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T.W. Graveney 141 v India

T.W. Graveney - T.W. Graveney 141 v India

The apparently effortless style of Tom Graveney’s batting enchanted a generation of cricket watchers. Alan Ross described him as ‘a player of yacht-like character, beautiful in calm seas’. So complete was his range of strokeplay that Neville Cardus wrote that if the whole ar...

C. Washbrook 114 v West Indies

C. Washbrook - C. Washbrook 114 v West Indies

Although firmly established as a Lancashire regular by the mid-1930s and an England debutant in 1937, Cyril Washbrook had to wait until after the Second World War before holding down a regular place in the England batting order. A solid opening bat, Washbrook formed a formid...

1928: Learie Constantine scores 103 and takes 7-57 for West Indies against Middlesex

1928: Learie Constantine scores 103 and takes 7-57 for West Indies against Middlesex

Cricket has boasted few more remarkable life stories than that of Learie Constantine. Born into a cricketing family in Trinidad, he quickly made a name on the island as a genuinely fast bowler, hard-hitting batsman and outstanding cover fielder. After two successful tours of...

Culture Secretary visits vaccination centre at Lord's Cricket Ground

Culture Secretary visits vaccination centre at Lord's Cricket Ground

MCC welcomed Oliver Dowden to Lord’s to tour the vaccination centre at the Home of Cricket as part of his thanks to the wider culture, media and sports sectors for their help in the vaccine roll-out to date.  The minister met MCC Chief Executive & Secretary Guy Lavender for ...

Lord's Legends XI

Lord's Legends XI

The greatest players on the Biggest stage Since hosting its first international match in 1884, Lord’s has seen cricket’s greatest players make the famous walk through the Long Room out to the middle. From epic Ashes encounters to high pressure World Cup drama, the legends of...

G.A. Gooch 117 v Rest of the World XI

G.A. Gooch - G.A. Gooch 117 v Rest of the World XI

In 1987, twenty-two of the world’s greatest players were summoned to Lord’s to play a showpiece one-off Test match to mark MCC’s bicentenary, and Graham Gooch, playing for MCC against a Rest of the World XI, marked the occasion with a century. He put on 75 for the second wic...

A.M.E. Roberts 10-123 v England

A.M.E. Roberts - A.M.E. Roberts 10-123 v England

SIR Andy Roberts made the iconic Lord's Honours Boards when he took match figures of 10-123 for West Indies in 1976. With England batting first in the Test, Roberts was given the responsibility with the ball in his hands and duly ripped into the hosts' batting line-up. He t...

G. Boycott 106 v West Indies

G. Boycott - G. Boycott 106 v West Indies

Geoff Boycott’s 18-year Test career provided as many talking points as successes. In 1967 he was dropped for batting too slowly after making 246* against India at Headingley, in a match England won by 6 wickets. Ten years later he returned to the England side after a three-y...

Q&A with Fraser Stewart

Q&A with Fraser Stewart

We recently chatted with Lord's Indoor Cricket Centre Manager (and MCC Laws Manager) Fraser Stewart on the impact the Coronavirus pandemic may have on the game, and how the Lord's will adapt to the “new normal”. Your job title is Lord’s Indoor Cricket Centre Manager, though ...

Looking Back: Cricket at Christmas

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...