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1987: Gordon Greenidge's century for MCC earns him a place on the home honours board

1987: Gordon Greenidge's century for MCC earns him a place on the home honours board

In almost a century and a half of Test cricket at Lord’s, only one man has scored a hundred for both home and away teams and had their name inscribed in the Honours Boards in both dressing rooms. That the man is Gordon Greenidge should perhaps be no great surprise. While Gre...

1997: Glenn McGrath takes 8-38 for Australia against England

1997: Glenn McGrath takes 8-38 for Australia against England

When Glenn McGrath arrived for his first tour of England in 1997, he had already established himself as a leading new-ball bowler thanks to a string of impressive performances over the previous two years. But he had no experience of English conditions and England’s batsmen h...

1993: The first of Andrew Festing's Conversation Piece paintings is unveiled

1993: The first of Andrew Festing's Conversation Piece paintings is unveiled

In 1991, MCC’s Curator of Collections Stephen Green presented a paper to the Club’s Arts & Library sub-committee outlining the growth of MCC’s collection of cricket portraits since 1890. The results, he said, had been piecemeal and a number of significant cricketers from rec...

1975: West Indies beat Australia to win the first Men's World Cup

1975: West Indies beat Australia to win the first Men's World Cup

From the first One-Day International to the first men’s Cricket World Cup was but a short step. Domestic limited overs cricket had begun with the Gillette Cup in England in 1963, but the first ODI took place eight years later in Melbourne; a last-minute replacement for a was...

1952: Vinoo Mankad scores 184 and takes 5-196 for India against England

1952: Vinoo Mankad scores 184 and takes 5-196 for India against England

India arrived at Lord’s for the second Test of their 1952 series in something approaching a state of shock. England had inflicted a crushing defeat on them at Headingley, reducing them to 0 for 4 at the start of their second innings, but at Lord’s India were boosted by the r...

1827: The first Oxford v Cambridge match takes place at Lord's

1827: The first Oxford v Cambridge match takes place at Lord's

The BBC comedy Blackadder Goes Forth famously referred to the three great English universities: Oxford, Cambridge and Hull. Two of those notable seats of learning compete in one of the oldest regular fixtures at Lord’s. The history of cricket in Cambridge and Oxford dates ...

1963: Colin Cowdrey bats with a broken arm for England against West Indies

1963: Colin Cowdrey bats with a broken arm for England against West Indies

1963 was an exciting year for cricket. The Gillette Cup brought new vitality to the county game and the West Indies were on tour, led for the first time in England by a black captain - Frank Worrell. Worrell’s first tour in the job, to Australia in 1960-61, had produced cric...

1926: The Father Time weathervane is gifted to MCC

1926: The Father Time weathervane is gifted to MCC

Even among MCC’s most senior Members, few can claim to have seen more than 100 Test Matches at Lord’s. But one familiar face on the Ground has done just that. He first watched England beat West Indies by an innings and 58 runs in June 1928. He was at Lord’s for Don Bradman’s...

2006: Claire Taylor scores 156 not out for England against India

2006: Claire Taylor scores 156 not out for England against India

Claire Taylor’s first One-Day International appearance at Lord’s in 2001 saw her top score with 50 not out against Australia. The 156 not out she made against India in her next innings at the Ground remains the highest ODI score ever made at the Home of Cricket by a batsman ...

1878: The Australians bowl out MCC twice in one day

1878: The Australians bowl out MCC twice in one day

Ten years after the Aboriginal tour of 1868, a full representative side at last set out from Australia to tour Britain. The Aboriginals had been viewed as a curiosity, their appearances entertainments rather than serious sporting contests. Few expected the 1878 side to be mu...