Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mark Boucher elected as Honorary Life Members

MCC has today announced the election of Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mark Boucher as Honorary Life Members. The Club has bestowed this honour in recognition of their outstanding achievements in cricket. Inzamam played 119 Test Matches for Pakistan, captaining them from 2001-07 and sco...

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Bell Ringers

The ringing of the five-minute bell at Lord’s by an international cricketer, administrator or well-known enthusiast of the sport is a recent tradition introduced in 2007. The bell, which is located outside the Bowlers’ Bar of the Lord’s Pavilion, is rung to signify the immin...

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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...

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Mark Nicholas to become next President of MCC

Mark Nicholas has been named as the next President of MCC. He will serve a 12-month term as President, taking up the post on 1 October 2023. His appointment was announced by the current President , Stephen Fry, at the Club’s Annual General Meeting held earlier today.  Mark...

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2017: England's James Anderson takes his 500th Test wicket

Few bowlers have had as much success at Lord’s as James Anderson. In 23 Test Matches at the Ground, he has bowled 5,439 balls and taken 103 wickets at an average of 23.89, making him the leading Test wicket-taker at the Home of Cricket. One of those cricketers who just seems...

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The wicket-keeper

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T. Greenhough - T. Greenhough 5- 35 v India

In his second of only four Tests, Tommy Greenhough took his only five-wicket haul against India at Lord’s in 1959. In 31 balls he took five wickets for 12 runs, one of his victims being Nari Contractor. He would have obtained more wickets had the wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans...

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Lord’s to host Rachael Heyhoe Flint Final in 2022 | Fixtures Announced

We are delighted to confirm that the final of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy is coming to Lord’s for the first time.   In its third year, the popular domestic women’s regional 50-over competition, named after the late Baroness Heyhoe Flint, will reach its concluding match w...

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Cricket Society & MCC Book of the Year Award 2023

An Island’s Eleven, the Story of Sri Lankan Cricket by Nicholas Brookes has won the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award for 2023. Books by former and current cricketers Wasim Akram, Moeen Ali and Geoffrey Boycott were among those shortlisted, with all six book...

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