Mildenhall Cricket Club was established in 1876 and plays at Wamil Way, a picturesque riverside setting with two cricket fields.
In 2016 the club's 1XI won the Two Counties Cricket Championship (Suffolk and Essex) and was promoted to the East Anglian Premier Cricket League. In 2017 the club's first team competes on Saturdays in the East Anglian Premier Cricket League and the second, third and fourth team play in the Two Counties Cricket Championship. The club also has two teams playing in the Hunts County Bats league on Sundays and a team competing in the La Hogue Fordham midweek league. The club also has a youth section with players as young as seven, and runs a thriving ladies' team.
Notable players have included England international Tymal Mills, England Lions' Tom Westley and Essex Womens' Lilly Reynolds.