MCC Foundation hosts National Hub Competition Finals at Lord's

Marylebone Cricket Club Foundation (MCCF) hosted the boys’ and girls’ finals of its annual National Hub Competition at Lord’s Cricket Ground on Saturday 29 July.  The event marked the conclusion of a 20-week long competition that has seen state-educated boys and girls aged 1...

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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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Fielders' absence; Substitutes

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MCC YC Fynn Hudson-Prentice signs three-year contract with Derbyshire

Fynn Hudson-Prentice of the MCC Young Cricketers has signed a three-year contract with Derbyshire. Hudson-Prentice, an all-rounder who bowls fast-medium, in his second year as an MCC Young Cricketer, impressed Derbyshire during a trial period with the county, whom he will jo...

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2018: Alastair Cook plays his 26th Lord's Test

Sir Alastair Cook’s 26 Test Matches at Lord’s are a record at the Home of Cricket and the second highest total for a player’s appearances on a single ground in all Test cricket. Only Mahela Jayawardene’s 27 outings at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground in Colombo, Sri Lanka ra...

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Clare Connor, Justin Langer and Graeme Smith join MCC World Cricket committee

MCC has today announced the addition of three new Members to its World Cricket committee (WCC), which will be meeting next week in Dubai for the first time this year. Clare Connor, Justin Langer, and Graeme Smith have joined the WCC, which is an independent body comprised of...

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2014: Sachin Tendulkar captains MCC to victory in the bicentenary of Lord's match

Once more, a great anniversary at Lord’s was celebrated with a festival match between MCC and Rest of the World, featuring the very best players of the current era. It was in fact the third of three special matches scheduled to celebrate two centuries of cricket at the third...

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1974: Derek Underwood takes match figures of 13-71 for England

A ‘slow’ left-arm spinner of more like medium pace, Derek Underwood’s international career lasted from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. He was the leading spin bowler in England for two decades, forming a deadly combination with wicket-keeper Alan Knott both at Test and cou...

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2003: Graeme Smith scores 259 for South Africa against England

South Africa’s Graeme Smith arrived for his first Test at Lord’s having been recently appointed Test captain at the age of 22. He could not have got off to a better start at the Home of Cricket, his innings of 259 surpassing Don Bradman’s record score by a visiting Test bats...

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1997: Glenn McGrath takes 8-38 for Australia against England

When Glenn McGrath arrived for his first tour of England in 1997, he had already established himself as a leading new-ball bowler thanks to a string of impressive performances over the previous two years. But he had no experience of English conditions and England’s batsmen h...

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