Middlesex and Sunrisers fixtures at Lord's in 2023 confirmed

Following today’s announcement by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) of the domestic fixtures for 2023, we are pleased to confirm several domestic matches on the Lord’s fixture list, in addition to the international calendar which has already been confirmed. Middlesex...

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Barclays Media Centre

Since opening in 1999, the Barclays Media Centre has become one of the most iconic and recognisable buildings within sport. Its unique design won eight architectural awards, including the RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture – when it became the first sporting building to win...

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1909: The Imperial Cricket Conference, now known as the International Cricket Council, is founded at

ICC, the governing body in world cricket is today the International Cricket Council and has its headquarters in Dubai. But its origins lay in a very different world at the height of the British Empire. It was at the end of South Africa’s first Test tour of England in 1907 th...

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C.V. Grimmett - C.V. Grimmett 6-167 v England

Clarrie Grimmett’s pinpoint leg breaks claimed six English wickets in the second innings of the 1930 Lord’s test, helping Australia to a famous win and ultimately a series victory. Batting first, K.S. Duleep’s highest test score of 173 took England to 425 all out - seemingly...

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Middlesex v Sussex Sharks: Match Report

The Vitality Blast season officially got underway at Lord’s with a historic first double-header featuring both the women’s and men’s teams from Middlesex and Sussex Sharks.   In the women’s fixture, Middlesex delivered a confident all-round performance to secure victory by ...

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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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Batter out of his/her ground

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MCC Statement

“Further to the earlier statement, MCC can confirm it has suspended three Members identified from earlier today. They will not be permitted back to Lord’s whilst the investigation takes place and were informed of this by MCC Chief Executive, Guy Lavender, this evening. “W...

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1972: Australia beat England in the first Men's ODI held at Lord's

The first ever One-Day International took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1971, a last-minute replacement for a washed out Ashes Test. It would be more than 18 months before any further ODI cricket took place, but this time the matches were part of the official sche...

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Lord's to host four London Spirit Women's matches

It has been confirmed that Lord’s will host a number of extra matches in 2021, following the ECB announcement that The Hundred Women’s competition will be played across the same eight venues that are due to host the Men’s competition. This will mean that London Spirit Women’...

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