2012: Lord's hosts the Olympic Archery tournament

Cricket has only featured once in the Olympics - at Paris in 1900 when the amateur team Dorset Wanderers defeated a Parisian XI in a one-off match. But cricket grounds themselves do have a closer involvement with Olympic history. Most notably, the Melbourne Cricket Ground se...

Inside Lord's Competition

wfwef Win a Pair of Hospitality Tickets for the Middlesex V Surrey Vitality Blast Match Experience the thrill of T20 cricket in style With exclusive access to hospitality in the Compton Balcony, offering superb views of the action on the field. Enjoy a summer BBQ in the...

My Lord's Story | Kapil Dev

How would I describe Lord’s? Lord’s is a place with tradition. The Honours Boards. The five-minute bell. The Long Room. For people like me who played in the street, it meant everything to come and play here. Lord’s is a name that you can’t wipe away from your memory. Wa...

L.C. Braund - L.C. Braund 104 v South Africa

Len Braund made his way on to the Honours Boards when he hit a century during the drawn three-day Test between England and South Africa at Lord’s in 1907. England elected to bat and were struggling with a score of 140-4 before Braund took his place at the crease. In an inni...

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Women's Cricket Evolution

women have played the game for just as long as men... Cricket has traditionally been seen as a “male” sport, despite the fact that women have played the game for just as long as men. In 1963, England captain Len Hutton famously said during a charity match against a women’s ...

MCC clarification on Vitality Blast Finals Day 2022

Following a number of queries regarding the final delivery during the VITALITY Blast final on Saturday 16 JULY, MCC has released the following clarification: The match was concluded when the ball was deemed to be dead by the umpire, after the batters had completed one bye fr...

2010: Tamim Iqbal scores 103 for Bangladesh against England

Bangladesh arrived for their second Test tour of England without much of a fanfare. Ten years of Test cricket had brought the country limited success and their only previous visit to England as a Test nation had seen the hosts warm up for the 2005 Ashes series with two wins ...

1970: Garry Sobers scores 183 and takes 6-21 for Rest of the World XI

Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, the young Barbadian who broke Len Hutton’s Test record by scoring 365 not out against Pakistan in 1957-58, was not just a batsman. He was an all-rounder who could bowl left-arm fast-medium, orthodox slow left-arm or left-arm unorthodox as the situa...

MCC WOMEN ON TOUR IN GERMANY

A squad of MCC Women’s players recently arrived home from a successful overseas tour of Dresden, Germany. They participated in a T20 tournament alongside Austria and Germany's national sides as well as a DCB (Deutschland Cricket Bund) Development XI. The squad began the tour...