1998: MCC votes to admit women as Members

For the first 211 years of its existence, MCC operated as a male only Club. The idea of admitting women as Members was discussed by the Committee in 1967, but it would be another three decades before sufficient support among existing Members could be generated. The catalyst ...

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2018: Alastair Cook plays his 26th Lord's Test

Sir Alastair Cook’s 26 Test Matches at Lord’s are a record at the Home of Cricket and the second highest total for a player’s appearances on a single ground in all Test cricket. Only Mahela Jayawardene’s 27 outings at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground in Colombo, Sri Lanka ra...

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 ...

R.C. Russell - R.C. Russell 124 v India

Jack Russell was often best remembered for his outstanding wicketkeeping, but one of his two Test centuries came in the second Test Match against India at Lord’s in 1996, a match that was eventually drawn. Russell had fell only six runs short of earning a place on the covete...

G.A. Gooch - G.A. Gooch 117 v Rest of the World XI

In 1987, twenty-two of the world’s greatest players were summoned to Lord’s to play a showpiece one-off Test match to mark MCC’s bicentenary, and Graham Gooch, playing for MCC against a Rest of the World XI, marked the occasion with a century. He put on 75 for the second wic...

M.P. Vaughan - M.P. Vaughan 100 v India

Michael Vaughan became part of a select group of England batsmen to have their name appear on the Honours Board twice in the same summer, as hit 100 against India in the first Test Match of the series at Lord’s in 2002. Vaughan had scored 115 against Sri Lanka two months ear...

M.A. Butcher - M.A. Butcher 137 v Zimbabwe

The record books might have recorded a comfortable victory over Zimbabwe in this first Test Match of the 2003 summer, but Mark Butcher’s century was built on a doggedness that helped England through a challenging opening day at Lord’s. After losing the toss and being asked t...

M.P. Vaughan - M.P. Vaughan 115 v Sri Lanka

Michael Vaughan appears six times on the Honours Boards but he first entered Lord’s folklore in 2002, hitting 115 against Sri Lanka. It was only the second of what became a total of eighteen Test centuries, his first ton coming a year previous against Pakistan at Old Traffor...

C.M. Old - C.M. Old 5-21 v India

Christopher Old secured his second appearance on the Honours Boards with an incisive eight over spell against India in 1974, taking 5-21 to bowl India out for 42 and win the match. After India had claimed a historic first test series win in England on their previous visit in...