About MCC

MCC's famous logo Welcome to the Marylebone Cricket Club - better known, throughout the cricketing world, as MCC. Founded in 1787, MCC is the world's most famous cricket club.

Today, MCC's role remains as relevant as ever. From guarding the game's Laws to safeguarding its Spirit, and from promoting cricket to young people to looking after Lord's, MCC is committed to the good of the game.

MCC's teams play around 500 matches a year. They set off for overseas tours to destinations as diverse as Tanzania and Cyprus to help increase cricket's international appeal; and its women's side have more and more matches too.

It is always busy at the famous old ground too. Lord's hosts: npower Test matches; One Day Internationals; Middlesex's Twenty20, County Championship and Pro40 matches; as well as the showpiece finals for the Clydesdale Bank 40, Minor Counties Cup and npower Village Cup.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu delivers the 2008 Cowdrey Lecture Moreover, Lord's stages many events off the field including the annual Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture - part of the Club's worldwide campaign to ensure that a great game is always played in a truly sportsmanlike way.

Looking to the future, MCC is investing heavily in Lord's to ensure that the ground remains world-class, as well as world-famous. For example, the Club is developing three portable pitches on its Nursery Ground and has installed a video analysis suite (including 'HawkEye' technology) in its Indoor Cricket School.

Such projects follow MCC's completion, at the start of the 2005 season, of a multi-million pound project to restore its famous Pavilion (a listed building) to pristine condition.

MCC is delighted that the Pavilion will provide the backdrop to the archery event when, in 2012, London hosts the Olympic Games.