MCC welcomes inclusion of Women’s Cricket at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

MCC welcomes the decision by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) to include women’s T20 cricket at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022. In March, MCC World Cricket committee expressed unanimous backing for the inclusion of women’s cricket in the 2022 Commonwealt...

Cricket Society & MCC Book of the Year Award 2021

Ashley Gray’s The Unforgiven, Mercenaries or Missionaries? The untold stories of the rebel West Indian cricketers who toured apartheid South Africa is the winner of the 2021 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award.  Chair of judges Robert Winder commended the book f...

MCC Spirit of Cricket Day at Lord's

Nearly 400 schoolchildren visited the Home of Cricket on Monday 4 July as part of the annual Spirit of Cricket Day hosted by MCC, in partnership with Chance to Shine. Pupils from schools across the country took part in a number of activities across the day at Lord’s, which...

Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Awards 2020 and 2021

Duncan Hamilton and Christopher Sandford are the joint winners of the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year 2020. The competition, run by the Cricket Society since 1970 and in partnership with MCC since 2009, is for books nominated by MCC and Cricket Society Members, and ...

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MCC World Cricket committee unanimously backs inclusion of women’s cricket at Birmingham 2022

Marylebone Cricket Club’s World Cricket committee today announced it is unanimously backing the inclusion of a women’s T20 competition in the next Commonwealth Games, to be held in Birmingham, England, in 2022. The announcement came at the conclusion of the committee’s first...

MCC statement regarding duration of Test matches

MCC has noted the recent discussion regarding the future of Test cricket and the ICC’s desire to debate the introduction of four-day Test cricket to replace the current five-day format in the World Test Championship from 2023. The MCC Cricket committee and MCC World Cricket ...

The Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award 2024

The shortlist for the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award 2024 has been announced today. The competition, run by the Cricket Society since 1970 and in partnership with MCC since 2009, is for books nominated by MCC and Cricket Society Members, and is highly regarde...

CRICKET SOCIETY & MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024

The Tour , written by Simon Wilde, has won the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award 2024. Simon’s thematic history of England’s cricket tours since 1877 triumphed at the annual awards ceremony in the Long Room at Lord’s. Books about Bazball and England’s white ba...