The Army and Navy cricket team was a

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team formed from the combination of the

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and the

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, with its players being selected from either of these branches of the British Armed Forces. The team first appeared in a first-class match in 1910 against a combined

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at the Officers Club Services Ground, Aldershot. The team played two further first-class matches, in 1911 in a repeat of the 1910 fixture, though this time played at the United Services Recreation Ground, Portsmouth, and following World War I against the Demobilised Officers at Lord's. The team won its first two fixtures and drew its third.

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*{{cite book , publisher= ACS , title=A guide to first-class cricket matches played in the British Isles , year=1982, edition=second

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