The Marylebone Cricket Club is contemplating proposing to the International Cricket Council the use of lie detectors on players in order to clean the sport of corruption, especially spot and match-fixing.
Neil Nicholson and Kelli Fish will become the first couple to marry at Lord's this August.
Expressing serious concern over Test cricket's dwindling profile, including in India, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has called for immediate introduction of day/night matches, besides asking the Cricket Boards to guard against players turning Twenty20 freelancers.
Cricket South Africa (CSA) has paid rich tribute to the world's oldest cricketer, Lindsay Tuckett, who passed away in Bloemfontein this morning at the age of 97.
Ignored by all ten IPL franchises at the players' auction a few months ago, former India skipper Sourav Ganguly will play in next month's Emirates Airline Twenty20 tournament in Dubai. Ganguly was included in a star-studded MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) side that will take part in the event, starting on April 1.
Sachin Tendulkar's bat looks wide, but they are regulation width. It's the thick edges that make it look bigger.
India Test discard Virender Sehwag has been roped in to captain the Marylebone Cricket Club squad in a four-day Champion County match against Durham, starting March 23, in Abu Dhabi.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has been awarded an honorary life membership to the Marylebone Cricket Club.
The on-going 'Spirit of Cricket' series between Pakistan and Australia in England, is proving to be profitable for the Pakistan Cricket Board.
Yuvraj Singh has been included in Marylebone Cricket Club squad to play in Emirates T20
Cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar can still attract a huge crowd in Test matches around the world, said Robin Marlar, a former president of Marylebone Cricket Club, while delivering the inaugural Ranji Memorial Lecture at the Nehru Centre in London on Thursday night.
Australia opener David Warner says flat pitches rather than bats with thicker edges are the reason batsmen have the upper hand in Test cricket.
Lord's chief executive Keith Bradshaw said on Monday he would welcome the opportunity to host a Test between Asian powerhouses Pakistan and India at the headquarters of world cricket next year.
The Marylebone Cricket Club on Monday announced that it will sponsor the Test and Twenty20 series between Pakistan and Australia in England in July. It will be the first time in its 223-year history that the MCC will sponsor international cricket.
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has decided not to bid for the new Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises that would be unveiled on Sunday in Mumbai.
The announcement comes in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal in Cape Town, which resulted in Cricket Australia handing out bans to sacked Australia captain Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft.
The Marylebone Cricket Club, owners of Lord's, has denied that they are considering selling the naming rights of the famous cricket ground. 'I just want to reassure people that there's no way we would rename Lord's,' Bradshaw told BBC radio, denying a report in The Times, London.
If a day-night format is the future of Test cricket going forward, then coloured balls will certainly have a role to play, believe the guardians of the sport -- the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). The ball was tried and tested for the first time in the country in a charity match in Mumbai on Tuesday in which India's international players like Suresh Raina, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma and Gautam Gambhir took part and tried the coloured balls.
The Marylebone Cricket Club is all set to become one of the owners of an Indian Premier League franchise, to be sold next month at a minimum base price of US $225 million, media reports said on Thursday. The Telegraph reported that the MCC, the guardians of the laws of cricket, are in negotiations to join a consortium bidding to buy one of two IPL franchises, likely to be based in Pune, Maharashtra.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who is a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club World Cricket Committee, will skip its upcoming meeting at Lord's on August 11-12.
Gavaskar said playing in home and overseas conditions form the essence of Test cricket.
Former New Zealand skipper Martin Crowe, now a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club's World Cricket Committee, has formulated a knockout Test championship to be held every year with a grand final to be played at Lord's.
England batsman Kevin Pietersen was granted permission on Tuesday to continue his revolutionary switch-hitting tactics by the custodians of the rules of cricket.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) should never have changed the result of the controversial 2006 Oval Test between England and Pakistan to a draw, the custodians of the game's laws said on Sunday. The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) called for the ICC to reinstate the original result that Pakistan had forfeited the Test and said it had set a dangerous precedent by altering the result.
Shaun Pollock, who is leading Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League in the absence of injured Sachin Tendulkar, has been appointed as the newest member of the Marylebone Cricket Club's World Cricket Committee, the custodians of the game's laws.
Not even the guardians of the Ashes at the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) museum are exactly certain what is in the urn given to England cricket captain Ivo Bligh by his future wife while on a playing tour of Australia in 1883.
Cricket's ruling body has restored the initial result of an England win in the controversial 2006 Oval Test forfeited by Pakistan.
Winners of the inaugural edition of Indian Premier League, Rajasthan Royals could get a chance to play at Lord's, the mecca of cricket, if a plan set afoot by Marylebone Cricket Club, the custodian of the ground, gets the green light.
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) will discuss on Tuesday England batsman Kevin Pietersen's spectacular switch-hitting in a one-day international against New Zealand on Sunday. The right-handed Pietersen twice changed grips and switched to a left-hander's stance against Scott Styris, pulling both deliveries for six.
Former test bowler Jason Gillespie has returned home to coach the Adelaide Strikers in Australia's domestic Twenty20 league, dashing speculation the Yorkshire mentor might succeed England coach Peter Moores.
Lord's Cricket Ground's famous weathervane, Father Time, has been damaged during high winds in London over the weekend.
Lord's, cricket's most famous ground, is set for a 200 million pounds redevelopment, owners the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) announced on Wednesday.
A major shift in 'attitude and culture' is needed in cricket in the wake of the Australian ball-tampering saga that has engulfed the sport, according to the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
Lord's may play host to neutral Test matches as part of an expanded programme of world-class fixtures stretching beyond the familiar diet of England Tests and one-day internationals. The idea is to help the MCC fund a 200m ground-redevelopment project.
Marylebone Cricket Club and the DLF Indian Premier League on Wednesday announced a ground-breaking partnership to support the MCC Spirit of Cricket initiative at the inaugural season of the highly anticipated league to be held across eight cities in India between April 18 and June 1. The pioneering agreement will see each of the eight Indian franchises sign an MCC Spirit of Cricket Declaration at the opening ceremony.
MCC and Surrey are mulling over a proposal by IPL organisers to hold exhibition matches at the Lord's and Oval.
A pink cricket ball made its competitive debut in England on Wednesday when Hampshire beat Essex in a floodlit Twenty20 fixture. The match, staged at Hampshire's Rose Bowl, was the first time a match between two English counties had used the luminous ball which is being tested by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the traditional guardians of the laws of cricket.
Six years after being told he had six months to live Michael Soper is in line to land the top job in English cricket.
Before the start of play every day an eminent cricketing personality will ring the bell in the pavilion, which signifies proceedings will commence in five minutes.
'The shot will create a lot of problems. How do you deal with lbws and wides? Do you treat the batsman as right-hander or a left-hander?' the legendary umpire was quoted as saying in the Daily Telegraph.
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