Afghan Women's Team to become first recipients of support from new Global Refugee Cricket Fund

Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the MCC Foundation are proud to announce the establishment of the Global Refugee Cricket Fund, an ambitious initiative to expand the work being undertaken by the Foundation to support refugees worldwide. Building on the Foundation’s long-s...

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Lord’s names Freemans Event Partners as Food & Beverage partner

Freemans Event Partners has agreed a long-term partnership with MCC to deliver a range of event solutions at Lord’s. The new multi-year agreement follows a successful trial period in 2021 and will see Freemans Event Partners managing a major part of the public catering offer...

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Trevor Bayliss joins London Spirit as Interim Men’s Head Coach for The Hundred

Ahead of today’s Hundred Men’s Draft, London Spirit have announced the appointment of Trevor Bayliss as Interim Men’s Head Coach following the tragic passing of Shane Warne. Further planned tributes to Shane will be announced shortly as the game looks at ways to remember ...

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World Cricket Connects to return to Lord’s in 2025 following formation of the World Cricket Connects Advisory Board (Connects Board) The forum, which proved hugely popular in bringing together influential people from across all aspects of cricket in its inaugural year in 202...

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Winners announced for Bowlers’ Headgear Competition

The England and Wales Cricket Board and MCC have today announced the winners of the Design Competition for Bowlers’ Headgear, and the creation of a working group from the leading three contestants to produce a bespoke design. The focus of such a design is aimed at advancing ...

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1983: India win the men's World Cup

If ever there was a match that changed cricket, it took place at Lord’s on 25 June 1983. The third men’s World Cup Final was expected to be a walkover. Holders West Indies were the undisputed masters of World Cricket and had never lost a single World Cup match before the tou...

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1965: Geoffrey Boycott's 146 helps Yorkshire win the Gillette Cup

Geoff Boycott began the 1965 Gillette Cup Final batting carefully on a tricky pitch with an outfield slowed up by heavy overnight rain. It was slow going, and Boycott was not in the best of form. After two strong seasons and a brilliant first overseas tour with England the p...

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Global Refugee Cricket Fund

  - Marylebone Cricket Club and MCC Foundation launch Global Refugee Cricket Fund in support of displaced persons - ECB donation of £100,000 to help immediately kickstart projects that use cricket to transform lives of refugees facing hardship and exclusion - Pitch ...

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MCC complete historic return to Pakistan

MCC’s overseas tours are always designed to ensure that the development of cricket is paramount in the country that the Club are visiting, but the recent visit to Pakistan could potentially deliver an immeasurable benefit to a region that has been bereft of international cric...

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