Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Awards 2020 and 2021

Duncan Hamilton and Christopher Sandford are the joint winners of the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year 2020. The competition, run by the Cricket Society since 1970 and in partnership with MCC since 2009, is for books nominated by MCC and Cricket Society Members, and ...

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CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025

Worrell, written by Simon Lister, has won the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award for 2025. The biography of West Indian Sir Frank Worrell triumphed at the annual awards ceremony in the Long Room at Lord’s. Lister spoke about his fears that Worrell's legacy - ens...

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MCC launch 2024 Community Cricket Heroes campaign

MCC has today launched its Community Cricket Heroes campaign for 2024 to find 11 unsung cricketing heroes from across the country. The campaign, which is now in its second year and run in partnership with The Cricketer magazine, saw 11 heroes of grassroots cricket welcomed...

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Tickets for 2023 Lord's matches on sale now

Tickets are now available to purchase for matches in 2023 at Lord's. The international season starts at Lord’s on Thursday 1 June when England’s men play Ireland in a LV= Insurance Test match, 4 years after they first played in this format at Lord’s. England’s women wi...

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Chief Executive Statement

An update from MCC Thank you for visiting our website. I hope you and your family are safe and well at this very difficult time. Lord’s has been closed now for a number of weeks and with April normally heralding the start of the season, I am writing to provide an update fro...

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The wicket-keeper

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1909: The Imperial Cricket Conference, now known as the International Cricket Council, is founded at

ICC, the governing body in world cricket is today the International Cricket Council and has its headquarters in Dubai. But its origins lay in a very different world at the height of the British Empire. It was at the end of South Africa’s first Test tour of England in 1907 th...

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MCC looks back on 16 years of University Cricket

With the recent announcement regarding the cancellation of all professional cricket up until at least 1 July 2020, this also means that there will be no University cricket before MCC officially hands over the running and control of the Universities programme, to the England...

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Declaration and forfeiture

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