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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 ...

R. Illingworth 6-29 v India

R. Illingworth - R. Illingworth 6-29 v India

Ray Illingworth’s best bowling performance in any innings of a Test match came against India at Lord’s in 1967. In India’s second innings, he came on with the tourists having made 18, and except for changing ends bowled until the match was completed. Illingworth took five f...

1994: South Africa beat England in their first Lord's Test for 29 years

1994: South Africa beat England in their first Lord's Test for 29 years

When South Africa toured England in 1965 there were already signs of their impending expulsion from international sporting competition. The broadcaster John Arlott, a passionate opponent of South Africa’s apartheid laws, refused to commentate on their games, while protesters...

2003: Graeme Smith scores 259 for South Africa against England

2003: Graeme Smith scores 259 for South Africa against England

South Africa’s Graeme Smith arrived for his first Test at Lord’s having been recently appointed Test captain at the age of 22. He could not have got off to a better start at the Home of Cricket, his innings of 259 surpassing Don Bradman’s record score by a visiting Test bats...

L.S. Pascoe 5-59 v England

L.S. Pascoe - L.S. Pascoe 5-59 v England

Len Pascoe made the Lord’s Honours Boards when he took five wickets for 59 runs during Australia’s drawn Test with England in 1980. The bowler, who only played 14 Tests for his country, ripped through England’s middle and lower order, getting the dismissals of Mike Gatting, ...

V.T. Trumper 135* v England

V.T. Trumper - V.T. Trumper 135* v England

The second Test of the five-match series in 1899 between England and Australia was the only one to yield a result, with Victor Trumper’s unbeaten 135 contributing to a crushing victory by ten wickets, achieved on the third afternoon at the Home of Cricket. England made 206 a...

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...

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...

Mitchell Johnson elected as MCC Honorary Life Member

Mitchell Johnson elected as MCC Honorary Life Member

MCC has today announced that Mitchell Johnson has been elected as an Honorary Life Member of the Club. The left-arm seamer, who lies fifth on Australia’s list of all-time Test wicket-takers, accepted his Honorary Life Membership on day five of England’s Specsavers Test Mat...

MCC World Cricket committee statements

MCC World Cricket committee statements

The MCC World Cricket committee (WCC) met recently via Conference Call. It was the first meeting of 2021, following the postponement of the physical meetings which were planned for 2020. The key discussion points of the meeting were as follows: Short-pitched bowling The ...