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MCC World Cricket Committee Statements

MCC World Cricket Committee Statements

The MCC World Cricket committee met at Lord’s on Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th August. ICC Chief Executive David Richardson, ICC General Manager – Strategic Communications Claire Furlong, ICC Head of Global Development William Glenwright, FICA Chief Operating Officer Tom Moffat...

2004: Surrey beat Middlesex in the first T20 match at Lord's

2004: Surrey beat Middlesex in the first T20 match at Lord's

By the turn of the millennium there was a growing feeling that county cricket was stagnating. The existing one-day competitions no longer seemed to possess the sense of occasion they once had, and a new kind of sports audience was thought to be developing, one accustomed to ...

England v Ireland | Day 2

England v Ireland | Day 2

It was Ireland’s day once again at Lord’s despite a resolute effort from England nightwatchman Jack Leach on the second day of the one-off Specsavers Test Match. Leach fell agonisingly short of a place on the Home of Cricket's famous  Honours Board , but his battling 92 help...

D.C.S. Compton 116 v New Zealand

D.C.S. Compton - D.C.S. Compton 116 v New Zealand

Denis Compton will always be remembered for the golden summer of 1947, when he plundered 3,816 first-class runs (including 753 in five Tests against South Africa) alongside the similarly prolific Bill Edrich and helped dispel the lasting gloom of Britain’s war years. Few cri...

MCC clarifies boundary catch incident in Vitality Blast Final

MCC clarifies boundary catch incident in Vitality Blast Final

MCC wishes to clarify the Law relating to catches near the boundary, following an incident in the Vitality Blast Final.  Somerset’s Will Smeed hit the ball towards the square leg boundary, where two Kent fielders converged, both trying to take the catch.  Jordan Cox held ont...

M.W. Gatting 179 v Rest of the World

M.W. Gatting - M.W. Gatting 179 v Rest of the World

Mike Gatting’s fine 179 was one of the star turns of the one-off Test match between MCC and a Rest of the World XI in 1987, played to commemorate the MCC’s bicentenary. After MCC won the toss and chose to bat first, Graham Gooch struck an excellent century before Gatting rea...

MCC v Surrey: Day Two Report

MCC v Surrey: Day Two Report

Surrey took control on Day Two of the Champion County fixture at the ICC Academy in Dubai, after an unbeaten stand of 245 between Ollie Pope and Jamie Smith. On the opening day MCC had posted 265 all out, before Surrey reached 20 without loss at stumps. The first session of...

MCC Overseas Tours to Italy and Uganda review

MCC Overseas Tours to Italy and Uganda review

Following men’s tours of Serbia and Romania during the English summer, the MCC Overseas Touring Programme continued recently as the Club embarked on trips to both Italy and Uganda. Overseas tours are a crucial part of the Club’s commitment to the global game and after the co...

Shane Warne Joins MCC World Cricket Committee

Shane Warne Joins MCC World Cricket Committee

MCC has announced that Shane Warne has been appointed to its World Cricket committee.  Former Australia leg-spinner Warne, regarded as one of the greatest bowlers of all time, accepted the invitation to join the committee, which meets twice a year to discuss the most importa...

1986: Richard Hadlee takes a third five-wicket haul in consecutive Lord's Tests

1986: Richard Hadlee takes a third five-wicket haul in consecutive Lord's Tests

Perhaps New Zealand’s greatest ever cricketer, Sir Richard Hadlee was one of the great all-rounders in an age of great all-rounders and arguably the greatest bowler among them, renowned for nagging accuracy on the off stump at a sometimes genuinely fast pace. No one who saw ...