2018: Alastair Cook plays his 26th Lord's Test

Sir Alastair Cook’s 26 Test Matches at Lord’s are a record at the Home of Cricket and the second highest total for a player’s appearances on a single ground in all Test cricket. Only Mahela Jayawardene’s 27 outings at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground in Colombo, Sri Lanka ra...

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1864: W.G. Grace plays at Lord's for the first time

It would be easy to see the year 1864 as the starting point for modern cricket. MCC legalised over-arm bowling, the first edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack appeared and a young William Gilbert Grace, just three days beyond his 16 th birthday, made his first appearanc...

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Lord’s plays host to an exciting week of cricket

As a sensational season of cricket gets into full swing, Lord’s will host five exciting matches across a highly-anticipated week at the Home of Cricket. Royal London One-Day Cup Final Defending champions Hampshire will take on Somerset in this year’s Royal London One-Day Cu...

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Power Play: The Future of Women's Cricket

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Youngsters rub shoulders with greats following MCC World Cricket committee meeting

Members of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) World Cricket committee today took part in a Community event at Lord’s, following their biannual meeting to discuss some of the most important and pressing issues in the game. The committee, which is funded and administered by MCC...

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Morgan and Knight to captain London Spirit at Lord's

It has been announced today that England’s World Cup winning captains Heather Knight and Eoin Morgan will be leading London Spirit women’s and men’s teams respectively in The Hundred next year. Knight and Morgan will join the team based at Lord’s, where they both lifted the ...

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MCC Foundation Host National Hub Competition Finals at Lord’s

Marylebone Cricket Club Foundation (MCCF) hosted the boys’ and girls’ finals of its annual National Hub Competition at Lord’s Cricket Ground on Saturday 30 July. The event marked the conclusion of a 20-week long competition that has seen boys and girls aged 15 and under from...

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MCC launch 2025 Community Cricket Heroes campaign

MCC and The Cricketer partner again for Community Cricket Heroes campaign to find and reward 11 unsung grassroots ‘heroes’ of the game Nominations are now open and close at 23.59 BST on 4 June 2025 Winners invited as guests of MCC President Mervyn King at Lord’s in the Pre...

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MCC Cricket

Covid-19 Update Due to the ongoing restrictions on cricket as a result of Covid-19 and in the interests of safety of all our stakeholders, all MCC Out-Matches that are scheduled to take place in June and July 2020 have been cancelled. This decision is in line with the Englan...

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MCC begin 2020 touring programme with trip to Argentina

MCC begin their overseas touring programme for 2020 later this week, when a thirteen-man squad departs for Argentina. The thirteen-day trip is the Club’s first visit to the South American country since 2013 and MCC will play a mixture of 50-over and T20 cricket on the tour. ...

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