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1814: MCC beat Hertfordshire in the first match at this ground

1814: MCC beat Hertfordshire in the first match at this ground

The Marylebone Cricket Club was founded in 1787 by a group of gentlemen seeking a more peaceful and secluded area for their cricket. Thomas Lord’s new Ground at Dorset Fields was popular and successful, but the peace and seclusion didn’t last long. At turn of the 19 th cent...

1922: Memorial Gates erected in memory of W.G. Grace

1922: Memorial Gates erected in memory of W.G. Grace

When the great cricketer WG Grace died in 1915 it was inevitable that MCC would wish to commemorate his remarkable life and long association with the Club. Grace’s rise to prominence fifty years earlier had ushered in cricket’s golden age and helped to cement Lord’s position...

2013: MCC is unveils its Royal Charter

2013: MCC is unveils its Royal Charter

What exactly is MCC? It is a cricket club, a private members’ club; a Private Club with a Public Function as has sometimes been said. But defining the Club in legal terms has often been a tricky issue. Most frequently it has been described as an “unincorporated association”,...

1886: The Parsees are the first team from India to play at Lord's

1886: The Parsees are the first team from India to play at Lord's

The ground breaking tour by the Parsees was the first by any Indian side to play in England. The team was drawn from the highest echelons of Indian society and its players were considered ‘gentlemen’ according to the social division of English cricket at the time. While the ...

2003: Graeme Smith scores 259 for South Africa against England

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...

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...

1970: Garry Sobers scores 183 and takes 6-21 for Rest of the World XI

1970: Garry Sobers scores 183 and takes 6-21 for Rest of the World XI

Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, the young Barbadian who broke Len Hutton’s Test record by scoring 365 not out against Pakistan in 1957-58, was not just a batsman. He was an all-rounder who could bowl left-arm fast-medium, orthodox slow left-arm or left-arm unorthodox as the situa...

2017: England beat India to win the Women's World Cup

2017: England beat India to win the Women's World Cup

The 2017 ICC Women’s World Cup was the eleventh time a women’s championship had been held, but the 2017 tournament was a very different affair from the earliest ones. At the time of the first tournament, in 1973, women’s cricket had been entirely amateur, with most of the pl...

1980: Middlesex win the County Championship and Gillette Cup double

1980: Middlesex win the County Championship and Gillette Cup double

Under Mike Brearley’s captaincy, Middlesex became the dominant force in county cricket in both long and short formats, winning the County Championship outright in 1976 and 1980, and sharing the title in 1977. They also won the Gillette Cup in both 1977 and 1980. The team’s s...

2009: England win their first Lord's Test against Australia in 75 years

2009: England win their first Lord's Test against Australia in 75 years

England’s 2005 Ashes triumph had given English cricket a long-awaited boost, but a 5-0 reverse down under in 2006-07 demonstrated that Australia remained powerful opponents. When Ricky Ponting’s men arrived in England again in 2009 they had every hope of relegating 2005 to d...