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...

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2020

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2009: Netherlands defeat England in the Men's World T20 tournament

The global spread of cricket is usually associated with British imperial rule, with the modern game thought to be restricted to the nations of the Commonwealth. But there are other countries with long cricket histories which do not correspond to this picture. The Netherlands...

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Bruce Carnegie-Brown and Clare Connor take office at MCC as Chairman and President respectively

Bruce Carnegie-Brown has today taken office as the new Club Chairman of MCC following his approval by Members at the 2021 Annual General Meeting in May this year. He will be the sixth MCC Chairman. Carnegie-Brown, who is currently Chairman of Lloyd’s of London and Vice Chair...

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MCC Legacy Tour progresses

There has been mixed fortunes for MCC in their opening two fixtures of the ‘Legacy Tour’ of Nepal, with the side recording a win and a loss so far. With the players and staff having departed London on Friday, the thirteen-man squad arrived in Kathmandu on Saturday, and prepa...

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Women and Girls

Opening the pathway in both professional and grassroots women’s cricket has been an important target area for MCC. The Club believes that combining an increase in the amount of women’s cricket played at Lord’s with efforts to increase girls participation in youth cricket sho...

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2021

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MCC launch 2025 Community Cricket Heroes campaign

MCC and The Cricketer partner again for Community Cricket Heroes campaign to find and reward 11 unsung grassroots ‘heroes’ of the game Nominations are now open and close at 23.59 BST on 4 June 2025 Winners invited as guests of MCC President Mervyn King at Lord’s in the Pre...

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MCC World Cricket committee statements

The MCC World Cricket committee met in Bengaluru, India on the 8 th and 9 th March 2019. David Richardson, outgoing Chief Executive Officer of the International Cricket Council, provided an update from ICC, and Alex Marshall, General Manager of the ICC Anti-Corruption Unit...

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Lord's Cricket Tickets

WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CRICKET England Women returned to Lord’s in 2022 after a five year absence, and since then their fans have come out to support them, with record-breaking crowds coming to the venue each year. A T20 international will be next as England host New Zeala...

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