"A to C" was in fact a Kent Eleven and it was a curiosity that they selected only players whose names began with A, B or C while their D to Z opponents, who were in fact a Hampshire team with given men, selected only players whose names did not begin A, B or C. Haygarth in S&B calls it "Hambledon Club with Lumpy versus Kent". The venue, in Surrey, was neutral. Haygarth says he saw the alphabetical title in other sources.

The two "A to K" versus "L to Z" matches in 1831 and 1833 were among the few genuine alphabetical matches. They were both played at Lord's by teams of MCC members supplemented by a few leading professionals including Jem Broadbridge, William Lillywhite, Fuller Pilch and Ned Wenman. The 1833 match was 12-a-side.

According to CricketArchive, teams called "A to M" and "N to Z" played each other five times in three seasons from 1787. The main secondary source for the five matches is Scores & Biographies which calls the two teams "Earl of Winchilsea's Side" and "Sir Horace (Horatio) Mann's Side". There is nothing in Scores and Biographies to suggest that the teams were organised alphabetically.^[6][7]

See the entries below for Earl of Winchilsea's XI and Sir Horatio Mann's XI.

This refers to two matches organised by the Duke of Dorset and the Earl of Tankerville in May 1775, the first one played at the Artillery Ground and the return at Moulsey Hurst two days later. Details of the teams are unknown and so it cannot be said which letters of the alphabet applied to each team. All that is known is that the patrons made two "Grand Alphabetical Matches".

It is believed that the Arundel club was formally constituted in 1704 but, two years earlier, an Arundel team took part in a match against a team raised by Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond. The venue for that match is unknown but Arundel's ground at Bury Hill was in use for other important matches through much of the 18th century. The Arundel club remains active at league level in Sussex.

First recorded in two matches against a combined Huntingdonshire & Northamptonshire team. The county's first patron and captain was John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford.

The earliest known written rules were the Articles of Agreement written by Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and Alan Brodrick, two of cricket's foremost patrons, applicable to the two matches in 1727 which they promoted. The results of the matches are unknown.

Richard Grenville was the county's first patron and captain for a match against Northamptonshire.