The Incogniti cricket club was founded in 1861, claims to be the third oldest "wandering" cricket club – a nomadic cricket club without its own home ground – after I Zingari

I Zingari

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 and Free Foresters (founded in 1845 and 1856 respectively).

The club was founded after a match at Lord's on 25 May 1861, when a scratch team

Scratch team

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 captained by Charles Julius Brune defeated the XYZ Club. It was originally intended that the club would be based at Tufnell Park

Tufnell Park

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, but this plan was abandoned and it became a wandering club.

The club's colours are purple, black and gold, and its club motto

Motto

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 Incogniti Incognitis (Latin

Latin

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: "unknown only to the unknown") appears on the club's roll of honour

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 on the first landing of the staircase in the pavilion at Lord's.

Members have included Bernard Bosanquet

Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer)

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, Reggie Schwarz

Reggie Schwarz

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, Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

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, Douglas Jardine

Douglas Jardine

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, and Oliver Battock, and more recently David Acfield

David Acfield

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 and Simon Hinks

Simon Hinks

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The club made tours to North America in 1913, 1920 and 1922, and to the Netherlands in 1922.