MCC Tour to Thailand

MCC COMPLETED THEIR TOURING PROGRAMME FOR 2018 DURING NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER WHEN A 13-MAN SQUAD OF PLAYING MEMBERS FROM AROUND THE UNITED KINGDOM TOURED THAILAND. The twelve-day trip was the last of four overseas tours which have taken place this year, following trips to Bra...

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Preparation and maintenance of the playing area

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K. Higgs - K. Higgs 6-91 v West Indies

Kenneth Higgs was selected for the England team to play against the formidable West Indies team captained by Garfield Sobers in 1966, and in the first innings, he achieved his best Test bowling figures, taking 6 for 91 in 33 overs. This included removing both openers Conrad ...

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1963: The first Gillette Cup Final is held at Lord's

By the start of the 1960s the post-war boom in county cricket was long over. Although the 1950s had seen an England team dominant in Test Matches, at domestic level the game was increasingly seen as stagnant, over cautious and lacking in entertainment value. The competing le...

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1937: Patsy Hendren appears in a first-class match at Lord's for the last time

One of the game’s most prolific run-scorers whose swift footwork made him particularly adept against spin, ‘Patsy’ Hendren is a true legend of Lord’s. Third on the all-time list for first-class runs worldwide and behind only Jack Hobbs in number of centuries, Hendren amassed...

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1952: Vinoo Mankad scores 184 and takes 5-196 for India against England

India arrived at Lord’s for the second Test of their 1952 series in something approaching a state of shock. England had inflicted a crushing defeat on them at Headingley, reducing them to 0 for 4 at the start of their second innings, but at Lord’s India were boosted by the r...

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1975: West Indies beat Australia to win the first Men's World Cup

From the first One-Day International to the first men’s Cricket World Cup was but a short step. Domestic limited overs cricket had begun with the Gillette Cup in England in 1963, but the first ODI took place eight years later in Melbourne; a last-minute replacement for a was...

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1997: Glenn McGrath takes 8-38 for Australia against England

When Glenn McGrath arrived for his first tour of England in 1997, he had already established himself as a leading new-ball bowler thanks to a string of impressive performances over the previous two years. But he had no experience of English conditions and England’s batsmen h...

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1998: The new Grand Stand is completed

Like the Pavilion, the current Grand Stand at Lord’s is the third to stand on the site. The first was opened in 1867, its construction funded by a private syndicate of MCC Members from whom the Club bought the stand two years later. The stand was 175ft long by 30ft high, con...

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1950: West Indies win a Lord's Test for the first time

Cricket, lovely cricket! At Lord’s where I saw it. Not many cricket matches in history have inspired music, but the 1950 Lord’s Test between England and West Indies was one of them. The famous calypso by Lord Beginner (Egbert Moore) was written in its aftermath, as jubi...

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