MCC Foundation welcomes the return of recreational cricket

A Celebration of Cricket for All at Arundel The MCC Foundation celebrated the return of recreational cricket last week, hosting a triangular tournament between their Brighton, Eastbourne, and Waverley Cricket Hubs. The competition was held at the beautiful Arundel Castle Cr...

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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 ...

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England's Black Cricketers | A photographic exhibition by Tom Shaw

England’s Black Cricketers exhibition is currently on display at the MCC Museum at Lord’s Cricket Ground. It contains portraits of each black cricketer to have played for England including Mark Alleyne, Jofra Archer, Joey Benjamin, Mark Butcher, Roland Butcher, Norman Cowa...

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Shortlist announced for The Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award 2019

The 2019 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award shortlist Has been announced today.  Contrasting forms of biography feature strongly with books about Moeen Ali, iconic commentators John Arlott and Jim Swanton, and English cricket itself included. Completing the list...

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The Big Give

Please help us to build a brighter future for young people this Christmas!   Donations are  OPEN  for this year's  Big Give Christmas Challenge . Online donations made to MCC Foundation between now and midday on Tuesday 10 December will be * DOUBLED!   Watch Cri...

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1928: Learie Constantine scores 103 and takes 7-57 for West Indies against Middlesex

Cricket has boasted few more remarkable life stories than that of Learie Constantine. Born into a cricketing family in Trinidad, he quickly made a name on the island as a genuinely fast bowler, hard-hitting batsman and outstanding cover fielder. After two successful tours of...

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Portrait unveiling at Lord’s celebrates life and work of Guy Bailey

A portrait painted by artist Helen Wilson Roe of Dr Guy Bailey OBE, the civil rights activist, was unveiled in the MCC Museum at Lord’s this week, to coincide with Black History Month. The ceremony was attended by Bailey himself and former England bowler Devon Malcolm, as we...

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G. Boycott - G. Boycott 106 v West Indies

Geoff Boycott’s 18-year Test career provided as many talking points as successes. In 1967 he was dropped for batting too slowly after making 246* against India at Headingley, in a match England won by 6 wickets. Ten years later he returned to the England side after a three-y...

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Heyhoe Flint Gate officially unveiled at Lord's

MCC officially unveiled the Heyhoe Flint Gate at Lord’s Cricket Ground today on the first morning of the England v South Africa Men’s Test Match to honour the life of Baroness Rachael Heyhoe Flint and her contribution to cricket. The East Gate was replaced and renamed the He...

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