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href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC" title="মেরিলেবোন ক্রিকেট ক্লাব – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মেরিলেবোন ক্রিকেট ক্লাব" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marylebone_Cricket_Club" title="Marylebone Cricket Club – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Marylebone Cricket Club" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marylebone_Cricket_Club" title="Marylebone Cricket Club – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Marylebone Cricket Club" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%BC%CF%80o%CE%BD_%CE%9A%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%84_%CE%9A%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BC%CF%80" title="Μάρλεμπoν Κρίκετ Κλαμπ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μάρλεμπoν Κρίκετ Κλαμπ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marylebone_Cricket_Club" title="Marylebone Cricket Club – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Marylebone Cricket Club" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriketa_Klubo_Marylebone" title="Kriketa Klubo Marylebone – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kriketa Klubo Marylebone" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marylebone_Cricket_Club" title="Marylebone Cricket Club – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Marylebone Cricket Club" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%AC" title="मेरीलेबोन क्रिकेट क्लब – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="मेरीलेबोन क्रिकेट क्लब" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%AC%E0%B3%8A%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D%E2%80%8C_%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%AC%E0%B3%8D%E2%80%8C" title="ಮಾರಿಲೆಬೊನ್‌ ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟ್ ಕ್ಲಬ್‌ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಮಾರಿಲೆಬೊನ್‌ ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟ್ ಕ್ಲಬ್‌" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%89_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA" title="نادى مارليبون للكريكت – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="نادى مارليبون للكريكت" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marylebone_Cricket_Club" title="Marylebone Cricket Club – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Marylebone Cricket Club" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B1%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%96" title="メリルボーン・クリケット・クラブ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="メリルボーン・クリケット・クラブ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marylebone_Cricket_Club" title="Marylebone Cricket Club – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Marylebone Cricket Club" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a 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title="Marylebone Cricket Club – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Marylebone Cricket Club" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marylebone_Cricket_Club" title="Marylebone Cricket Club – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Marylebone Cricket Club" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%98%E0%B0%82" title="మార్లేబోన్ క్రికెట్ సంఘం – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/Marylebone_Cricket_Club_logo.svg/150px-Marylebone_Cricket_Club_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/Marylebone_Cricket_Club_logo.svg/225px-Marylebone_Cricket_Club_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/Marylebone_Cricket_Club_logo.svg/300px-Marylebone_Cricket_Club_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="326" data-file-height="307" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:lavender">Team information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="background:inherit">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1787<span class="noprint">; 237 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1787</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="background:inherit">Home ground</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Cricket_Ground" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord's Cricket Ground">Lord's Cricket Ground</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="background:inherit">Official website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lords.org/mcc/the-club/about-the-mcc">lords.org/mcc</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Marylebone Cricket Club</b> (<b>MCC</b>) is a <a href="/wiki/Cricket_club" class="mw-redirect" title="Cricket club">cricket club</a> founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's Cricket Ground</a>, which it owns, in <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_Wood" title="St John's Wood">St John's Wood</a>, <a href="/wiki/NW_postcode_area" title="NW postcode area">London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The club, formerly the governing body of <a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricket</a>, retains considerable global influence. </p><p>In 1788, the MCC took responsibility for the <a href="/wiki/Laws_of_cricket" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws of cricket">laws of cricket</a>, issuing a revised version that year. Changes to these Laws are now determined by the <a href="/wiki/International_Cricket_Council" title="International Cricket Council">International Cricket Council</a> (ICC), but the copyright is still owned by MCC.<sup id="cite_ref-Laws_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Laws-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the ICC was established in 1909, it was administered by the secretary of the MCC, and the president of MCC automatically assumed the chairmanship of ICC until 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For much of the 20th century, commencing with the <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1903%E2%80%9304" title="English cricket team in Australia in 1903–04">1903–04 tour of Australia</a> and ending with the <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_India_and_Sri_Lanka_in_1976%E2%80%9377" title="English cricket team in India and Sri Lanka in 1976–77">1976–77 tour of India</a>, MCC organised international tours on behalf of the <a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England cricket team</a> for playing <a href="/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Test matches</a>. On these tours, the <a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England team</a> played under the auspices of MCC in non-international matches. In 1993, its administrative and governance functions were transferred to the <a href="/wiki/International_Cricket_Council" title="International Cricket Council">ICC</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Test_and_County_Cricket_Board" title="Test and County Cricket Board">Test and County Cricket Board</a> (TCCB). </p><p>MCC teams are essentially <i>ad hoc</i> because they have never taken part in any formal competition but have always held <a href="/wiki/First-class_cricket" title="First-class cricket">first-class status</a> when playing against first-class opposition. </p><p>The current president of the club is <a href="/wiki/Mark_Nicholas" title="Mark Nicholas">Mark Nicholas</a>, the former <a href="/wiki/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Hampshire County Cricket Club">Hampshire</a> captain, who succeeded <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Fry" title="Stephen Fry">Stephen Fry</a> on 1 October 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_and_role">History and role</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History and role"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The origin of MCC was as a <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club" title="Gentlemen's club">gentlemen's club</a> that had flourished through most of the 18th century, including, at least in part, an existence as the original <a href="/wiki/London_Cricket_Club" title="London Cricket Club">London Cricket Club</a>, which had played at the <a href="/wiki/Artillery_Ground" title="Artillery Ground">Artillery Ground</a> through the middle years of the century. Many of its members became involved with the <a href="/wiki/Hambledon_Club" title="Hambledon Club">Hambledon Club</a> through the 1770s and then, in the early 1780s, had returned to the London area where the <a href="/wiki/White_Conduit_Club" title="White Conduit Club">White Conduit Club</a> had begun in <a href="/wiki/Islington" title="Islington">Islington</a>. It is not known for certain when the White Conduit was founded but it seems to have been after 1780 and certainly by 1785. According to <a href="/wiki/Pelham_Warner" class="mw-redirect" title="Pelham Warner">Sir Pelham Warner</a>, it was formed in 1782 as an offshoot from a <a href="/wiki/West_End_of_London" title="West End of London">West End</a> convivial club called the <i>Je-ne-sais-quoi</i>, some of whose members frequented the <a href="/wiki/White_Conduit_House" title="White Conduit House">White Conduit House</a> in <a href="/wiki/Islington" title="Islington">Islington</a> and played matches on the neighbouring <a href="/wiki/White_Conduit_Fields" title="White Conduit Fields">White Conduit Fields</a>, which had been a prominent venue for cricket in the 1720s.