MCC Champion County match to be held in Sri Lanka in 2020

Marylebone Cricket Club has today announced that next season’s Champion County match against Essex will be held in Sri Lanka. The traditional curtain-raiser to the new English domestic season, which dates back to 1970 in its current guise, will be played at the Galle Interna...

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Obstructing the field

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D.P.M.D. Jayawardene - D.P.M.D. Jayawardene 107 v England

One of Sri Lanka’s great batsmen, Mahela Jayawardene appears twice on the famous Honours Boards at Lord’s and the first instance came in 2002, when he made 107 against England. Jayawardene’s partnership with Atapattu was the driving force behind Sri Lanka’s big first innings...

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Women and Girls

Opening the pathway in both professional and grassroots women’s cricket has been an important target area for MCC. The Club believes that combining an increase in the amount of women’s cricket played at Lord’s with efforts to increase girls participation in youth cricket sho...

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1987: Four players make centuries in MCC's bicentenary Test

When the teams were announced for MCC’s Bicentenary match in August 1987, it was clear that this was a game the top names in cricket wanted to play in. Almost all the greats were present and a capacity crowd there to see it, with the newly-opened Mound Stand resplendent in t...

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World Cricket Connects to take place at Lord’s in July 2024

World Cricket Connects is a new invitation event for the most prominent thinkers, voices and influencers in the game. It will take place at Lord’s on Friday 5 July 2024.   This is a forum designed for the leading voices in the game to discuss the health of cricket, and consi...

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Batter's innings; Runners

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Power Play: The future of women’s cricket

MCC WOMEN’S CRICKET day 2021 marked a memorable occasion, with mcc PLAYERS being the first to play 100-ball match on the main ground, concluding with a panel discussion on the women’s game. On Thursday 29 April, MCC players enjoyed their return to the Home of Cricket for ...

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Hassan Ali - Hassan Ali 5-51 v England

Hassan Ali wrote himself onto the Limited-overs Honours Board at Lord’s with a five-wicket haul against England, in the second One-Day International of the 2021 white-ball series.  In a match which Pakistan won the toss and elected to bowl, Ali took full advantage of the sea...

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MCC Cowdrey Lecture 2021: Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry, a lifelong cricket supporter and MCC Foundation Patron, spoke at the twentieth edition of the MCC Cowdrey Lecture at Lord’s on Tuesday 16 November 2021.  MCC Members and special guests were among the audience for the evening, while 8,500 viewers tuned into the l...

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