TheCombined Services cricket team playedfirst-class cricket between 1920 and 1964, featuring in 63 fixtures.[1] The team was made up of cricketers who were serving in the three branches of theBritish Armed Forces: theBritish Army,Royal Navy, andRoyal Air Force. Throughout the cricket season, the Combined Services regularly played againstcounty opposition and touring sides.[1] In the side's 63 first-class fixtures, 226 different cricketers appeared for the Combined Services. During the period ofNational Service, the Combined Services were often able to field a strong side of young players who were already associated with a first-class county.[2] Following the formal end of National Service in the United Kingdom in 1960, the Combined Services invariably fielded weaker sides, 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 sides, and his name as it would appear on a modern match scorecard.