MCC Women’s squad head to Malta for inaugural Valletta Cup

MCC has today continued its Overseas Touring Programme for 2024, with a women's squad departing Lord's for Malta. The Club has already toured Rwanda, the Netherlands and Estonia this year, with men's squads embarking on those trips, and now a squad of 12 women's Playing Memb...

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J.M. Anderson - J.M. Anderson 5-65 v India

England’s tussle with India at Lord’s in 2011 was the 2000 th Test Match and the 100 th between the sides, but James Anderson put his own personal slant on proceedings by sealing a third place on the Honours Board at the Home of Cricket. His 5 for 65 in India’s second inni...

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1953: Trevor Bailey and Willie Watson salvage a draw for England against Australia

Before Mike Atherton’s 10 hour and 43-minute vigil at Johannesburg, or Jack Leach’s valiant 1 not out at Headingley, the epitome of dogged, backs-to-the-wall English resistance was Trevor Bailey and Willie Watson at Lord’s in 1953. It was 20 years since England had won an As...

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Looking Back: Cricket at Christmas

As Christmas is just around the corner MCC Archivist Rob Curphey looks back at some interesting cricketing Christmas connections. Cricket at Christmas England did win a Test match once on Christmas Day, in 1972 against India, where on the fifth day of the match in Delhi, ca...

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Sustainability Strategy

OF THE CHALLENGES FACING US TODAY, CLIMATE CHANGE IS AMONG THE MOST SIGNIFICANT, AND MCC IS VERY AWARE OF THE IMPACT CLIMATE CHANGE CAN HAVE ON CRICKET. Examples include the increase in the number of rain-affected matches, changes to how pitches are managed, damage to facili...

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1964: Fred Trueman takes his fifth five-wicket haul at Lord's

The perfect fast-bowler’s combination of aggression and skill characterised Fred Trueman. Genuinely fast in his youth, as his career progressed, he learned to rely on movement off the pitch and in the air, becoming the first bowler to take 300 Test wickets in 1964. ‘Fiery Fr...

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World Cup Finals Part 1: The Prudential Cup Era

With the 2019 Cricket World Cup final at Lord's fast approaching, MCC Archivist Rob Curphey looks back at previous World Cups finals. The first World Cup final was held at Lord’s on 21 June 1975, the climax of a tournament which took place in England over two weeks in June 1...

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MCC Cowdrey Lecture 2021: Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry, a lifelong cricket supporter and MCC Foundation Patron, spoke at the twentieth edition of the MCC Cowdrey Lecture at Lord’s on Tuesday 16 November 2021.  MCC Members and special guests were among the audience for the evening, while 8,500 viewers tuned into the l...

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1886: The Parsees are the first team from India to play at Lord's

The ground breaking tour by the Parsees was the first by any Indian side to play in England. The team was drawn from the highest echelons of Indian society and its players were considered ‘gentlemen’ according to the social division of English cricket at the time. While the ...

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