Stuart Broad announced as MCC Champion County Captain

MCC has today announced that England and Nottinghamshire fast bowler Stuart Broad will captain the team in the annual Champion County Match, which takes place in Dubai next month. County Champions Surrey, who won Division One of the Specsavers County Championship last summer...

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MCC statement on upcoming Champion County Match and World Cricket committee meeting in Sri Lanka

In light of the global outbreak of COVID-19 Coronavirus, MCC has taken the decision to cancel the Club’s upcoming visit to Sri Lanka later this month. The annual Champion County Match – MCC v Essex - at the Galle International Stadium was due to take place between 24 and 2...

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A.G. Steel - A.G. Steel 148 v Australia

Allan Gibson Steel became the first player to score a Test century at Lord's and consequently the first batsman on the iconic Honours Boards when he hit 148 for England versus Australia in 1884. In the first ever Test match at the Home of Cricket, it was Australia who won th...

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D.L. Amiss - D.L. Amiss 188 v India

As England piled up their highest total at Lord’s, Dennis Amiss scored 188 of their 629 runs against India in 1974 as the hosts romped to victory in this one-sided affair at the Home of Cricket. Amiss put on a mammoth 221 with John Edrich, which was the highest partnership f...

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A.J. Lamb - A.J. Lamb 139 v India

Allan Lamb’s 139 against India at Lord’s in 1990 might have been overshadowed as it occurred in the same innings as Graham Gooch’s unbeaten 333, but the batsman’s twelfth Test century was still a sight to behold at the Home of Cricket. Lamb and his captain Gooch put on 308 f...

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A.J. Strauss - A.J. Strauss 112 v New Zealand

Andrew Strauss became of the very few batsman to score a Test hundred at Lord’s on debut when he hit 112 versus New Zealand in 2004. The opener was not part of the original 13-man squad in the lead up to the match but after Michael Vaughan sustained an injury in the warm-up,...

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A.N. Cook - A.N. Cook 105 v Pakistan

England’s leading Test run scorer hit his first hundred at the Home of Cricket in the summer of 2006 versus Pakistan at Lord’s. Batting at three, the future England captain showed plenty of maturity and class while deputising in the position for the injured Michael Vaughan. ...

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J.E. Root - J.E. Root 200* v Sri Lanka

Joe Root, at 23 years and 165 days, became the youngest Englishman, since David Gower in 1979, to hit a double century, when he scored 200* vs Sri Lanka in 2014. In what was his second hundred at the Home of Cricket, Root hit his double-century off 298 balls, scoring 16 four...

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A.R.C. Fraser - A.R.C. Fraser 5-66 v West Indies

Angus Fraser was England's unsung hero in 1995, when his five wicket haul against the West Indies set up a historic Test victory at Lord's. Fraser twice managed to get his name on the Lord's Honours Boards, the first time was during Gooch's Test in 1990 against India, but hi...

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