H.M. Amla - H.M. Amla 121 v England

Hashim Amla secured his second spot on the Honours Boards when he hit 121 versus England at the Home of Cricket during the summer of 2012. South Africa, electing to bat first, managed 309 all out in their first innings total with Amla hitting three fours before being bowled ...

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D.P. Conway - D.P. Conway 200 v England

A Test Match bow at Lord’s is a fine achievement, but New Zealand’s Devon Conway secured the ultimate debut scoring a double-hundred, and making the seventh highest score in history in a player’s first Test. He also became only the sixth player to score a century on their Te...

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C.S. Dempster - C.S. Dempster 120 v England

Charles Stewart Dempster, better known as Stewie, became the first New Zealand to claim a place on the Honours Boards by scoring a century in New Zealand’s first ever away test match. Winning the toss and electing to bat, Dempster top scored with 53 as New Zealand reached 22...

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Q&A with Jeff Cards

We recently chatted with MCC's Ground Superintendent Jeff Cards about his career at the Club, and his new role as COVID-19 Officer, As the Ground Superintendent at Lord’s, describe a typical day at work for MCC? One of the great things about this job is the variety in your ...

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T.W. Graveney - T.W. Graveney 153 v Pakistan

The apparently effortless style of Tom Graveney’s batting enchanted a generation of cricket watchers. Alan Ross described him as ‘a player of yacht-like character, beautiful in calm seas’. So complete was his range of strokeplay that Neville Cardus wrote that if the whole ar...

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T.W. Graveney - T.W. Graveney 141 v India

The apparently effortless style of Tom Graveney’s batting enchanted a generation of cricket watchers. Alan Ross described him as ‘a player of yacht-like character, beautiful in calm seas’. So complete was his range of strokeplay that Neville Cardus wrote that if the whole ar...

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K.F. Barrington - K.F. Barrington 148 v Pakistan

Although rarely mentioned these days among the ranks of England’s all-time great batsmen, Ken Barrington boasts a Test batting average second only to Herbert Sutcliffe among Englishmen. A naturally gifted strokeplayer during his early years at Surrey, being dropped by Englan...

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Historic first Women's Test match in 2026 at Lord's

MCC is delighted to announce that Lord's will host its first ever women's Test match in 2026, exactly 50 years since Rachael Heyhoe Flint first led out an England Women's team at the Ground. Today's news came as part of the announcement of a packed men's and women's season a...

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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...

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