Enid Bakewell to ring five-minute bell at Lord's

Enid Bakewell will ring the bell to signal five minutes before the start of play on the opening day of the England v India LV= Insurance Test Match at Lord’s. Regarded as one of England’s great cricketers, and one of the most recognisable names in the women’s game, Bakewell ...

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Cricket Unites Behind Charity Auction

Together through this Test MCC has joined the 18 first-class counties, ECB and PCA in donating a lot in a co-ordinated online charity cricket auction as part of ECB’s Together Through This Test campaign, which launched this week.  All donors have nominated a charitable ca...

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Vitality Blast Fixtures at Lord’s in 2025 announced

Following the announcement today from the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the schedule of matches for the Vitality Blast at Lord’s in 2025 has been confirmed. Middlesex’s men will play four Vitality Blast matches at Lord’s next summer, with the opening match against...

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1998: Sachin Tendulkar scores 125 in W.G. Grace 150th Anniversary match

One of the greatest anomalies about the Lord’s Honours Boards is the absence from them of one of cricket’s greatest ever batsmen. In five Test appearances at Lord’s, Sachin Tendulkar never got past 37 and his average of 21.66 does scant justice to his huge talent and vast re...

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MCC v Champion Club

MCC take on Bath Cricket Club, this year’s Club Champions at Lord’s on Tuesday 21 September. Bath overcame Sandiacre Town CC in the final of the ECB National Championship earlier this month, winning by 81 runs at Sir Paul Getty’s Ground, Wormsley. Sam Young top scored with ...

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2024

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1936: A ball strikes a sparrow which is later stuffed and displayed in the MCC Museum

On 3 July 1936, Indian fast bowler Jahangir Khan was playing for Cambridge against MCC at Lord's. He was bowling to Tom Pearce, who had just played a defensive push when it was noticed that the bails had been dislodged. It was then that a dead sparrow was found beside the st...

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Father Time

The Father Time weather-vane, which has become such a well-known Lord’s symbol, was a gift to MCC from Sir Herbert Baker, the architect of the second Grand Stand, which was completed in 1926. It was a complete surprise to the MCC Committee , no member of whom had any prior ...

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MCC BEGINS 2024 OVERSEAS TOURING PROGRAMME WITH MEN’S TOUR OF RWANDA

MCC embarked on its first overseas tour of 2024 today, as a men’s squad departed for Rwanda. A 13-man squad left Lord’s on Tuesday morning to travel to Kigali, the capital of the country, where all of the Club’s matches will take place on the tour. The trip has been organis...

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