MCC BEGINS 2024 OVERSEAS TOURING PROGRAMME WITH MEN’S TOUR OF RWANDA

MCC embarked on its first overseas tour of 2024 today, as a men’s squad departed for Rwanda. A 13-man squad left Lord’s on Tuesday morning to travel to Kigali, the capital of the country, where all of the Club’s matches will take place on the tour. The trip has been organis...

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1982: Pakistan beat England to claim their first Lord's Test victory

Most new Test playing nations have to wait some time before they can claim a win away from home against more experienced opposition. This wasn’t true of Pakistan. On their very first tour of England in 1954 they forced a dramatic win in a low-scoring match at the Oval to dra...

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1928: The Ashes Urn is presented to MCC

The Ashes Urn is 10.5 centimetres tall and weighs 124.8 grams. Nobody can be sure where it originally came from, or what is really inside it. But we can be certain what it represents. The idea of the Ashes originated with England’s first defeat by Australia on English soil,...

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MCC and The Cricketer Cricket Community Champion Award 2021

MCC are teaming up with The Cricketer Magazine again to reward one dedicated cricket club volunteer with the honour of ringing the bell at Lord’s, ahead of the Royal London One-Day International between England and Pakistan in July. The Cricket Community Champion Award is no...

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Spirit of Cricket

The Cowdrey Lecture MCC’s Spirit of Cricket Day is an annual event which sees around 600 schoolchildren experience what it is like to star at the Home of Cricket.  The event is run in collaboration with Chance to Shine, the national cricketing charity which aims to spread th...

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Transforming lives overseas

Lebanon Nepal There is huge passion for cricket in Nepal, but a lack of investment and infrastructure. Working with key partners including Kidasha, Connecting Clubs, Cricket Without Boundaries, and MCC, we are providing life-enhancing opportunities.through cricket for young p...

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THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEARD AWARD 2025

The shortlist for the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award 2025 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 regar...

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Wisden–MCC Cricket Photograph of the Year Announced

It has been announced today that Phil Hillyard has won the Wisden–MCC Cricket Photograph of the Year 2018 competition, with his image from a Big Bash League match in Sydney. Hillyard, of News Corp Australia, captured Sydney Sixers’ Moises Henriques holding on to an outstandi...

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Men's Highlights

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G.D. McGrath - G.D. McGrath 8-38 v England

Glenn McGrath reached the Lord's Honours Boards for the first time when he took the best individual figures for an overseas bowler at the Home of Cricket, during the summer of 1997. Overcast conditions had potentially forseen a torrid time for batsmen and once Mark Taylor el...

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