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Haygarth" title="Arthur Haygarth">Arthur Haygarth</a> said in <i>Scores and Biographies</i> that "the Marylebone Club was founded in 1787 from the White Conduit's members" but the date of the formation of the White Conduit "could not be found".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This gentlemen's club, which was multi-purpose, had a social meeting place at the <i>Star and Garter</i> on <a href="/wiki/Pall_Mall,_London" title="Pall Mall, London">Pall Mall</a>. It was the same club that was responsible for drafting the <a href="/wiki/Laws_of_Cricket" title="Laws of Cricket">Laws of Cricket</a> at various times, most notably in 1744 and 1774, and this lawgiving responsibility was soon to be vested in the MCC as the final repose of these cricketing gentlemen. When the White Conduit began, its leading lights were <a href="/wiki/George_Finch,_9th_Earl_of_Winchilsea" title="George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea">George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea</a> (1752–1826) and the <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lennox,_4th_Duke_of_Richmond" title="Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond">Hon. Colonel Charles Lennox</a> (1764–1819), later succeeding as the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Richmond" title="Duke of Richmond">4th Duke of Richmond</a>. White Conduit was nominally an exclusive club that only "gentlemen" might play for, but the club did engage professionals and one of these was <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lord" title="Thomas Lord">Thomas Lord</a>, a man who was recognised for his business acumen (becoming a successful <a href="/wiki/Vintner" class="mw-redirect" title="Vintner">wine</a> <a href="/wiki/Mercer_(occupation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mercer (occupation)">merchant</a>) "as well as his bowling ability".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DB47_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DB47-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The new club might have continued except that White Conduit Fields was an open area allowing members of the public, including the rowdier elements, to watch the matches and to voice their opinions on the play and the players. The White Conduit gentlemen were not amused by such interruptions and decided to look for a more private venue of their own.<sup id="cite_ref-DB47_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DB47-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Winchilsea and Lennox asked Lord to find a new ground and offered him a guarantee against any losses he may suffer in the venture.<sup id="cite_ref-HSA51_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HSA51-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DB47_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DB47-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lord took a lease from the <a href="/wiki/Portman_Estate" title="Portman Estate">Portman Estate</a> on some land at Dorset Fields where <a href="/wiki/Dorset_Square" title="Dorset Square">Dorset Square</a> is now sited; and <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Old_Ground" title="Lord's Old Ground">the ground</a> was prepared and opened in 1787. It was initially called the New Cricket Ground, perhaps because it was off what was then called "the New Road" in <a href="/wiki/Marylebone" title="Marylebone">Marylebone</a>, when the first known match was played there on 21 May but, by the end of July, it was known as <i>Lord's</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-GB110_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GB110-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As it was in Marylebone, the White Conduit members who relocated to it soon decided to call themselves the "Mary-le-bone Club".<sup id="cite_ref-GB115_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GB115-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The exact date of MCC's foundation is lost but seems to have been sometime in the late spring or the summer of 1787.<sup id="cite_ref-PW18_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW18-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 10 & 11 July 1837, a <a href="/wiki/North_v_South" title="North v South">South v North</a> match was staged at Lord's to commemorate the MCC's Golden Jubilee. Warner described it as "a Grand Match to celebrate the Jubilee of the Club" and reproduced the full scorecard.<sup id="cite_ref-PW18_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW18-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 25 April 1787, the London <i>Morning Herald</i> newspaper carried a notice: "The Members of the Cricket Club are desired to meet at the <i>Star and Garter</i>, Pall Mall, on Mon., April 30. Dinner on table exactly at half past five o'clock. N.B. The favour of an answer is desired".<sup id="cite_ref-GB110_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GB110-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The agenda is unknown but, only three weeks later on Saturday, 19 May, the <i>Morning Herald</i> advertised: "A grand match will be played on Monday, 21 May in the New Cricket Ground, the New Road, Mary-le-bone, between eleven Noblemen of the White Conduit Club and eleven Gentlemen of the County of Middlesex with two men given, for 500 guineas a side. The wickets to be pitched at ten o'clock, and the match to be played out". No post-match report has been found but, as <a href="/wiki/G._B._Buckley" title="G. B. Buckley">G. B. Buckley</a> said, it was "apparently the first match to be played on Lord's new ground".<sup id="cite_ref-GB110_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GB110-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A total of eight matches are known to have been played at Lord's in 1787, one of them a <a href="/wiki/Single_wicket_cricket" title="Single wicket cricket">single wicket</a> event. The only one which featured the Mary-le-bone Club took place on Monday, 30 July. It was advertised in <i>The World</i> on Friday, 27 July 1787: "On Monday, 30 July will be played (at Lord's) a match between 11 gentlemen of the Mary-le-bone Club and 11 gentlemen of the Islington Club".<sup id="cite_ref-GB115_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GB115-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Buckley stated that "this is the earliest notice of the Marylebone Club".<sup id="cite_ref-GB115_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GB115-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As with the inaugural match at Lord's, no post-match report of the inaugural MCC match has been found. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Grounds">Grounds</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Grounds"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dorset_square_plaque.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Dorset_square_plaque.jpg/200px-Dorset_square_plaque.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Dorset_square_plaque.jpg/300px-Dorset_square_plaque.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Dorset_square_plaque.jpg/400px-Dorset_square_plaque.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>A plaque in Dorset Square marks the site of the original Lord's Ground and commemorates the founding of the MCC</figcaption></figure> <p>There have been three Lord's grounds: the original on the <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Portman" title="Viscount Portman">Portman Estate</a> and two on the <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Crosthwaite-Eyre" title="Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre">Eyre Estate</a>. All three sites lie to the west of <a href="/wiki/Regent%27s_Park" title="Regent's Park">Regent's Park</a>. Thomas Lord leased the original ground, now referred to as <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Old_Ground" title="Lord's Old Ground">Lord's Old Ground</a>, from the Portman Estate in 1787 and MCC played there until 1810 when Lord, after objecting to a rent increase, decided on termination of the lease to lift his turf and move out.