2009: Pakistan wins the Men’s and England wins the Women's World T20 Finals on the same day

T20 cricket went from unfamiliar new format to World Cup Final in just four years. The longer limited overs game had taken 12 years to reach the same stage of development. By the time the second men’s tournament was held in England in 2009, T20 matches had become an establis...

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2001: Richie Benaud delivers the first MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture

Cricket’s rise as a popular sport in the 18 th century left little room for the spirit of the game. It was a vehicle for serious gambling and match-fixing, with intimidation and outright cheating far from unknown. But by the beginning of the 19 th century this was beginnin...

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2005: Australia's Glenn McGrath takes his 500th Test wicket

Glenn McGrath followed Sir Richard Hadlee in becoming the second visiting bowler to take a ‘five-for’ on three consecutive Test appearances at Lord’s. When you consider that he only played three Test Matches at the Home of Cricket, the achievement becomes even more impressiv...

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1998: Sachin Tendulkar scores 125 in W.G. Grace 150th Anniversary match

One of the greatest anomalies about the Lord’s Honours Boards is the absence from them of one of cricket’s greatest ever batsmen. In five Test appearances at Lord’s, Sachin Tendulkar never got past 37 and his average of 21.66 does scant justice to his huge talent and vast re...

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MCC Launches New Schools’ Initiative as World Cup Trophy Visits Lord’s

MCC today launched their Westminster state secondary school league at the Home of Cricket as the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Trophy visited Lord’s Cricket Ground. To mark the occasion, MCC invited local secondary schools to Lord’s to compete in the new secondary school leagu...

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England v Australia | Day 5

A thrilling Test match ended in a draw despite England’s best efforts in the second match of the Specsavers Ashes Series at Lord’s. Ben Stokes’ scintillating century had set the hosts up for a tilt at victory and despite the concerted effort of a bowling attack that included...

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MCC Women set to tour Ireland

It has been announced today that MCC will visit Ireland for a two-match Women’s tour later this year. The two fixtures, to be played in July, are the first Women’s matches that MCC will have played in Ireland. Both matches will be against an Ireland Women’s Select XI – with ...

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1993: The first of Andrew Festing's Conversation Piece paintings is unveiled

In 1991, MCC’s Curator of Collections Stephen Green presented a paper to the Club’s Arts & Library sub-committee outlining the growth of MCC’s collection of cricket portraits since 1890. The results, he said, had been piecemeal and a number of significant cricketers from rec...

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