1963: Colin Cowdrey bats with a broken arm for England against West Indies

1963 was an exciting year for cricket. The Gillette Cup brought new vitality to the county game and the West Indies were on tour, led for the first time in England by a black captain - Frank Worrell. Worrell’s first tour in the job, to Australia in 1960-61, had produced cric...

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R.A. Smith - R.A. Smith 148* v West Indies

This was one of two occasions that Robin Smith would appear on the Lord’s Honours Board, with the second occurrence later in the same summer, however this unbeaten 148 against the West Indies in 1991, batting at number six, must go down as one of his greatest innings. After ...

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MCC v Lahore Qalandars | Match Report

MCC began their four-match tour of Pakistan with a four-wicket victory of Lahore Qalandars in a T20 encounter at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. Captained by President, Kumar Sangakkara , MCC elected to bowl first and were rewarded with a good start when Salman Butt was run-ou...

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Evolution of Women's Cricket

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Chief Executive Statement

An update from MCC Thank you for visiting our website. I hope you and your family are safe and well at this very difficult time. Lord’s has been closed now for a number of weeks and with April normally heralding the start of the season, I am writing to provide an update fro...

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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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Lord’s To Turn Red For The Ruth Strauss Foundation

On Thursday 15th August, Lord’s will be turning red for day two of the second Specsavers Ashes Test between England and Australia in aid of the Ruth Strauss Foundation. Lord’s Cricket Ground, England and Wales Cricket Board and MCC will be supporting the Ruth Strauss Found...

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ICC World Test Championship Final

.   The ICC World Test Championship Final comes to Lord’s The Home of Cricket will host the ICC World Test Championship Final with first-time finalists South Africa set to battle it out against defending champions, Australia, starting on Wednesday 11 June. Hospitalit...

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World mental health day at Lord's

Over 200 local people took part in activities ranging from walking cricket to music classes at Lord’s as The Home of Cricket opened its doors to mark World Mental Health Day on Monday 10 OCTOBER.  The event was part of a joint project led by MCC and MIND Brent, Wandsworth an...

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From the Archives: The World Cup at Lord's

As the fifth men’s World Cup is now upon us, MCC Archivist Rob Curphey looks back at previous World Cups in England, and the ten World Cup matches that were held at Lord’s. 1999 Visit the MCC Museum Visitors to the MCC Museum over the summer will be able to see a number o...

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