Heidelberg Cricket Club Incorporated (HCC) was established on 1st January 1857, with it’s first recorded game was played against Collingwood.

That's right - 1857.

At that time, the club was known as the Yarra Yarra Cricket Club and played in a small hollow below the Old England Hotel. Heidelberg triumphed in that game by 116 runs, only to be beaten in the return bout 1 year later at the MCG.

In season 2024/25, Heidelberg Cricket Club will enter it’s 168th year of Cricket competition.