<sup id="cite_ref-PW18_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW18-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over 200 matches are known to have been played there, mostly involving MCC and/or <a href="/wiki/Middlesex_county_cricket_teams" title="Middlesex county cricket teams">Middlesex</a>. The Old Ground was on the site now occupied by <a href="/wiki/Dorset_Square" title="Dorset Square">Dorset Square</a> which is east of <a href="/wiki/Marylebone_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="Marylebone Station">Marylebone Station</a> and west of <a href="/wiki/Baker_Street" title="Baker Street">Baker Street</a>. To commemorate the association, a plaque was unveiled in Dorset Square on 9 May 2006 by <a href="/wiki/Sir_Andrew_Strauss" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Andrew Strauss">Sir Andrew Strauss</a>. </p><p>Lord had been aware some years before 1810 that the Portman Estate intended to let the site on building leases which would command the much higher rent of over £600 per annum.<sup id="cite_ref-PW18_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW18-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 15 October 1808, he rented two fields in the North Bank area of the St John's Wood Estate, which belonged to Richard Eyre, a local landowner after whom <a href="/wiki/Eyre%27s_Tunnel" title="Eyre's Tunnel">Eyre's Tunnel</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Regent%27s_Canal" title="Regent's Canal">Regent's Canal</a> was named. Rental on the Eyre site was only £54 per annum for a term of eighty years and free of both land tax and tithe.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The new ground was ready for use in 1809 and so Lord had two grounds at his disposal for the 1809 and 1810 seasons. The North Bank ground was sub-let to <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_Wood_Cricket_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="St John's Wood Cricket Club">St John's Wood Cricket Club</a> which eventually merged with MCC.<sup id="cite_ref-PW19_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW19-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lord officially took over his second ground on 8 May 1811 by re-laying there his turf from the Old Ground. He did this so that "the noblemen and gentlemen of the MCC should be able to play on the same footing as before".<sup id="cite_ref-PW19_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW19-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Warner, however, the relocation was unpopular with many MCC members and, as a result, the club played no matches there in either 1811 or 1812.<sup id="cite_ref-PW19_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW19-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This may have been so, but cricket generally was in decline at the time because of the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Cricket_Statisticians_and_Historians" class="mw-redirect" title="Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians">Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians</a> (the ACS) holds that "(from) 1810 to 1814 the game was all but dead", largely because of the war and "the very real threat of civil unrest in England".<sup id="cite_ref-ACS4_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ACS4-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second venue is now generally known as <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Middle_Ground" title="Lord's Middle Ground">Lord's Middle Ground</a>. In the three years that Lord controlled it, only six matches are known to have taken place there and just three of these (all in 1813) involved MCC. The Middle Ground's exact location is uncertain but it is understood to have been in North Bank at the north end of <a href="/wiki/Lisson_Grove" title="Lisson Grove">Lisson Grove</a> and that the <a href="/wiki/Regent%27s_Canal" title="Regent's Canal">Regent's Canal</a> has been cut through it. This means that it was partially on the canal route and somewhere in the area now bounded by Lisson Grove (the B507) to south-west, Lodge Road to north-west, Park Road (<a href="/wiki/A41_road" title="A41 road">the A41</a>) to north-east and the Regent's Canal to south-east. It was less than 300 <a href="/wiki/Yard" title="Yard">yards</a> (270 <a href="/wiki/Metre" title="Metre">m</a>) from the site of the modern <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's</a> ground.<sup id="cite_ref-PW19_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW19-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lord was forced to abandon the Middle Ground because of the canal construction. The decision on the route was made by <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament</a> in 1813. Lord, via his protégé <a href="/wiki/Lord_Frederick_Beauclerk" title="Lord Frederick Beauclerk">Lord Frederick Beauclerk</a>, approached the Eyre family who agreed to lease him another plot nearby in <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_Wood" title="St John's Wood">St John's Wood</a>, but at an increased rent of £100 per annum. Lord accepted and again removed and relaid his turf in time for the start of the 1814 season. This third ground was the present <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's</a>, now home to MCC for over 200 years.<sup id="cite_ref-PW19_16-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW19-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_grounds">Other grounds</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Other grounds"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1996 to 2008, the MCC played nine first class matches and three list A matches against touring sides at grounds other than Lords:<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Denis_Compton_Oval" title="Denis Compton Oval">Denis Compton Oval</a>, Shenley, Hertfordshire: (1996–1999) <ul><li>1996 vs <a href="/wiki/South_Africa_A_cricket_team" title="South Africa A cricket team">South Africa A</a> (first class)</li> <li>1996 vs <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan cricket team">Pakistan</a> (list A)</li> <li>1997 vs <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_A_cricket_team" title="Pakistan A cricket team">Pakistan A</a> (first class)</li> <li>1999 vs <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_A_cricket_team" title="Sri Lanka A cricket team">Sri Lanka</a> (first class)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_Parks#Cricket_ground" title="University Parks">University Parks</a>, Oxford, Oxfordshire: (2000) <ul><li>2000 vs <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_A_cricket_team" title="New Zealand A cricket team">New Zealand A</a> (first class)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Savile_Park" title="Savile Park">Savile Park</a>, Castleford, Yorkshire: (2000) <ul><li>2000 vs <a href="/wiki/Zimbabwe_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Zimbabwe cricket team">Zimbabwe</a> (list A)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arundel_Castle_Cricket_Ground" title="Arundel Castle Cricket Ground">Arundel Castle Cricket Ground</a>, Arundel, Sussex: (2001–2007) <ul><li>2001 vs <a href="/wiki/Australia_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Australia cricket team">Australia</a> (first class)</li> <li>2004 vs <a href="/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team" title="West Indies cricket team">West Indies</a> (first class)</li> <li>2007 vs <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_A_cricket_team" title="Sri Lanka A cricket team">Sri Lanka A</a> (first class)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Park,_Chesterfield" title="Queen's Park, Chesterfield">Queen's Park, Chesterfield</a>, Derbyshire: (2002) <ul><li>2002 vs <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lanka cricket team">Sri Lanka</a> (first class)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Racecourse" title="The Racecourse">The Racecourse</a>, Durham: (2007–2008) <ul><li>2007 vs <a href="/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team" title="West Indies cricket team">West Indies</a> (first class)</li> <li>2008 vs <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_A_cricket_team" title="Bangladesh A cricket team">Bangladesh A</a> (list A)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Laws_of_Cricket"><i>Laws of Cricket</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Laws of Cricket"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Laws_of_Cricket" title="Laws of Cricket">Laws of Cricket</a></div> <p>MCC is the body responsible for, and remains the copyright holder of, the <i><a href="/wiki/Laws_of_Cricket" title="Laws of Cricket">Laws of Cricket</a></i>. Its Laws Sub-Committee is responsible for debating and drafting changes to the Laws, with the Main Committee then voting on any changes proposed.