Our History

The Colours of MCC A distinguished club of almost 100 years standing I Zingari was the first and grandest of the wandering clubs to be founded in 1845. Of course many members of I Zingari would also have been members of MCC but it is doubtful if MCC - a distinguished club of...

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Cricket Society & MCC Book of the Year Award 2023

An Island’s Eleven, the Story of Sri Lankan Cricket by Nicholas Brookes has won the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award for 2023. Books by former and current cricketers Wasim Akram, Moeen Ali and Geoffrey Boycott were among those shortlisted, with all six book...

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Lord's 2021 County Championship Fixtures Announced

Fixtures for the opening stage of the 2021 County Championship have been announced with four Middlesex home matches set for Lord’s. In a change to previous County Championships, the 2021 competition will see the 18 first-class counties split into three groups, with Middlesex...

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1963: Colin Cowdrey bats with a broken arm for England against West Indies

1963 was an exciting year for cricket. The Gillette Cup brought new vitality to the county game and the West Indies were on tour, led for the first time in England by a black captain - Frank Worrell. Worrell’s first tour in the job, to Australia in 1960-61, had produced cric...

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Premium Seating

HOSPITALITY BY LORD'S A new cricket season brings new hospitality experiences for 2023, discover it all at the Home of Cricket. Time spent at Lord’s is extra special and we have a variety of options to enjoy a day at the cricket in absolute luxury. Our range of hospitality ...

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The bat

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I.R. Bell - I.R. Bell 100* v Pakistan

After Alastair Cook & Paul Collingwood had both scored their first-ever hundreds at Lord’s, Ian Bell also joined in on adding his name to the Lord’s history books with an unbeaten century against pakistan. In a knock that would eventually become England’s 100 th at Lord’s i...

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Q&A with Jeff Cards

We recently chatted with MCC's Ground Superintendent Jeff Cards about his career at the Club, and his new role as COVID-19 Officer, As the Ground Superintendent at Lord’s, describe a typical day at work for MCC? One of the great things about this job is the variety in your ...

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Oxford v Cambridge

The University Match was first played at Lord’s back in 1827, two years before the famous Boat Race. This fixture will consist of a men’s and a women’s match, both 20 overs per side with coloured kit and a pink ball. Match Details Match 1 Oxford Women v Cambridge Women...

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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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