Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Head Of Cricket John Stephenson has said he is 'disappointed' with the International Cricket Council's (ICC) decision to defer the World Test Championship to 2017.
The MCC's World Cricket Committee has campaigned since 2009 for the introduction of a Test Championship to add context to the longest format of the game.
Plus news involving Warwickshire, Leicestershire and Hampshire in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
News from Surrey, Yorkshire, Northamptonshire and more in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
Phillip Hodson will replace outgoing MCC President Christopher Martin-Jenkins when the latter's one-year tenure expires on 1st October.
The Yorkshire businessman, former Cambridge University cricket blue, and MCC member since 1979, said of his appointment,
"I'm truly passionate about MCC, and it is a great honour to be President. I'm naturally very excited about the opportunity and cannot wait to get started. It is an interesting period for the Club, which will provide a good challenge, and I am looking forward to meeting and working with all the wonderful people involved with MCC."
MCC are embarking on an end of season tour to Bermuda tomorrow, which will include a series of twenty20 matches and fifty over cricket against the Bermudian national side, alongside a fifty over clash against a President’s XI. The MCC players will also deliver a special coaching session for local schools, in addition to playing in a twenty20 triangular tournament with Bermuda ‘A’ and the Bermuda U19s team, during the fifteen day tour.
ICC Europe in partnership with the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has published seven new European translations of The Laws of Cricket (2000 Code 4th Edition - 2010). All translations are available to download online free for an unlimited period of time.
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the custodian of the laws of the game, has partnered with the Champions League T20 (CLT20) for the third year in a row to promote the spirit of cricket.
The tournament gets underway with a qualifying section ahead of the main competition starting on 23rd September and running until 9th October in Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata.
English cricket's brightest young prospects went head-to-head in a match of the highest quality yesterday when MCC Schools took on the English Schools Cricket Association (ESCA) in a fifty over clash at Lord’s.
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has confirmed that they have reluctantly accepted the resignation of Secretary and Chief Executive Keith Bradshaw.
He has held his position with the MCC since 2006 having become the first Australian to occupy the Chief Executive position but he is now set to move back to Australia following the death of his mother.
MCC World Committee member Martin Crowe chats to us at Lord's following the recent meeting, and discusses the shape of the current game.
He explains how and why research of the use of pink balls and floodlit cricket could be a viable way to move forward and increase the interest of Test cricket around the world.
Outgoing MCC World Cricket Committee Chairman Tony Lewis talks to Cricket World TV at Lord's.
He talks about the varied discussions that have taken place on the committee during his time as chairman and talks at length about the future of the game, including the need to protect Test cricket and what role Twenty20 cricket can play.
He also looks back on his own career, picking out his career highlights.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has revealed that Lord's will host the 2012 Test between England and the West Indies.
The match was originally awarded to Cardiff but was put out to tender again after the ECB was advised that Glamorgan would be unable to promptly pay the staging fee for the recent Test between England and Sri Lanka.
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has announced that Anglo Indian (AI), the real estate development and investment company, has become the first sponsor of the MCC Cricket Academy. The four year agreement delivers a comprehensive package of sponsorship rights covering the constituent parts of the MCC Cricket Academy - the Indoor Cricket School, Nursery Ground and MCC Young Cricketers Squad - and is the first deal of its kind in MCC’s 224-year history.
In celebration of their 150th anniversary, Melbourne Town Cricket Club are welcoming the world famous Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) to the cricket ground in Cockshut Lane on Sunday 31st July. Unusually in these days, the match is a day game starting at 11am.
The MCC team is made up of former county cricketers and current Derbyshire Premier League cricketers, many of whom will be making a long journey to the ground to play in the match.
Students from Cardiff and Durham will pit their cricketing skills against each other when they meet at Lord’s on Monday 27th June to contest the final of the MCC Universities Challenge competition.
Durham and Cardiff MCCUs beat off competition from Cambridge, Oxford, Leeds/Bradford and Loughborough to take the two top spots in the MCC Universities Championship, consequently securing their places in the annual final at the Home of Cricket.
For the fourth year running, Armed Forces cricket will once again be showcased at Lord's, the Home of Cricket, on 28 June, with the Royal Navy hoping to retain the title of Inter Services Twenty20 (IST20) champions.