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Membership">Membership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Membership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MCC_member.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/MCC_member.jpg/175px-MCC_member.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/MCC_member.jpg/263px-MCC_member.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/MCC_member.jpg/350px-MCC_member.jpg 2x" data-file-width="763" data-file-height="864" /></a><figcaption>MCC member sporting the club's distinctive blazer</figcaption></figure> <p>MCC has 18,000 full members and 5,000 associate members. Members have voting rights and can use the <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Pavilion" title="Lord's Pavilion">Pavilion</a> and other stands at <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Cricket_Ground" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord's Cricket Ground">Lord's Cricket Ground</a> to attend all matches played there.<sup id="cite_ref-HTJ_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HTJ-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The club's members did not allow female membership up until 1998, with club ballots on the change not achieving the two-thirds majority amongst the membership required for implementation.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The move to change was spearheaded by <a href="/wiki/Rachael_Heyhoe_Flint" title="Rachael Heyhoe Flint">Rachael Heyhoe Flint</a> who applied as "R Flint" to slip into the male-only application system.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When <a href="/wiki/Colin_Ingleby-Mackenzie" title="Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie">Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie</a>, a longstanding supporter of women's membership, took on the presidency of MCC in 1996 he led a two-year campaign to convince the membership to vote in favour of change. In September 1998 a 70% majority of members voted to allow female membership, so ending 212 years of male exclusivity, and 10 honorary life members were immediately admitted, including Heyhoe Flint. Until this time, <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">The Queen</a>, the club's patron, was the only woman (other than domestic staff) permitted to enter the Pavilion during play.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 1999, five women were invited to join as playing members.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In order to join the waiting list of candidates for membership one must obtain the vote (of which each full member has one a year) of three members, and the additional sponsorship of a person on the List of MCC Sponsors (which consists of members of all MCC Sub-Committees; MCC Committee; MCC Out-Match Representatives; and the Current, Past and Designate President). As the demand for membership always outstrips supply each year, there continues to be a substantial waiting list for Full Ordinary Membership, currently around 27 years.<sup id="cite_ref-HTJ_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HTJ-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are, however, ways to lessen the time it takes to become a full member: one may qualify as a Playing Member, or Out-Match Member (although this carries none of the privileges of membership, apart from being able to play for the club).<sup id="cite_ref-HTJ_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HTJ-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition, membership rules allow a certain number of people each year to be elected ahead of their turn; beneficiaries have included <a href="/wiki/Mick_Jagger" title="Mick Jagger">Mick Jagger</a> and in 2018 the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Minister">Prime Minister</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa, <i>now</i> Lady May</a>. MCC also grants limited honorary membership to people who have had distinguished cricket careers. The club recognises achievement in <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_cricket" title="Women's cricket">women's cricket</a> with, for example, <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Edwards" title="Charlotte Edwards">Charlotte Edwards</a> an inductee in the 2010s.<sup id="cite_ref-HTJ_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HTJ-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2005 the club was criticised (including by a few of its own members)<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for siding with the <a href="/wiki/England_and_Wales_Cricket_Board" title="England and Wales Cricket Board">England and Wales Cricket Board</a> (ECB) over the latter's decision to award television rights for <a href="/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Test cricket</a> to <a href="/wiki/British_Sky_Broadcasting" class="mw-redirect" title="British Sky Broadcasting">British Sky Broadcasting</a>, thus removing Test cricket from terrestrial television. The then Secretary and Chief Executive of MCC, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Knight" title="Roger Knight">Roger Knight</a>, represented the club on the board of the ECB and was party to this decision, prior to which Test cricket had been shown free to viewers on British television for more than half a century. </p><p>MCC decided to allow members and other spectators to continue to bring limited amounts of alcoholic drinks into the ground at all matches. The <a href="/wiki/International_Cricket_Council" title="International Cricket Council">ICC</a>, was attempting to implement a ban on this practice at all international matches around the world. MCC opted to write to the ICC on an annual basis to seek permission for members and spectators to import alcohol into <a href="/wiki/Lord%27s" title="Lord's">Lord's</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The Secretary & Chief Executive of the club has a place on the administrative board of the England and Wales Cricket Board and it is reported that <a href="/wiki/Keith_Bradshaw_(cricketer)" title="Keith Bradshaw (cricketer)">Keith Bradshaw</a> (Secretary & Chief Executive 2006–11) may have influenced the removal from office of <a href="/wiki/List_of_England_cricket_team_coaches" title="List of England cricket team coaches">England Coach</a> <a href="/wiki/Duncan_Fletcher" title="Duncan Fletcher">Duncan Fletcher</a> in April 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2012, MCC made headlines over a redevelopment plan, <i>Vision for Lord's</i>, that would have increased capacity but included construction of residential flats on some of the MCC site. Internal strife over the process of making a decision on the proposal led to the resignation of former Prime Minister Sir <a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a> from the Main Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-Tel_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tel-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2022, Guy Lavender, Secretary & Chief Executive of MCC, announced that the annual one-day <a href="/wiki/University_Match" class="mw-redirect" title="University Match">Oxford v Cambridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eton_v_Harrow" title="Eton v Harrow">Eton v Harrow</a> matches, both of which have been played at Lord's since the early 19th century, would no longer be held at the ground, so as to make room in the fixture list for the finals of competitions for all universities and schools in pursuit of greater diversity. Following opposition from a majority of its membership, the club decided that the matches would continue to be held at Lord's until at least 2023 to allow time for further consultation.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2023 it was announced that the fixtures would continue to be played at Lord's until at least 2027, following which there would be a review and a possible vote in 2028 on whether the matches should remain at Lord's.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the second test of the <a href="/wiki/2023_Ashes_series" title="2023 Ashes series">2023 Ashes series</a> at Lord's, the MCC apologised to <a href="/wiki/Cricket_Australia" title="Cricket Australia">Cricket Australia</a> and suspended three members for confronting <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia national cricket team</a> players walking through the members' area.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Video emerged of MCC members shouting abuse at Australian players after <a href="/wiki/Jonny_Bairstow" title="Jonny Bairstow">Jonny Bairstow</a> was <a href="/wiki/Stumped" title="Stumped">stumped</a> under controversial circumstances, despite the dismissal being fair and legal.