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First-class cricket in England dates back to 1772 when the Hambledon Club organised matches between Hampshire and England, with the first of the matches at Broadhalfpenny Down on 24 and 25 June numbered "first-class no. 1" by ESPNcricinfo and "f1" by CricketArchive. Soon after other inter-county matches were played, centred around the South East counties of Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex, and Surrey. By the 1780s the organisation of English cricket had moved to metropolitan London, where prominent gentlemen's clubs took over the governance of the sport. The White Conduit Club briefly succeeded the Hambledon Club, but was in turn succeeded by the Marylebone Cricket Club, which remains the world's oldest continuous first-class cricket club, having played first-class matches since 1789.

Key

 * M – Number of matches played
 * W – Number of matches won
 * L – Number of matches lost
 * D – Number of matches drawn
 * T – Number of matches tied
 * A – Number of matches abandoned
 * Win% – Percentage of matches won
 * First – Year of first first-class match
 * Last – Year of last first-class match
 * – Current first-class county
 * – Other current teams with first-class status
 * – Current representative national teams with first-class status
 * – County teams with first-class status prior to the formation of a county cricket club
 * – Former university teams with first-class status
 * - Former "town club" with first-class status
 * - Armed services team formerly with first-class status
 * - Other teams which formerly held first-class status