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MCC v Northern | Match Report

MCC v Northern | Match Report

MCC fell to a nine-run defeat to Northern in the third match of the tour of Pakistan. Despite Ravi Bopara's three wickets, a score of 64 by Ali Imran and two wickets each for Munir Riaz and Mubasir Khan proved to be vital in securing victory for the hosts in the T20 contest ...

Tickets for 2023 Lord's matches on sale now

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...

World Cup Finals Part 1: The Prudential Cup Era

World Cup Finals Part 1: The Prudential Cup Era

With the 2019 Cricket World Cup final at Lord's fast approaching, MCC Archivist Rob Curphey looks back at previous World Cups finals. The first World Cup final was held at Lord’s on 21 June 1975, the climax of a tournament which took place in England over two weeks in June 1...

1878: The Australians bowl out MCC twice in one day

1878: The Australians bowl out MCC twice in one day

Ten years after the Aboriginal tour of 1868, a full representative side at last set out from Australia to tour Britain. The Aboriginals had been viewed as a curiosity, their appearances entertainments rather than serious sporting contests. Few expected the 1878 side to be mu...

1963: Colin Cowdrey bats with a broken arm for England against West Indies

1963: Colin Cowdrey bats with a broken arm for England against West Indies

1963 was an exciting year for cricket. The Gillette Cup brought new vitality to the county game and the West Indies were on tour, led for the first time in England by a black captain - Frank Worrell. Worrell’s first tour in the job, to Australia in 1960-61, had produced cric...

1987: Gordon Greenidge's century for MCC earns him a place on the home honours board

1987: Gordon Greenidge's century for MCC earns him a place on the home honours board

In almost a century and a half of Test cricket at Lord’s, only one man has scored a hundred for both home and away teams and had their name inscribed in the Honours Boards in both dressing rooms. That the man is Gordon Greenidge should perhaps be no great surprise. While Gre...

1928: The Ashes Urn is presented to MCC

1928: The Ashes Urn is presented to MCC

The Ashes Urn is 10.5 centimetres tall and weighs 124.8 grams. Nobody can be sure where it originally came from, or what is really inside it. But we can be certain what it represents. The idea of the Ashes originated with England’s first defeat by Australia on English soil,...

1982: Pakistan beat England to claim their first Lord's Test victory

1982: Pakistan beat England to claim their first Lord's Test victory

Most new Test playing nations have to wait some time before they can claim a win away from home against more experienced opposition. This wasn’t true of Pakistan. On their very first tour of England in 1954 they forced a dramatic win in a low-scoring match at the Oval to dra...

1984: Gordon Greenidge scores 214* to help West Indies beat England

1984: Gordon Greenidge scores 214* to help West Indies beat England

West Indies fans termed it the 'blackwash' summer. The year that Clive Lloyd’s West Indies confirmed their status as one of the greatest teams ever to have played the game.. Looking back, it seems hard to credit that England ever thought they might have a chance. True, they ...

1953: Trevor Bailey and Willie Watson salvage a draw for England against Australia

1953: Trevor Bailey and Willie Watson salvage a draw for England against Australia

Before Mike Atherton’s 10 hour and 43-minute vigil at Johannesburg, or Jack Leach’s valiant 1 not out at Headingley, the epitome of dogged, backs-to-the-wall English resistance was Trevor Bailey and Willie Watson at Lord’s in 1953. It was 20 years since England had won an As...