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Matches">Matches</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Matches"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>MCC men's and women's teams play domestic matches throughout the spring and summer against teams from universities, schools, the Armed Forces and invitational teams such as the <a href="/wiki/Duchess_of_Rutland" title="Duchess of Rutland">Duchess of Rutland</a>'s XI.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The men's team tour internationally four times per year, and the women's team tour every other year. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coaching">Coaching</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Coaching"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MCC_Coaching_book.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/MCC_Coaching_book.jpg/125px-MCC_Coaching_book.jpg" decoding="async" width="125" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/MCC_Coaching_book.jpg/188px-MCC_Coaching_book.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/MCC_Coaching_book.jpg/250px-MCC_Coaching_book.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1206" data-file-height="2315" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/MCC_coaching_manual" class="mw-redirect" title="MCC coaching manual">MCC coaching manuals</a></figcaption></figure> <p>MCC has long had a deep involvement in coaching cricket. The club's head coach leads an extensive operation involving the running of an indoor-cricket school and a team of coaches in England and around the world. The club has traditionally produced a coaching manual, the <i><a href="/wiki/MCC_Cricket_Coaching_Book" class="mw-redirect" title="MCC Cricket Coaching Book">MCC Cricket Coaching Book</a></i>, a bible for cricket skills, and runs training programmes for young cricketers, including many at its Lord's Indoor Centre.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MCC continues to tour around England, playing matches against various state and private schools. This tradition has been followed since the 19th century. The club has other sporting interests with both a <a href="/wiki/Real_tennis" title="Real tennis">real tennis</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Squash_(sport)" title="Squash (sport)">squash</a> court on site at Lord's, and <a href="/wiki/Golf" title="Golf">golf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chess" title="Chess">chess</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bridge_(card_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bridge (card game)">bridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Backgammon" title="Backgammon">backgammon</a> societies. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Club_colours">Club colours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Club colours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From the beginning of the 20th century, MCC organised the <a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England cricket team</a> and, outside <a href="/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Test matches</a>, the touring England team officially played as "MCC" up to and including the 1976/77 tour of India. The <a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England touring team</a> wore the distinctive red and yellow stripes of the Marylebone Cricket Club as their colours for the last time on the <a href="/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_New_Zealand_in_1996%E2%80%9397" title="English cricket team in New Zealand in 1996–97">tour to New Zealand in 1996/97</a>. </p><p>The true provenance of MCC's colours is (and probably will remain) unsubstantiated, but its players often turned out sporting sky blue (<i>qv.</i> Eton or Cambridge) until well into the 19th century. The club eventually settled on the now well-recognised colours of scarlet and gold,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or in other parlance "egg and bacon".<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One purported theory is that MCC adopted these colours from <a href="/wiki/J%26W_Nicholson_%26_Co" title="J&W Nicholson & Co">J&W Nicholson & Co</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Gin" title="Gin">gin</a> after the company's chairman, MCC benefactor <a href="/wiki/William_Nicholson_(distiller)" title="William Nicholson (distiller)">William Nicholson</a> (1825–1909), secured the club's position at Lord's with a loan.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A more likely theory, which chimes with the club's origins, is that MCC borrowed its colours from the livery colours (racing) of a founding patron, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lennox,_4th_Duke_of_Richmond" title="Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond">the Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Goodwood_House" title="Goodwood House">Goodwood</a>-fame. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Image">Image</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Image"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Often viewed as too traditional (<i>ie.</i> "<a href="/wiki/The_Establishment" title="The Establishment">establishment</a>"), the club continues its modernising mission before the public and media, partly because it remains a citadel for tradition in a fast-changing landscape and partly because it has made a concerted move towards image-improvement.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "It would be overstating things to claim that the MCC has come full circle," admitted Andrew Miller at the beginning of October 2008, "but at a time of massive upheaval in the world game, the... NW8's colours cease to represent everything that is wrong with cricket, and instead have become a touchstone for those whose greatest fear is the erosion of the game's traditional values."<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_status">Legal status</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Legal status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before 2013 the MCC was a private members' club (meaning that it had the status of an <a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_associations_in_English_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Unincorporated associations in English law">unincorporated association</a>); this status had several limitations. Since an unincorporated association is not a legal entity, it could not own property (such as Lord's Cricket Ground itself) in its own name. It could not sue anybody, or indeed be sued (any legal action had to be taken against the Secretary & Chief Executive personally). In the event that a claim was successful, the committee and even the members themselves would have had to fund any financial shortfall. The club therefore called a Special General Meeting in June 2012 to consider petitioning The Queen in Council to incorporate the club by <a href="/wiki/Royal_Charter" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Charter">Royal Charter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Charter" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Charter">Royal Charter</a> removed many of the barriers and simplified the administration of the club. </p><p>Resulting from the petition, in December 2012 the club was granted a Royal Charter, two previous attempts having been unsuccessful.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result, the club became an incorporated association and is now able to hold assets, including the Lord's Cricket Ground, in its own name instead of via a custodian trustee. It also meant that the individual members, as the club's owners, no longer have a potential liability should the club ever get into serious financial trouble.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="MCC_Universities">MCC Universities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: MCC Universities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 2005 the MCC funded six university cricket academies known as the MCC Universities (MCCUs), which had previously been funded (from 2000) by the <a href="/wiki/England_and_Wales_Cricket_Board" title="England and Wales Cricket Board">England and Wales Cricket Board</a> (ECB). (Prior to 2010 they were known as the University Centres of Cricketing Excellence, or UCCEs.) These were based at <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club" title="Cambridge University Cricket Club">Cambridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardiff_MCC_University" title="Cardiff MCC University">Cardiff</a>, <a href="/wiki/Durham_MCC_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Durham MCC University">Durham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leeds/Bradford_MCC_University" title="Leeds/Bradford MCC University">Leeds/Bradford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loughborough_MCC_University" title="Loughborough MCC University">Loughborough</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Cricket_Club" title="Oxford University Cricket Club">Oxford</a>, and incorporated a total of thirteen universities.