Barbados Cricket AssociationKensington Oval Bridgetown The Guyana Cricket Board Bourda, Georgetown Jamaica Cricket Association Sabina Park, Kingston Leeward Islands Cricket Association Antigua Recreation Ground, Antigua Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board of Control Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia Other teams Combined Campuses and Colleges Three Ws Oval, Bridgetown West Indies Academy
Note: West Indies 'A' and West Indian XI matches are also considered first-class.
Zimbabwe
National team: Zimbabwe national cricket team
Name Home ground Reference Mashonaland Eagles Harare Sports Club, Harare Matabeleland Tuskers Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Mid West Rhinos Kwekwe Sports Club, Kwekwe Mountaineers Mutare Sports Club, Mutare Southern Rocks Masvingo Sports Club , Masvingo
Former first-class national teams
The following countries have each played first-class cricket as an international team in certain circumstances. Since the suspension of the international first-class competition the ICC Intercontinental Cup, in which many of these countries competed between 2004 and 2017, they have played little or no first-class cricket.
Bermuda Canada Cayman Islands Hong Kong Kenya Malaysia Namibia Nepal Netherlands Papua New Guinea Scotland Uganda United Arab Emirates United States
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