MCC and The Cricketer Cricket Community Champion Award 2021

MCC are teaming up with The Cricketer Magazine again to reward one dedicated cricket club volunteer with the honour of ringing the bell at Lord’s, ahead of the Royal London One-Day International between England and Pakistan in July. The Cricket Community Champion Award is no...

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Shakib Al Hasan steps down from MCC World Cricket Committee

In line with the International Cricket Council (ICC) decision to ban Shakib Al Hasan from all cricket for two years, with one year of that suspended MCC can today confirm that Al Hasan has stepped down from his involvement with the MCC World Cricket committee.  Al Hasan has ...

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CRICKET SOCIETY & MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024

The Tour , written by Simon Wilde, has won the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award 2024. Simon’s thematic history of England’s cricket tours since 1877 triumphed at the annual awards ceremony in the Long Room at Lord’s. Books about Bazball and England’s white ba...

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Spirit of Cricket

The Cowdrey Lecture MCC’s Spirit of Cricket Day is an annual event which sees around 600 schoolchildren experience what it is like to star at the Home of Cricket.  The event is run in collaboration with Chance to Shine, the national cricketing charity which aims to spread th...

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L. Tuckett - L. Tuckett 5-115 v England

Lindsay Tuckett earned a place on the Lord’s Honours Boards when he took a five-wicket haul during South Africa’s defeat to England in the summer of 1947. England had put themselves into bat after the toss and were 96-2 with Denis Compton and Bill Edrich at the crease. The ...

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Historic occasion at Lord’s as Disability Matches hosted for the first time

Lord’s played host to two very special matches this week, with a celebration of Disability Cricket at the Ground. In conjunction with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), there was a range of players on show from various England international teams to showcase the firs...

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Appendices

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MCC to use the term “batters” throughout the Laws of Cricket

MCC has today announced amendments to the Laws of Cricket to use the gender-neutral terms “batter” and “batters”, rather than “batsman” or “batsmen”. These changes have been approved by the MCC Committee , following initial discussion by the Club’s specialist Laws sub-commi...

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Appendices

Appendix D - Law 8 (The Wickets) Definitions and explanations of words or phrases not defined in the text of the Laws of Cricket.   A.1 The match A.1.1 The game is used in these Laws as a general term meaning the Game of Cricket. A.1.2 A match is a single encounte...

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Smith and May elected as Honorary Life Members

It has been announced today that Graeme Smith and Tim May are the latest former international players to be awarded Honorary Life Membership of MCC. The Club has bestowed this honour in recognition of their outstanding achievements in cricket. Graeme Smith Smith became Sou...

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