Kumar Sangakkara takes office as MCC President

One of the all-time legends of cricket, Kumar Sangakkara, today takes up his role as President of Marylebone Cricket Club. The former Sri Lankan international is the first non-British President of MCC and will hold the post for one year. His nomination was announced by th...

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World Cup Finals Part 4: The Current Era

With the 2019 Cricket World Cup final at Lord's fast approaching, MCC Archivist Rob Curphey looks back at previous World Cups finals. 2015 The 2011 Cricket World Cup was hosted jointly between three countries; India, Sri Lanka and for the first time, Bangladesh. For th...

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R.J.W Topley - REECE TOPLEY 6-24 V INDIA

Reece Topley became the first English Men's bowler to write his name onto the Limited-Overs Honours Boards since Darren Gough in 1997 thanks to a match-winning 6-24 against India at Lord’s. A superb spell saw Topley finish the match with the best figures by an English men's ...

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MCC Committees

A private club with a public function MCC World Cricket Committee MCC Secretariat Established in April 2006, MCC’s World Cricket committee is an independent body comprised of current and former international cricketers and umpires from across the globe. Meeting twice yearl...

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B.A. Stokes - B.A. Stokes 6-22 v West Indies

Ben Stokes took a Test best 6-22 to claim a spot on the bowling Honours Boards for the first time in a dominating display with the ball versus West Indies in the summer of 2017. In the first Lord's Test match to start in September, Stokes, who hit the fastest Test century ev...

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A.J. Strauss - A.J. Strauss 137 v West Indies

Andrew Strauss scored his second hundred at Lord’s of the summer to help England to victory over West Indies in 2004. The opener, playing in just his second test at the Home of Cricket, had already scored 112 versus New Zealand on Test debut two months before and continued t...

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Global Refugee Cricket Fund

  - Marylebone Cricket Club and MCC Foundation launch Global Refugee Cricket Fund in support of displaced persons - ECB donation of £100,000 to help immediately kickstart projects that use cricket to transform lives of refugees facing hardship and exclusion - Pitch ...

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A.J. Strauss - A.J. Strauss 161 v Australia

Andrew Strauss’ fourth place on the Honours Boards was one of his finest and indeed, most important during the 2 nd Test of Australia’s Ashes tour in 2009 at Lord’s. Leading from the front, Strauss shared a superb partnership of 196 with fellow opener Alastair Cook with the...

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A.L. Hassett - A.L. Hassett 104 v England

Arthur Lindsay Hassett scored 104 in the second test of the 1953 Ashes Series at Lord’s to put his name up on the honours boards. Hassett also the Australian skipper opened the batting and enabled them to a total of 346 after winning the toss and electing to bat. Hassett’s ...

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