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Captain Tom 100 challenge launched at Lord's

Captain Tom 100 challenge launched at Lord's

Members of Captain Sir Tom’s family were at Lord’s today to mark the start of the Captain Tom 100 Challenge – a weekend of fundraising in honour of the former second world war veteran who famously raised £38.9million for the NHS at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic.  The...

Final overseas tour of 2022 as MCC Women head to Nepal

Final overseas tour of 2022 as MCC Women head to Nepal

MCC embarked on its final overseas tour of the year today as a squad of women’s players departed London for Nepal. It has been a busy year for the MCC Overseas Touring programme, with men’s squads heading to Serbia, Romania, Italy and Uganda. The fifth and final tour of 202...

MCC Community Cricket Heroes 2024 winners announced

MCC Community Cricket Heroes 2024 winners announced

Following a month-long nationwide campaign to find the unsung heroes of the grassroots game, 11 new MCC Community Cricket Heroes have today been announced.  The campaign, run in conjunction with The Cricketer magazine, aims to celebrate the grassroots game and the thousand...

2012: Lord's hosts the Olympic Archery tournament

2012: Lord's hosts the Olympic Archery tournament

Cricket has only featured once in the Olympics - at Paris in 1900 when the amateur team Dorset Wanderers defeated a Parisian XI in a one-off match. But cricket grounds themselves do have a closer involvement with Olympic history. Most notably, the Melbourne Cricket Ground se...

1974: England beat India by the largest margin in a Lord's Test

1974: England beat India by the largest margin in a Lord's Test

India arrived in England for their 1974 tour as a team that was coming of age in international cricket. The ebullient captaincy of ‘Tiger’ Pataudi in the late 1960s together with the emergence of their four-pronged spin attack made them formidable opponents on home soil. Und...

Cricket returns to Lord's

Cricket returns to Lord's

Cricket returns to Lord's Following the announcement from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) this morning, MCC is thrilled to be welcoming cricket to Lord’s this summer, initially with the Vitality Blast tournament before hosting the final of the Bob Willis Trophy. T...

MCC launch Made in Oldstead premium picnics for Lord's

MCC launch Made in Oldstead premium picnics for Lord's

MCC has expanded its existing partnership with Michelin-starred chef Tommy Banks with a premium picnic offering for match days at Lord’s Cricket Ground provided by Made In Oldstead, Banks’ award-winning food box business, providing unique fine-dining experiences wherever you ...

1972: Australia beat England in the first Men's ODI held at Lord's

1972: Australia beat England in the first Men's ODI held at Lord's

The first ever One-Day International took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1971, a last-minute replacement for a washed out Ashes Test. It would be more than 18 months before any further ODI cricket took place, but this time the matches were part of the official sche...

1998: MCC votes to admit women as Members

1998: MCC votes to admit women as Members

For the first 211 years of its existence, MCC operated as a male only Club. The idea of admitting women as Members was discussed by the Committee in 1967, but it would be another three decades before sufficient support among existing Members could be generated. The catalyst ...

MCC Foundation Host National Hub Competition Finals at Lord’s

MCC Foundation Host National Hub Competition Finals at Lord’s

Marylebone Cricket Club Foundation (MCCF) hosted the boys’ and girls’ finals of its annual National Hub Competition at Lord’s Cricket Ground on Saturday 30 July. The event marked the conclusion of a 20-week long competition that has seen boys and girls aged 15 and under from...