This category has been created to hold generic articles about the history of world cricket and to act as the gateway into the cricket history structure. All articles about specific historical topics should be categorised in an appropriate sub-category to prevent clutter at this level and to keep articles with similar subject-matters together. This is for the benefit of the readers and to aid navigation of the system.

The main sub-categories that are controlled by this category are country histories and also the histories of Test cricket and women's cricket.

For the early histories of each country, see:

• History of Australian cricket to 1876
• History of cricket in Bangladesh
• History of Canadian cricket
• History of cricket to 1725 (for early English cricket)
• History of cricket in India to 1918
• History of cricket in Kenya
• History of cricket in New Zealand to 1890
• History of cricket in Pakistan from 1947 to 1970
• History of cricket in South Africa to 1918
• History of cricket in Sri Lanka
• History of United States cricket
• History of cricket in the West Indies to 1918
• History of cricket in Zimbabwe to 1992