1998: Sachin Tendulkar scores 125 in W.G. Grace 150th Anniversary match

One of the greatest anomalies about the Lord’s Honours Boards is the absence from them of one of cricket’s greatest ever batsmen. In five Test appearances at Lord’s, Sachin Tendulkar never got past 37 and his average of 21.66 does scant justice to his huge talent and vast re...

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MCC Launches New Schools’ Initiative as World Cup Trophy Visits Lord’s

MCC today launched their Westminster state secondary school league at the Home of Cricket as the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Trophy visited Lord’s Cricket Ground. To mark the occasion, MCC invited local secondary schools to Lord’s to compete in the new secondary school leagu...

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England v Australia | Day 5

A thrilling Test match ended in a draw despite England’s best efforts in the second match of the Specsavers Ashes Series at Lord’s. Ben Stokes’ scintillating century had set the hosts up for a tilt at victory and despite the concerted effort of a bowling attack that included...

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MCC Women set to tour Ireland

It has been announced today that MCC will visit Ireland for a two-match Women’s tour later this year. The two fixtures, to be played in July, are the first Women’s matches that MCC will have played in Ireland. Both matches will be against an Ireland Women’s Select XI – with ...

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1993: The first of Andrew Festing's Conversation Piece paintings is unveiled

In 1991, MCC’s Curator of Collections Stephen Green presented a paper to the Club’s Arts & Library sub-committee outlining the growth of MCC’s collection of cricket portraits since 1890. The results, he said, had been piecemeal and a number of significant cricketers from rec...

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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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2017: England beat India to win the Women's World Cup

The 2017 ICC Women’s World Cup was the eleventh time a women’s championship had been held, but the 2017 tournament was a very different affair from the earliest ones. At the time of the first tournament, in 1973, women’s cricket had been entirely amateur, with most of the pl...

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A.N. Cook - A.N. Cook 105 v West Indies

SIR Alastair Cook’s second century at the Home of Cricket came during the first Test of West Indies tour of England in summer 2007. Beginning to cement his position at the top of the order, Cook showed calmness and superb determination to add his name to the Honours Boards f...

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