MCC Foundation launches emergency appeal in response to Covid-19

The MCC Foundation has launched an emergency appeal in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to fund meals for the most vulnerable in Westminster. The MCC Foundation , the charitable arm of Marylebone Cricket Club, is raising funds for a vital project delivered by Unity Works ...

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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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Royal Mail to celebrate England Cricket’s historic World Cup win

Royal Mail will celebrate the England Cricket team’s historic victory through special stamps and white and gold postboxes. Representing both England and Wales, this is the first time that the England Men’s and Women’s teams have held both the ICC Cricket World Cup winners’ t...

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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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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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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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A.A.P. Atkinson - A.A.P. Atkinson 12-106 v West Indies

Gus Atkinson burst onto the scene at Lord’s by taking 12 for 106 in the rothesay test match between england and west indies. The Test was notable for being the final match in the international career of James Anderson, England’s leading wicket-taker, but it was Atkinson who ...

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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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