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1886: The Parsees are the first team from India to play at Lord's

1886: The Parsees are the first team from India to play at Lord's

The ground breaking tour by the Parsees was the first by any Indian side to play in England. The team was drawn from the highest echelons of Indian society and its players were considered ‘gentlemen’ according to the social division of English cricket at the time. While the ...

2013: MCC is unveils its Royal Charter

2013: MCC is unveils its Royal Charter

What exactly is MCC? It is a cricket club, a private members’ club; a Private Club with a Public Function as has sometimes been said. But defining the Club in legal terms has often been a tricky issue. Most frequently it has been described as an “unincorporated association”,...

1922: Memorial Gates erected in memory of W.G. Grace

1922: Memorial Gates erected in memory of W.G. Grace

When the great cricketer WG Grace died in 1915 it was inevitable that MCC would wish to commemorate his remarkable life and long association with the Club. Grace’s rise to prominence fifty years earlier had ushered in cricket’s golden age and helped to cement Lord’s position...

1814: MCC beat Hertfordshire in the first match at this ground

1814: MCC beat Hertfordshire in the first match at this ground

The Marylebone Cricket Club was founded in 1787 by a group of gentlemen seeking a more peaceful and secluded area for their cricket. Thomas Lord’s new Ground at Dorset Fields was popular and successful, but the peace and seclusion didn’t last long. At turn of the 19 th cent...

1787: Thomas Lord founds a cricket ground at Dorset Fields

1787: Thomas Lord founds a cricket ground at Dorset Fields

By 1787 the gentlemen of the White Conduit Club were in search of a new home. The club had been a social and sporting success, but their cricket ground, White Conduit Fields in Islington, was near one of the busy turnpikes leading north out of London - easy to get to but a l...

1979: Viv Richards is named Man of the Match in the men's World Cup Final

1979: Viv Richards is named Man of the Match in the men's World Cup Final

Having won the inaugural men’s World Cup tournament in 1975, West Indies went into the second tournament as strong favourites. In the past four years they had established themselves conclusively as the world’s pre-eminent cricket team. Before the days of one-day specialists,...

2004: Rachael Heyhoe Flint becomes the first woman to serve on MCC Committee

2004: Rachael Heyhoe Flint becomes the first woman to serve on MCC Committee

Cricket, in its long history, has seen many pioneers, but few as determined or as successful as Rachael Heyhoe Flint. As a player, her international career was longer than most, lasting from 1960 to 1982. She captained England for 10 years without losing a single Test Match....

1986: Richard Hadlee takes a third five-wicket haul in consecutive Lord's Tests

1986: Richard Hadlee takes a third five-wicket haul in consecutive Lord's Tests

Perhaps New Zealand’s greatest ever cricketer, Sir Richard Hadlee was one of the great all-rounders in an age of great all-rounders and arguably the greatest bowler among them, renowned for nagging accuracy on the off stump at a sometimes genuinely fast pace. No one who saw ...

1990: Graham Gooch 333 - first Test triple-century at Lord's

1990: Graham Gooch 333 - first Test triple-century at Lord's

Graham Gooch turned 37 in the summer of 1990, but the year proved to be something of a rebirth for him as an international batsman. The year before, he had endured a torrid summer at the hands of Allan Border’s Australians, averaging just 20, but his appointment as captain f...

2019: England's Ben Stokes is Man of the Match in the Men's World Cup Final

2019: England's Ben Stokes is Man of the Match in the Men's World Cup Final

Being editor of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack is surely one of the most challenging jobs in cricket. But in one respect preparations for the 2020 edition were probably easier than most. Looking back over the previous twelve months in cricket, the answer to most questions see...