Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award 2020

The 2020 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award shortlist is announced today. Contrasting forms of biography feature strongly with books about recent England captain Sir Alastair Cook, former Award Chairman Vic Marks, and the legendary writer Neville Cardus. Complet...

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Mustafizur Rahman - Mustafizur Rahman 5-75 v Pakistan

Mustafizur Rahman became the first Bangladesh player to make the Lord’s Limited-Overs Honours Boards, when he took 5-75 during the ICC Cricket World Cup match versus Pakistan. With Pakistan 246/2, Rahman was influential in getting his country back into the game with the cruc...

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W. Watson - W. Watson 109 v Australia

An obdurate and versatile left-handed batsman and superb fielder, Willie Watson is best remembered  for the almost six-hour stand with Trevor Bailey at Lord’s in 1953 which saved the match for England and enabled them to seal a long-awaited Ashes victory with a single win at ...

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Final overseas tour of 2022 as MCC Women head to Nepal

MCC embarked on its final overseas tour of the year today as a squad of women’s players departed London for Nepal. It has been a busy year for the MCC Overseas Touring programme, with men’s squads heading to Serbia, Romania, Italy and Uganda. The fifth and final tour of 202...

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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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MCC on Tour in Greece

A squad of MCC men’s players toured Greece last month, in another of the Club’s successful overseas tours that have taken place in 2023. It was the first time the Club had toured Greece since 2011 and a squad of 13 players, plus a Tour Manager and Umpire, travelled to Corfu ...

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E. Peate - E. Peate 6-85 v Australia

Ted Peate became the first cricketer to make the Honours Boards when his figures of 6-85 in the first innings helped England to win the first ever Test match against Australia at Lord’s in July 1884. His victims included the Australian captain Billy Murdoch, whom he got out ...

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MCC looks back on 16 years of University Cricket

With the recent announcement regarding the cancellation of all professional cricket up until at least 1 July 2020, this also means that there will be no University cricket before MCC officially hands over the running and control of the Universities programme, to the England...

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S.K. Warne (1969 - 2022)

MCC is deeply saddened and shocked to hear of the passing of Shane Warne. Warne was an Honorary Life Member of MCC, a member of the Club’s World Cricket committee, and Head Coach of London Spirit Men, the Lord’s-based team in The Hundred. The former Australian leg-spinner w...

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