Everyday heroes to ring the five-minute bell as MCC honour outstanding contributions

MCC is proud to announce that during the first LV= Insurance Test Match between E ngland and New Zealand at Lord’s this week, it will be showing its appreciation of key workers and volunteers by asking them to ring the five-minute bell to signify the imminent start of play. ...

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D.P. Conway - D.P. Conway 200 v England

A Test Match bow at Lord’s is a fine achievement, but New Zealand’s Devon Conway secured the ultimate debut scoring a double-hundred, and making the seventh highest score in history in a player’s first Test. He also became only the sixth player to score a century on their Te...

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MCC and The Cricketer Cricket Community Champion Award 2021

MCC are teaming up with The Cricketer Magazine again to reward one dedicated cricket club volunteer with the honour of ringing the bell at Lord’s, ahead of the Royal London One-Day International between England and Pakistan in July. The Cricket Community Champion Award is no...

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T.G. Southee - T.G. Southee 6-43 v England

Tim Southee sealed his second spot on the Lord’s Honours Boards with a five-wicket haul against England on the fourth day of the 2021 Test between the hosts and New Zealand. Southee, who took ten wickets in the 2013 Test between the sides at Lord’s, claimed England debutant ...

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R.J. Burns - R.J. Burns 132 v New Zealand

England’s Rory Burns made his first century at Lord’s and with it, gained a place on the Honours Boards as he made three figures in the opening Test of the 2021 international summer against New Zealand. Opening batsman Burns, who had scored two previous Test centuries – one ...

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Jax Jones to perform live at The Hundred final at Lord's

Jax Jones, the Ivor Novello, BRIT and Grammy-nominated DJ has today announced he will be performing at The Hundred Final at Lord’s in London on 21 August.   The news comes on top of the release of his brand-new track ‘Feels’, which is the official song to the new 100-ball cr...

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1939: George Headley scores a century in both innings for West Indies

There was always a strong possibility that West Indies 1939 tour of England would be disrupted. But the events most likely to cause this disruption were not the territorial ambitions of Nazi Germany but the machinations of the West Indies Cricket Board. The success of their ...

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1976: The first Women's ODI is held at Lord's

There was a time, still within living memory, when the Pavilion at Lord’s had very much the atmosphere of an exclusive gentlemen’s club. There were no women Members of MCC and on match days even female staff members were expected to avoid popular areas like the Long Room. Th...

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