MCC v ECB Chair Disability XI

Lord's will be hosting two very special matches on Monday, with a celebration of Disability Cricket taking place at the Ground. In conjunction with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), there will be a range of players on show from various England international teams. T...

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K.R. Miller - K.R. Miller 10-152 v England

Keith Miller's second spot on the Lord's Honours Boards came when he finished with match figures of 10-152 during the 1956 Ashes Test versus England. During his last appearance at the Home of Cricket, Miller's first bowling spell of the match came after his Australian side h...

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1787: Thomas Lord founds a cricket ground at Dorset Fields

By 1787 the gentlemen of the White Conduit Club were in search of a new home. The club had been a social and sporting success, but their cricket ground, White Conduit Fields in Islington, was near one of the busy turnpikes leading north out of London - easy to get to but a l...

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M.P. Vaughan - M.P. Vaughan 115 v Sri Lanka

Michael Vaughan appears six times on the Honours Boards but he first entered Lord’s folklore in 2002, hitting 115 against Sri Lanka. It was only the second of what became a total of eighteen Test centuries, his first ton coming a year previous against Pakistan at Old Traffor...

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MCC women’s squad head to Germany for latest overseas tour

MCC has today continued its Overseas Touring Programme for 2023, with a women’s squad departing Lord’s for Germany. The Club has already toured both Belize and Austria this year, with men’s squads embarking on trips to both countries, and now a squad of 13 women’s players, p...

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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...

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J.E. Root - J.E. Root 115* v New Zealand

Joe Root scored his SIXTh century at Lord’s to help steer England to a brilliant five wicket victory against World Test Champions New Zealand in the opening Test Match of the 2022 international season. In a match which swung one way and then another, it was a nerveless centu...

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The Willow

Your private suite, with exceptional views of the hallowed turf, is the perfect setting to experience a day at the Home of Cricket. From world- class cuisine, to a pitch walk with a cricketing legend, your day in our hospitality will be like no other. Alongside breakfast on...

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Cricket Society & MCC Book of the Year Award 2021

Ashley Gray’s The Unforgiven, Mercenaries or Missionaries? The untold stories of the rebel West Indian cricketers who toured apartheid South Africa is the winner of the 2021 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award.  Chair of judges Robert Winder commended the book f...

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