The Combined Services cricket team played first-class cricket between 1920 and 1964, featuring in 63 fixtures. The team was made up of cricketers who were serving in the three branches of the British Armed Forces: the British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force. Throughout the cricket season, the Combined Services regularly played against county opposition and touring teams. In the team's 63 first-class fixtures, 226 different cricketers appeared for the Combined Services. During the period of National Service, the Combined Services were often able to field a strong team of young players who were already associated with a first-class county. Following the formal end of National Service in the United Kingdom in 1960, the Combined Services invariably fielded weaker teams, having lost access to a pool of young county cricketers.

The details are the player's usual name, the years in which he played first-class matches for one of the teams, and his name as it would appear on a modern match scorecard.

A Michael Ainsworth (1946–1948) : M. L. Y. Ainsworth David Allen (1955) : D. A. Allen Keith Andrew (1952) : K. V. Andrew Arthur Archdale (1920–1921) : A. S. Archdale William Ashmore (1948) : W. S. Ashmore Bill Atkins (1958–1959) : G. Atkins Graham Atkinson (1957–1958) : G. Atkinson

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E Richard Earnshaw (1960–1961) : R. O. Earnshaw John Edrich (1956–1957) : J. H. Edrich Bernard Elgood (1948) : B. C. Elgood Alfred Evans (1920) : A. E. Evans

F John Fawkes (1959–1960) : J. Fawkes Maurice Fenner (1949–1964) : M. D. Fenner Godfrey Firbank (1922) : G. C. Firbank Eric Fisk (1950–1951) : E. Fisk Ronnie Ford (1946–1949) : W. R. Ford William Foster (1964) : W. J. Foster Robert St Leger Fowler (1921–1924) : R. S. Fowler

G Bob Gale (1955) : R. A. Gale David Gay (1949) : D. W. M. Gay Albert Gillespie (1937) : A. S. Gillespie Stephen Goldring (1964) : S. Goldring Adrian Gore (1924–1931) : A. C. Gore David Green (1956) : D. J. Green Bill Greensmith (1949–1950) : W. T. Greensmith Lancelot Grove (1937) : L. T. Grove David Guard (1947) : D. R. Guard

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I Ray Illingworth (1952) : R. Illingworth Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie (1953) : A. C. D. Ingleby-Mackenzie

J Tom Jameson (1920–1924) : T. O. Jameson Julian Jefferson (1922) : J. A. D. Jefferson Johnnie Johnson (1947) : F. S. R. Johnson Peter Johnson (1950) : P. L. Johnson Alan Jones (1959) : A. Jones

K Don Kenyon (1946) : D. Kenyon Simon Kimmins (1950) : S. E. A. Kimmins Barry Knight (1957–1958) : B. R. Knight

L Richard Langridge (1959–1960) : R. J. Langridge Michael Laws (1946) : M. L. Laws Stan Leadbetter (1956–1957) : S. A. Leadbetter Stuart Leary (1955–1956) : S. E. Leary Tony Lewis (1958–1959) : A. R. Lewis Albert Lightfoot (1955) : A. Lightfoot Joseph Lister (1951) : J. Lister Tony Lock (1948) : G. A. R. Lock Brian Luckhurst (1960) : B. W. Luckhurst Ian Lumsden (1948–1949) : I. J. M. Lumsden

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N David Newsom (1960–1961) : D. J. Newsom

O Alan Oakman (1949) : A. S. M. Oakman Michael Osborne (1961–1962) : M. J. Osborne

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R John Rawlence (1950) : J. R. Rawlence Alan Rayment (1947) : A. W. H. Rayment Harold Rhodes (1956) : H. J. Rhodes Peter Richardson (1954–1955) : P. E. Richardson Fred Roberts (1946–1949) : J. F. Roberts William Robins (1937) : W. V. H. Robins Keith Robinson (1961) : K. Robinson Maurice Robinson (1946) : M. Robinson Brian Roe (1959–1960) : B. Roe Francis Rogers (1924) : F. G. Rogers

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T Anthony Thackara (1949–1955) : A. L. S. S. Thackara Joe Thewlis (1962) : J. Thewlis Roly Thompson (1952) : R. G. Thompson David Thorne (1964) : D. C. Thorne Edward Thornton (1922) : E. Thornton Fred Titmus (1951) : F. J. Titmus Gerry Tordoff (1953–1962) : G. G. Tordoff Fred Trueman (1953) : F. S. Trueman

U Arthur Underwood (1950–1951) : A. J. Underwood

V Geoffrey Vavasour (1947) : G. W. Vavasour John Vernon (1949–1952) : J. M. Vernon Roy Virgin (1961) : R. T. Virgin Bill Voce (1946) : W. Voce

W

Y Rex Yeatman (1946) : R. H. Yeatman

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