this is a complete list in alphabetical order of cricketers who played first-class cricket matches for manchester cricket club. depending on the status of their opponents, the side has been retrospectively classified as a first-class team between 1844 and 1858. the details are the player's usual name followed by the years in which he was active in first-class matches as a manchester player. many players represented other teams besides manchester, including lancashire xis, and several played for lancashire county cricket club after it was formed in 1865.