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1978: Ian Botham scores 108 and takes 8-34 for England against Pakistan

1978: Ian Botham scores 108 and takes 8-34 for England against Pakistan

Most cricketers would consider it a great achievement to earn their name on the Lord’s Honours Boards but few have managed it on their first appearance. To do so twice on your first appearance at Lord’s, for both batting and bowling, seems like showing off, but much of Ian...

2019: Tim Murtagh takes 5-13 for Ireland against England

2019: Tim Murtagh takes 5-13 for Ireland against England

When Ireland arrived at Lord’s for their first ever Test match at the Home of Cricket, they couldn’t have had a better man to lead their bowling attack than Tim Murtagh. In a 19-year county career for Surrey and Middlesex, Murtagh had taken 291 first-class wickets on the Gro...

1998: The new Grand Stand is completed

1998: The new Grand Stand is completed

Like the Pavilion, the current Grand Stand at Lord’s is the third to stand on the site. The first was opened in 1867, its construction funded by a private syndicate of MCC Members from whom the Club bought the stand two years later. The stand was 175ft long by 30ft high, con...

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...

1788: MCC issues a Code of Laws for Cricket

1788: MCC issues a Code of Laws for Cricket

The first generally accepted code of Laws for cricket was issued in 1744. Prior to that, rules were generally agreed by the participants in advance of a given match, such as those agreed by the Duke of Richmond and Mr Brodrick in 1727. Neither these, nor the later Laws, offe...

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...

1864: W.G. Grace plays at Lord's for the first time

1864: W.G. Grace plays at Lord's for the first time

It would be easy to see the year 1864 as the starting point for modern cricket. MCC legalised over-arm bowling, the first edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack appeared and a young William Gilbert Grace, just three days beyond his 16 th birthday, made his first appearanc...