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 2012 all six MCCUs held first-class status. Each MCCU played a trio of matches against professional county sides at the beginning of each season, with first-class status conferred on the first two of these matches.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018, the MCC and ECB announced that the ECB would be resuming responsibility for funding the university centres from 2020 and would run a tender process for new cities to join the scheme. The change was also said to be likely to result in more <a href="/wiki/Twenty20" title="Twenty20">T20</a> cricket in the programme.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite the ECB having resumed funding, the university teams continue to use the MCC University names.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Officers_of_the_club">Officers of the club</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Officers of the club"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Presidents serve a twelve-month term and cannot normally serve two terms in succession. Notable exceptions occurred during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> and <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. In 1914, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Hawke,_7th_Baron_Hawke" title="Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke">Lord Hawke</a> was appointed president and was asked to remain in the post till the end of the Great War.<sup id="cite_ref-P&D_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-P&D-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result, Hawke was MCC President for five years from 1914 to 1918 inclusive and was succeeded in 1919 by the former Hampshire slow left-arm bowler <a href="/wiki/Henry_Forster,_1st_Baron_Forster" title="Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster">Henry Forster</a>, who shortly afterwards was raised to the peerage as <a href="/wiki/Lord_Forster" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Forster">Lord Forster</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout the war, Lord's was used for military purposes, including training and recreation. Problems frequently arose but, in <i>Wisden's</i> view, Hawke was "the greatest help in giving wise counsel towards their solution".<sup id="cite_ref-wistrib_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wistrib-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hawke's tenure was exceeded by that of <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Christopherson" title="Stanley Christopherson">Stanley Christopherson</a> who was appointed in 1939 and remained <i>in situ</i> for seven years until 1945 before being succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Forbes_Adam" title="Ronald Forbes Adam">General Sir Ronald Adam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BWC49_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BWC49-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his <i>Barclays World of Cricket</i> essay about the MCC Presidency, <a href="/wiki/E._W._Swanton" title="E. W. Swanton">E. W. Swanton</a> stated that "there is no pretence of democracy about it" commenting on how few were untitled up to the Second World War. As he observed, membership of the aristocracy was a more important factor than any cricketing prowess.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This observation did indeed reflect societal change, although <a href="/wiki/Prince_Philip" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince Philip">the Duke of Edinburgh</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Alec_Douglas-Home" title="Alec Douglas-Home">Earl of Home</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Cowdrey" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Cowdrey">Lord Cowdrey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sir_Tim_Rice" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Tim Rice">Sir Tim Rice</a> all became President of MCC in the latter half of the 20th century. In the 21st century there have been MCC Presidents who as players were wholly professional: <a href="/wiki/Tom_Graveney" title="Tom Graveney">Tom Graveney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derek_Underwood" title="Derek Underwood">Derek Underwood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mike_Gatting" title="Mike Gatting">Mike Gatting</a> and <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Fleming" title="Matthew Fleming">Matthew Fleming</a>. The 2018–19 President, Anthony Wreford, nominated <a href="/wiki/Kumar_Sangakkara" title="Kumar Sangakkara">Kumar Sangakkara</a> as his successor in May 2019; Sangakkara became MCC's first non-British President.<sup id="cite_ref-kumar-president_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kumar-president-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1214851843">.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;padding:5px;border:none;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .hidden-title{font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .hidden-content{text-align:left}@media all and (max-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{width:auto!important;clear:none!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">List of Presidents of the MCC<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;">Records from 1787 to 1820 were destroyed in the fire of 28 July 1825. <ul><li>1821: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Gordon,_10th_Marquess_of_Huntly" title="Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly">Lord Strathavon</a></li> <li>1822: <a href="/wiki/Henry_James_Lloyd" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry James Lloyd">Henry James Lloyd</a></li> <li>1823: <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Aislabie" title="Benjamin Aislabie">Benjamin Aislabie</a></li> <li>1824: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Thomas_Lane" title="Henry Thomas Lane">Henry Thomas Lane</a></li> <li>1825: <a href="/wiki/Charles_James_Barnett" title="Charles James Barnett">Charles James Barnett</a></li> <li>1826: <a href="/wiki/Lord_Frederick_Beauclerk" title="Lord Frederick Beauclerk">Lord Frederick Beauclerk</a></li> <li>1827: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Robert_Kingscote" title="Henry Robert Kingscote">Henry Robert Kingscote</a></li> <li>1828: <a href="/wiki/Algernon_Frederick_Greville" class="mw-redirect" title="Algernon Frederick Greville">Algernon Frederick Greville</a></li> <li>1829: <a href="/wiki/John_Barnard_(cricketer)" title="John Barnard (cricketer)">John Barnard</a></li> <li>1830: The Hon. <a href="/wiki/George_Ponsonby_(died_1863)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Ponsonby (died 1863)">George Ponsonby</a></li> <li>1831: <a href="/wiki/William_Deedes_(died_1862)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Deedes (died 1862)">William Deedes</a></li> <li>1832: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Howard_(died_1875)" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Howard (died 1875)">Henry Howard</a></li> <li>1833: <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Jenner" title="Herbert Jenner">Herbert Jenner</a></li> <li>1834: The Hon. <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Henry_Ashley" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Henry Ashley">Anthony Henry Ashley</a></li> <li>1835: <a href="/wiki/Lord_Charles_Russell" title="Lord Charles Russell">Lord Charles Russell</a></li> <li>1836: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Harbord,_4th_Baron_Suffield&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward Harbord, 4th Baron Suffield (page does not exist)">The Lord Suffield</a></li> <li>1837: <a href="/wiki/James_Grimston,_2nd_Earl_of_Verulam" title="James Grimston, 2nd Earl of Verulam">Viscount Grimston</a> (also President in 1867)</li> <li>1838: <a href="/wiki/Brownlow_Cecil,_2nd_Marquess_of_Exeter" title="Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter">The Marquess of Exeter</a></li> <li>1839: <a href="/wiki/George_Stanhope,_6th_Earl_of_Chesterfield" title="George Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield">The Earl of Chesterfield</a></li> <li>1840: <a href="/wiki/James_Grimston,_1st_Earl_of_Verulam" title="James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam">The Earl of Verulam</a></li> <li>1841: <a href="/wiki/William_Craven,_2nd_Earl_of_Craven" title="William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven">The