Navigation
Accessibility Buy tickets Search
Buy tickets

Search results

All sites MCC Lord's
Relevance Posted (newest) Posted (oldest)

1097 Results for campo de criquet

1999: The first women are awarded Honorary Life Membership of MCC

1999: The first women are awarded Honorary Life Membership of MCC

The change of MCC’s rules to permit women to apply for Membership offered two clear routes for female applicants - either to play a number of qualifying matches for the Club over a two-year period, or to endure approximately 20 years on the waiting list. But there were a num...

1953: HRH The Duke of Edinburgh opens the Imperial Memorial Gallery now known as the MCC Museum

1953: HRH The Duke of Edinburgh opens the Imperial Memorial Gallery now known as the MCC Museum

The MCC collections are the oldest sporting collection in the world, but for almost a century after their inception, few people beyond the Club’s membership were able to see them. From their beginning in 1864, the Club’s collections were only displayed in the Pavilion at Lor...

2012: Lord's hosts the Olympic Archery tournament

2012: Lord's hosts the Olympic Archery tournament

Cricket has only featured once in the Olympics - at Paris in 1900 when the amateur team Dorset Wanderers defeated a Parisian XI in a one-off match. But cricket grounds themselves do have a closer involvement with Olympic history. Most notably, the Melbourne Cricket Ground se...

1998: The Women's Ashes are created in a ceremony in the Harris Garden

1998: The Women's Ashes are created in a ceremony in the Harris Garden

The women’s Ashes, created in 1998, is a hollow wooden ball, containing the ashes of a miniature bat signed by both the Australian and England teams and those of a copy of the Women's Cricket Association rules and constitution, burnt in a ceremony at Lord's. The ceremony was...

1914: Lord's is used by the War Office for the accommodation of troops

1914: Lord's is used by the War Office for the accommodation of troops

The outbreak of the Great War in 1914 brought to an end cricket’s ‘golden age’, a period lasting a quarter of a century during which the game established itself beyond question as England’s pre-eminent sport. The spread of county cricket had made the game truly national, and...

Ajmal Shahzad appointed MCC Head Coach

Ajmal Shahzad appointed MCC Head Coach

MCC has today announced that Ajmal Shahzad has been appointed to the position of Head Coach at the Club. Shahzad, who played for England in all formats of the game as well as representing five different first-class counties, replaces Steve Kirby in the role, who left Lord’s ...

New MCC Committee elected with more women now included

New MCC Committee elected with more women now included

It was announced today that Vicky Griffiths, Chinmay Gupte, Nick Gandon and Will House have been elected to serve on the MCC Committee from 1st October 2019. The result follows the successful introduction of online voting, with 2,355 of the 6,314 Full and Senior Members who ...

Lord's 2020 Fixtures Announced

Lord's 2020 Fixtures Announced

The Lord’s fixtures for 2020, released today, set out the full list of games for next year’s exciting summer of action. These dates follow the earlier announcement of England’s matches at the Home of Cricket: Test Matches against West Indies and Pakistan, respectively, a...

MCC complete overseas tour in Sierra Leone

MCC complete overseas tour in Sierra Leone

MCC completed their final overseas tour of 2019 this week, as a thirteen-man squad returned to the UK having played eight matches in Sierra Leone. It was the first time that MCC had toured Sierra Leone since 2003 and the tour was an extremely challenging one for the Club’s s...

Lord's Full Fixture list confirmed

Lord's Full Fixture list confirmed

MCC is thrilled to confirm several additions to the fixture list for Lord’s for the upcoming 2021 season. There are a variety of regular fixtures confirmed for the summer, as well as some matches that will be played at the Home of Cricket for the very first time, both formin...