Lord's Dining Club

Next Chefs Gallery Ollie Dabbous, Co-founder and Executive Chef of Hide hosts the fourth and final event for 2020 on Wednesday 25 November. Chef Patron Dabbous opened Hide in 2018 to great critical acclaim and was awarded a Michelin star within just six months. This followed...

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Shaheen Afridi - Shaheen Afridi 6-35 v Bangladesh

Shaheen Afridi became the youngest cricketer to take an ODI five-wicket haul at Lord’s when he took 6-35 during Pakistan’s victory over Bangladesh in the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup. In what was a break-through tournament for the 19-year-old, the fast bowler showed his potent...

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Cricket West Indies win Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Award

MCC, in conjunction with the BBC, is delighted to announce that Cricket West Indies has been awarded the 2020 Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Award. Cricket West Indies were selected for their courage in sending both their Men’s and Women’s teams to tour England...

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Mustafizur Rahman - Mustafizur Rahman 5-75 v Pakistan

Mustafizur Rahman became the first Bangladesh player to make the Lord’s Limited-Overs Honours Boards, when he took 5-75 during the ICC Cricket World Cup match versus Pakistan. With Pakistan 246/2, Rahman was influential in getting his country back into the game with the cruc...

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Stephen Fry to deliver the 2021 MCC Cowdrey Lecture

Stephen Fry, a lifelong cricket supporter and MCC Foundation Patron, will deliver the 2021 MCC Cowdrey Lecture at Lord’s Cricket Ground on Tuesday 16 November 2021. The prestigious Lecture, which embodies the Spirit of Cricket, will return after a hiatus in 2020 due to the C...

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Bruce Carnegie-Brown and Clare Connor take office at MCC as Chairman and President respectively

Bruce Carnegie-Brown has today taken office as the new Club Chairman of MCC following his approval by Members at the 2021 Annual General Meeting in May this year. He will be the sixth MCC Chairman. Carnegie-Brown, who is currently Chairman of Lloyd’s of London and Vice Chair...

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1979: Viv Richards is named Man of the Match in the men's World Cup Final

Having won the inaugural men’s World Cup tournament in 1975, West Indies went into the second tournament as strong favourites. In the past four years they had established themselves conclusively as the world’s pre-eminent cricket team. Before the days of one-day specialists,...

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Looking Back: Cricket at Christmas

As Christmas is just around the corner MCC Archivist Rob Curphey looks back at some interesting cricketing Christmas connections. Cricket at Christmas England did win a Test match once on Christmas Day, in 1972 against India, where on the fifth day of the match in Delhi, ca...

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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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