Eton v Harrow

Having played since 1805 Eton and Harrow will meet in one of the longest-running annual sporting fixtures in the world. Match Details Start time: 11.00 Format: 55 overs per side Lunch: 13.00 Tea: taken with 25 overs remaining of the second innings Team News ...

Practice on the field

Writing Room Weddings

The elegantly furnished Writing Room is a beautiful setting for a smaller ceremony and wedding breakfast for up to 60 guests. A charming and intimate space, which overlooks the vast expanse of the beautifully kept main ground at Lord’s, the Writing Room is flooded with natur...

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...

Sustainability

Reports Batting for a Better Future is MCC’s sustainability-focused campaign. It aims to promote and highlight the Club’s uniquely independent position in cricket so that we can do our part to address the challenges that climate change poses. The British Association for Sus...

Nepal’s Aasif Sheikh is the winner of the 2022 CMJ Spirit of Cricket Award

MCC is delighted to announce that Nepal’s Aasif Sheikh is the recipient of the 2022 Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Award. Wicketkeeper-batter Aasif has been recognised with this award, which the Club runs in conjunction with BBC, for his sporting conduct show...

Ground Development

The Allen and Tavern stands The Warner Stand 2021-2024 The third phase of the development will concentrate on the East Gate area of the Ground This will involve creating an East Gate Building, incorporating office space, a new Lord’s Shop, as well as hospitality and cateri...

Hendrick's Gin & MCC combine to offer game changing refreshment at Lord's

Hendrick’s Gin and MCC have today announced a new three-year partnership.  Hendrick’s, the UK’s No. 1 premium gin brand aims to refresh the traditional cricket experience at Lord’s with speciality bars and unique serves available to visitors.   Cricket fans will be able to ...

1980: Middlesex win the County Championship and Gillette Cup double

Under Mike Brearley’s captaincy, Middlesex became the dominant force in county cricket in both long and short formats, winning the County Championship outright in 1976 and 1980, and sharing the title in 1977. They also won the Gillette Cup in both 1977 and 1980. The team’s s...

1938: Wally Hammond scores 240 for England against Australia

In almost any other age, Walter Hammond would have been acknowledged as the greatest batsman of his generation. Nothing seemed more certain than that he would dominate cricket for a decade after he scored 905 Test runs at an average of 113.12 on England’s 1928-29 tour of Aus...