Earl of Craven</a></li> <li>1842: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Gordon-Lennox,_6th_Duke_of_Richmond" title="Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond">Earl of March</a></li> <li>1843: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Reynolds-Moreton,_2nd_Earl_of_Ducie" title="Henry Reynolds-Moreton, 2nd Earl of Ducie">The Earl of Ducie</a></li> <li>1844: <a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Bayley,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir John Bayley, 2nd Baronet">Sir John Bayley</a></li> <li>1845: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Chamberlayne_(cricketer)" title="Thomas Chamberlayne (cricketer)">Thomas Chamberlayne</a></li> <li>1846: <a href="/wiki/Edward_Turnour,_4th_Earl_Winterton" title="Edward Turnour, 4th Earl Winterton">The Earl Winterton</a></li> <li>1847: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lyon-Bowes,_12th_Earl_of_Strathmore_and_Kinghorne" title="Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne">The Earl of Strathmore</a></li> <li>1848: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Coke,_2nd_Earl_of_Leicester" title="Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester">The Earl of Leicester</a></li> <li>1849: <a href="/wiki/John_Bligh,_6th_Earl_of_Darnley" title="John Bligh, 6th Earl of Darnley">The Earl of Darnley</a></li> <li>1850: <a href="/wiki/Heneage_Finch,_6th_Earl_of_Aylesford" title="Heneage Finch, 6th Earl of Aylesford">Lord Guernsey</a></li> <li>1851: <a href="/wiki/George_Grey,_7th_Earl_of_Stamford" title="George Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford">The Earl of Stamford</a></li> <li>1852: <a href="/wiki/George_Hay-Drummond,_12th_Earl_of_Kinnoull" title="George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull">Viscount Dupplin</a></li> <li>1853: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Somerset,_8th_Duke_of_Beaufort" title="Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort">Marquess of Worcester</a> (also President in 1877)</li> <li>1854: <a href="/wiki/George_Vane-Tempest,_5th_Marquess_of_Londonderry" title="George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry">The Earl Vane</a></li> <li>1855: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Paget,_3rd_Marquess_of_Anglesey" title="Henry Paget, 3rd Marquess of Anglesey">Earl of Uxbridge</a></li> <li>1856: <a href="/wiki/William_Wentworth-Fitzwilliam,_6th_Earl_Fitzwilliam" title="William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam">Viscount Milton</a></li> <li>1857: <a href="/wiki/Sir_Frederick_Hervey-Bathurst,_3rd_Baronet" title="Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, 3rd Baronet">Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst</a></li> <li>1858: <a href="/wiki/Alan_Stewart,_10th_Earl_of_Galloway" title="Alan Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway">Lord Garlies</a></li> <li>1859: <a href="/wiki/George_Coventry,_9th_Earl_of_Coventry" title="George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry">The Earl of Coventry</a></li> <li>1860: <a href="/wiki/Edward_Bootle-Wilbraham,_1st_Earl_of_Lathom" title="Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom">The Lord Skelmersdale</a></li> <li>1861: <a href="/wiki/John_Spencer,_5th_Earl_Spencer" title="John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer">The Earl Spencer</a></li> <li>1862: <a href="/wiki/William_Molyneux,_4th_Earl_of_Sefton" title="William Molyneux, 4th Earl of Sefton">The Earl of Sefton</a></li> <li>1863: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Harbord,_5th_Baron_Suffield" title="Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield">The Lord Suffield</a></li> <li>1864: <a href="/wiki/William_Ward,_1st_Earl_of_Dudley" title="William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley">The Earl of Dudley</a></li> <li>1865: <a href="/wiki/Robert_Grosvenor,_1st_Baron_Ebury" title="Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury">The Lord Ebury</a></li> <li>1866: <a href="/wiki/John_Montagu,_7th_Earl_of_Sandwich" title="John Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich">The Earl of Sandwich</a></li> <li>1867: <a href="/wiki/James_Grimston,_2nd_Earl_of_Verulam" title="James Grimston, 2nd Earl of Verulam">The Earl of Verulam</a> (also President in 1837)</li> <li>1868: <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Methuen,_2nd_Baron_Methuen" title="Frederick Methuen, 2nd Baron Methuen">The Lord Methuen</a></li> <li>1869: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Petty-Fitzmaurice,_5th_Marquess_of_Lansdowne" title="Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne">The Marquess of Lansdowne</a></li> <li>1870: <a href="/wiki/John_Henry_Scourfield" class="mw-redirect" title="John Henry Scourfield">John Henry Scourfield</a></li> <li>1871: <a href="/wiki/Edward_Villiers,_5th_Earl_of_Clarendon" title="Edward Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon">The Earl of Clarendon</a></li> <li>1872: <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Dawnay,_8th_Viscount_Downe" title="Hugh Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe">The Viscount Downe</a></li> <li>1873: <a href="/wiki/George_Cadogan,_5th_Earl_Cadogan" title="George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan">Viscount Chelsea</a></li> <li>1874: <a href="/wiki/James_Hamilton,_2nd_Duke_of_Abercorn" title="James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn">Marquess of Hamilton</a></li> <li>1875: <a href="/wiki/Sir_Charles_Legard,_11th_Baronet" title="Sir Charles Legard, 11th Baronet">Sir Charles Legard</a></li> <li>1876: <a href="/wiki/William_Denison,_1st_Earl_of_Londesborough" title="William Denison, 1st Earl of Londesborough">The Lord Londesborough</a></li> <li>1877: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Somerset,_8th_Duke_of_Beaufort" title="Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort">The Duke of Beaufort</a> (also President in 1853)</li> <li>1878: <a href="/wiki/Francis_Berkeley,_2nd_Baron_FitzHardinge" title="Francis Berkeley, 2nd Baron FitzHardinge">The Lord Fitzhardinge</a></li> <li>1879: <a href="/wiki/William_Nicholson_(distiller)" title="William Nicholson (distiller)">William Nicholson</a></li> <li>1880: <a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Hart_Dyke" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir William Hart Dyke">Sir William Hart Dyke</a></li> <li>1881: <a href="/wiki/Lord_George_Hamilton" title="Lord George Hamilton">Lord George Hamilton</a></li> <li>1882: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Strutt,_2nd_Baron_Belper" title="Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper">The Lord Belper</a></li> <li>1883: The Hon. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Grimston_(cricketer)" title="Robert Grimston (cricketer)">Robert Grimston</a></li> <li>1884: <a href="/wiki/Edward_Turnour,_5th_Earl_Winterton" title="Edward Turnour, 5th Earl Winterton">The Earl Winterton</a></li> <li>1885: <a href="/wiki/Beilby_Lawley,_3rd_Baron_Wenlock" title="Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock">The Lord Wenlock</a></li> <li>1886: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lyttelton,_8th_Viscount_Cobham" title="Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham">The Lord Lyttelton</a></li> <li>1887: The Hon. <a href="/wiki/Edward_Chandos_Leigh" title="Edward Chandos Leigh">Edward Chandos Leigh</a></li> <li>1888: <a href="/wiki/William_Montagu_Douglas_Scott,_6th_Duke_of_Buccleuch" title="William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch">The Duke of Buccleuch</a></li> <li>1889: <a href="/wiki/Henry_James,_1st_Baron_James_of_Hereford" title="Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford">Sir Henry James</a></li> <li>1890: <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby,_1st_Earl_of_Ancaster" title="Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster">The Lord Willoughby de Eresby</a></li> <li>1891: <a href="/wiki/Vyell_Edward_Walker" class="mw-redirect" title="Vyell Edward Walker">Vyell Edward Walker</a></li> <li>1892: <a href="/wiki/William_Evelyn_Denison" title="William Evelyn Denison">William Evelyn Denison</a></li> <li>1893: <a href="/wiki/William_Legge,_6th_Earl_of_Dartmouth" title="William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth">The Earl of Dartmouth</a></li> <li>1894: <a href="/wiki/Victor_Child_Villiers,_7th_Earl_of_Jersey" title="Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey">The Earl of Jersey</a></li> <li>1895: <a href="/wiki/George_Harris,_4th_Baron_Harris" title="George Harris, 4th Baron Harris">The Lord Harris</a></li> <li>1896: <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Herbert,_14th_Earl_of_Pembroke" title="Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke">The Earl of