Germantown Cricket Club is a private club located in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was one of the four principal cricket clubs in the city and was one of the club’s contributing members to the Philadelphian cricket team. It was founded on August 10,1854 in what is now the northwest section of the city and is the nation’s second oldest cricket club.

Haverford College has been a hub for cricket longer than anywhere else in the United States, and perhaps even in all of North America. The first cricket club made up entirely of American-born players was founded here in 1834, just a year after the college itself opened. The game was introduced to Haverford by William Carvill, an English gardener hired to landscape the new campus on the Main Line, just outside Philadelphia. Thirty years later, in 1864, Haverford played in the first intercollegiate cricket match against the University of Pennsylvania.

Merion Cricket Club is a private club which is located in Haverford, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1865. The current clubhouse is its sixth, the last four having been designed by Philadelphia architect Frank Furness and his partner, Allen Evans, who was also a founder of the club.The club was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987 for its leading role in the promotion, development and continued support of cricket, golf, squash, and tennis in the United States.

Philadelphia Cricket Club was founded on February 10, 1854, the Philadelphia Cricket Club is the oldest country club in the United States. As the name indicates, the club was formed by a group of young men of English ancestry who had played the game of cricket as students at the University of Pennsylvania. With the wish to continue to play together after their graduation, they formed the club under the leadership of William Rotch Wister.