Cricket is one of the most popular sports in Bangalore. A significant number of national cricketers have come from Bangalore, including former Indian cricket team captain Rahul Dravid and the current Test captain Anil Kumble. Other cricketing greats from Bangalore are Gundappa Vishwanath, E.A.S. Prasanna, Venkatesh Prasad, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Syed Kirmani,Sadanand Vishwanath and Roger Binny. Many children play gully cricket on the roads and in the city’s many public fields. Bangalore’s main international cricket stadium is the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, which hosted its first match in 1974.

Bangalore has a number of elite clubs, like the Bangalore Golf Club, the Bowring Institute and the exclusive Bangalore Club, which counts among its previous members Winston Churchill and the Maharaja of Mysore. From 2006, Bangalore hosts a Tier-II tournament, named Bangalore Open, of WTA tour.