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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MCC statement on Mankad incident in IPL match

MCC statement on the ‘Mankad’ incident in the IPL match between Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals, in which R Ashwin ran out Jos Buttler. In relation to the incident, the wording of the Law needs to be examined to understand it further. This Law is essential. Without it, ...

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Mahdi Choudhury appointed Assistant Secretary (Membership)

Marylebone Cricket Club is delighted to announce the appointment of Mahdi Choudhury as Assistant Secretary (Membership). Choudhury will join the senior management team at Lord’s, led by Chief Executive & Secretary Guy Lavender, and will take up his new post in July. He w...

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BBC’s Test Match Special stars to host 2025 MCC Cowdrey Lecture

Test Match Special presenters are delighted to be hosting the 2025 MCC Cowdrey Lecture with Michael Vaughan and Jonathan Agnew opening the show. They’ll be joined by fellow commentators Ebony Rainford-Brent and Phil Tufnell for an evening of light-hearted cricket discussion ...

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The fielder

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1979: Viv Richards is named Man of the Match in the men's World Cup Final

Having won the inaugural men’s World Cup tournament in 1975, West Indies went into the second tournament as strong favourites. In the past four years they had established themselves conclusively as the world’s pre-eminent cricket team. Before the days of one-day specialists,...

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2009: England win their first Lord's Test against Australia in 75 years

England’s 2005 Ashes triumph had given English cricket a long-awaited boost, but a 5-0 reverse down under in 2006-07 demonstrated that Australia remained powerful opponents. When Ricky Ponting’s men arrived in England again in 2009 they had every hope of relegating 2005 to d...

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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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1993: England beat New Zealand in the Women's World Cup Final

The fifth Women’s World Cup was the second to be held in England. It very nearly didn’t happen at all. Had it not been for a last minute grant of £90,000 from the Foundation for Sport and the Arts, the tournament would probably have been cancelled. With women’s cricket still...

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MCC Foundation announces Stephen Fry as Patron

The MCC Foundation is delighted to announce on World Mental Health Day the appointment of Stephen Fry as a Patron. Fry joins an illustrious line up of cricketing greats who already support the foundation, including Claire Taylor, Mike Brearley, Mike Atherton and Mike Gatting...

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