Clydesdale Cricket Club also fielded a football team, Clydesdale which came second to Queens Park in the first Scottish Cup final in 1874, after many associated with the club had been instrumental in the foundation of the Scottish Football Association. In the modern era, Clydesdale Cricket Club continues to be a major force in the amateur sporting worlds of cricket and both men's and women's hockey under the name of Clydesdale Western Hockey Club and has its own international-standard water-based synthetic-surfaced hockey pitch upgraded in 2011. Members and former members of the club were selected to play for Scotland in the 1999 and
Sawbridgeworth Cricket Club to the north of the town. The earliest recorded cricket match by a Sawbridgeworth side was two games against Saffron Walden in 1823, the Sawbridgeworth home game being played at Pishiobury Park. Other known early games were against Bishop's Stortford in 1836 and Hatfield Broad Oak in 1843. 'The Sawbridgeworth and High Wych Cricket Club' was formed by the Sawbridgeworth Vicar, Reverend A. D. Wilkins in 1862. The pitch in those far off days was granted by Mr Edwin Hurst on a 'field well situated between the Parish and the District'. Rules were drawn up by a committee of Clergymen