Formed in 1949, Farnham NALGO Cricket Club was a team primarily consisting of members of the National Association of Local Government Officers. However, by 1951 only a handful of the club's players were still drawn from members of the Farnham NALGO. It was agreed at a meeting of the players that the club should be renamed and on 19 April 1951 The Surrey & Hants News reported that the chosen name was "The Waverley Cricket Club", named after the players' preferred watering hole in Farnham and according to the news article "the name of the club suggests where [the players] are more likely to be found if the weather is unkind."

The first club officers were N Wooderson (club secretary), T R Harrington (club captain) and E J Tilson (vice-captain).

The rest, as they say, is history.

As was typical of the period, much of Waverley’s cricket in the 1950s and 1960s was played on difficult wickets. Often, these were little more than ploughed fields and it was not unheard of for each side to bat twice. It is therefore unsurprising that bowlers tended to dominate. In the first years of the club’s existence, Waverley bowlers regularly took 100 or more wickets in a season with E Hammond being the first to achieve this feat in 1955 (taking 111 wickets). From the beginning of the 1955 season to the end of the 1970 season (a 16 year period), a Waverley bowler took 100 wickets in a single season on 16 occasions. By far the most prolific bowler of this era was Gerry Kirkpatrick, who took 100 wickets nine times and remains to this day Waverley’s leading wicket-taker, with 2,125 wickets (including 146 “five-fers”) taken between 1958 and 1984. Meanwhile, Alan Webb became the first Waverley bowler to take all ten wickets in an innings when he returned figures of 10/25 vs Ash in 1961. The only other bowler to achieve this was Kirkpatrick, with 10/23 vs Milford in 1975.

However, pitches started to improve to produce a much more even contest between bat and ball. In 1967, Tony Day became the first Waverley batsman to score a century with 102 vs Key Cross and the first Waverley player to score over 1,000 runs in a season (1,197). He also took 121 wickets in that same season, making him the only Waverley player to “do the double” of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in the same season. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, heroics with the bat became much more commonplace – Andy Dexter, Neil Carmichael and Tim Smith each scored 1,000 runs in a season on three occasions during this period. Further, an increasing number of batsmen were reaching three figures for the club. For instance, Andy Dexter and Johnny Harland both scored four centuries during the 80s and 90s (including 152 for Dexter vs Fairlands in 1993, the first time a Waverley batsman had gone passed 150 runs), Tim Smith notched seven centuries during the 1990s and Neil Carmichael amassed nine centuries. With the ball, Dave Powell, Herbie Scarth and Peter Brewer were prominent amongst the wickets.

No history of Waverley Cricket Club would be complete without mention of Tony “The Guv’nor” Harland. He played for the club from its inception in 1951 and fulfilled various non-playing roles as well, such as Club Secretary, Fixture Secretary and Treasurer (often at the same time). His Waverley career spanned 56 years, over 13,000 runs and 990 wickets. In 2006, he batted in his 1500th innings for the club vs Oakley. His sad passing in 2008, aged 76, was keenly felt by all involved with the club and in some ways marked the end of an era.

By the early 2000s, the rise of village league cricket had led to both positives and negatives for Waverley. More teams were electing to play league fixtures on Saturday afternoons, impacting not only the number of fixtures available to Waverley, but also the number of players able to play two fixtures every weekend. This resulted in Waverley becoming essentially a Sunday side from 2009 onwards. However, from a positive perspective the pitches Waverley were playing on were now the best they had ever been. Since 2003, James Wright (21) and Simon Brewer (16) have scored 37 centuries between them. In 2010 Brewer’s 157* vs Abinger Hammer became the highest individual score by a Waverley player, before eventually being bettered by Wright in 2017 (158 v Crown Taverners) and again in 2024 (164 vs Medstead). Twelve other Waverley batsmen have hit one or more centuries during that same period.

Waverley bowlers Dave Powell and Herbie Scarth hung up their boots between 2010 and 2015, Powell bowing out with 1,308 wickets to leave him second on the list of the club’s all-time leading wicket takers, with Herbie Scarth finishing with 945 wickets in his distinguished Waverley career. The evergreen Peter Brewer retired from regular cricket in 2022, having become only the fourth Waverley player to take 1,000 wickets for the club (behind Kirkpatrick, Powell and Tony Day).

As of 2024, the club continues its proud tradition of playing friendly, sociable cricket – playing to win, but playing for fun and always happy to welcome new players to the Waverley family.