Pembroke</a></li> <li>1897: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Francis_Anson,_3rd_Earl_of_Lichfield&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Francis Anson, 3rd Earl of Lichfield (page does not exist)">The Earl of Lichfield</a></li> <li>1898: The Hon. <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Lyttelton" title="Alfred Lyttelton">Alfred Lyttelton</a></li> <li>1899: <a href="/wiki/Sir_Archibald_Levin_Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Archibald Levin Smith">Sir Archibald Levin Smith</a></li> <li>1900: The Hon. <a href="/wiki/Ivo_Bligh" class="mw-redirect" title="Ivo Bligh">Ivo Bligh</a></li> <li>1901: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Curzon,_4th_Earl_Howe" title="Richard Curzon, 4th Earl Howe">The Earl Howe</a></li> <li>1902: <a href="/wiki/Allan_Gibson_Steel" class="mw-redirect" title="Allan Gibson Steel">Allan Gibson Steel</a></li> <li>1903: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Webster,_1st_Viscount_Alverstone" title="Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone">The Lord Alverstone</a></li> <li>1904: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Manners,_8th_Duke_of_Rutland" title="Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland">Marquess of Granby</a></li> <li>1905: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Ernest_Green" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Ernest Green">Charles Ernest Green</a></li> <li>1906: <a href="/wiki/Walter_Hume_Long" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Hume Long">Walter Hume Long</a></li> <li>1907: <a href="/wiki/Robert_Reid,_1st_Earl_Loreburn" title="Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn">The Lord Loreburn</a></li> <li>1908: <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Campbell,_3rd_Earl_Cawdor" title="Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor">The Earl Cawdor</a></li> <li>1909: <a href="/wiki/Edwyn_Scudamore-Stanhope,_10th_Earl_of_Chesterfield" title="Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield">The Earl of Chesterfield</a></li> <li>1910: <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Francis_Henry_Denison,_2nd_Earl_of_Londesborough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Francis Henry Denison, 2nd Earl of Londesborough (page does not exist)">The Earl of Londesborough</a></li> <li>1911: <a href="/wiki/William_Grenfell,_1st_Baron_Desborough" title="William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough">The Lord Desborough</a></li> <li>1912: <a href="/wiki/Victor_Cavendish,_9th_Duke_of_Devonshire" title="Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire">The Duke of Devonshire</a></li> <li>1913: <a href="/wiki/John_Montagu_Douglas_Scott,_7th_Duke_of_Buccleuch" title="John Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch">Earl of Dalkeith</a></li> <li>1914: <a href="/wiki/Martin_Hawke,_7th_Baron_Hawke" title="Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke">The Lord Hawke</a></li> <li>1919: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Forster,_1st_Baron_Forster" title="Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster">The Lord Forster</a></li> <li>1920: <a href="/wiki/John_Egerton,_4th_Earl_of_Ellesmere" title="John Egerton, 4th Earl of Ellesmere">The Earl of Ellesmere</a></li> <li>1921: The Hon. <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Jackson_(cricketer)" title="Stanley Jackson (cricketer)">Stanley Jackson</a></li> <li>1922: <a href="/wiki/Frederic_Thesiger,_1st_Viscount_Chelmsford" title="Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford">The Viscount Chelmsford</a></li> <li>1923: <a href="/wiki/James_Lowther,_1st_Viscount_Ullswater" title="James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater">The Viscount Ullswater</a></li> <li>1924: <a href="/wiki/Rowland_Prothero,_1st_Baron_Ernle" title="Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle">The Lord Ernle</a></li> <li>1925: Admiral of the Fleet <a href="/wiki/Sir_John_de_Robeck" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir John de Robeck">Sir John de Robeck</a></li> <li>1926: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Brand,_3rd_Viscount_Hampden" title="Thomas Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden">The Viscount Hampden</a></li> <li>1927: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Wyndham,_3rd_Baron_Leconfield" title="Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield">The Lord Leconfield</a></li> <li>1928: <a href="/wiki/George_Bingham,_5th_Earl_of_Lucan" title="George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan">The Earl of Lucan</a></li> <li>1929: Field Marshal <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Plumer,_1st_Viscount_Plumer" title="Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer">the Lord Plumer</a></li> <li>1930: <a href="/wiki/Sir_Kynaston_Studd" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Kynaston Studd">Sir Kynaston Studd</a></li> <li>1931: <a href="/wiki/William_Bridgeman,_1st_Viscount_Bridgeman" title="William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman">The Viscount Bridgeman</a></li> <li>1932: <a href="/wiki/William_Legge,_7th_Earl_of_Dartmouth" title="William Legge, 7th Earl of Dartmouth">Viscount Lewisham</a></li> <li>1933: <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hogg,_1st_Viscount_Hailsham" title="Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham">The Viscount Hailsham</a></li> <li>1934: <a href="/wiki/Rowland_Baring,_2nd_Earl_of_Cromer" title="Rowland Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer">The Earl of Cromer</a></li> <li>1935: <a href="/wiki/John_Lyttelton,_9th_Viscount_Cobham" title="John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham">The Viscount Cobham</a></li> <li>1936: <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Somers-Cocks,_6th_Baron_Somers" title="Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers">The Lord Somers</a></li> <li>1937: The Hon. <a href="/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor,_1st_Baron_Astor_of_Hever" title="John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever">John Jacob Astor</a></li> <li>1938: <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Baldwin" title="Stanley Baldwin">The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley</a></li> <li>1939: <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Christopherson" title="Stanley Christopherson">Stanley Christopherson</a></li> <li>1946: General <a href="/wiki/Sir_Ronald_Adam" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Ronald Adam">Sir Ronald Adam</a></li> <li>1947: <a href="/wiki/Wykeham_Cornwallis,_2nd_Baron_Cornwallis" title="Wykeham Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis">The Lord Cornwallis</a></li> <li>1948: <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hore-Ruthven,_1st_Earl_of_Gowrie" title="Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie">The Earl of Gowrie</a></li> <li>1949: <a href="/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh" title="Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh">The Duke of Edinburgh</a> (also President in 1974)</li> <li>1950: <a href="/wiki/Sir_Pelham_Warner" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Pelham Warner">Sir Pelham Warner</a></li> <li>1951: <a href="/wiki/William_Findlay_(cricketer)" title="William Findlay (cricketer)">William Findlay</a></li> <li>1952: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Somerset,_10th_Duke_of_Beaufort" title="Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort">The Duke of Beaufort</a></li> <li>1953: <a href="/wiki/Harry_Primrose,_6th_Earl_of_Rosebery" title="Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery">The Earl of Rosebery</a></li> <li>1954: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lyttelton,_10th_Viscount_Cobham" title="Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham">The Viscount Cobham</a></li> <li>1955: Field Marshal <a href="/wiki/Harold_Alexander,_1st_Earl_Alexander_of_Tunis" title="Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis">the Earl Alexander of Tunis</a></li> <li>1956: <a href="/wiki/Walter_Monckton" title="Walter Monckton">Walter Monckton</a></li> <li>1957: <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Fitzalan-Howard,_16th_Duke_of_Norfolk" title="Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk">The Duke of Norfolk</a></li> <li>1958: Marshal of the Royal Air Force <a href="/wiki/Charles_Portal,_1st_Viscount_Portal_of_Hungerford" title="Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford">the Viscount Portal of Hungerford</a></li> <li>1959: <a href="/wiki/Harry_Surtees_Altham" class="mw-redirect" title="Harry Surtees Altham">Harry Surtees Altham</a></li> <li>1960: <a href="/wiki/Sir_Hubert_Ashton" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Hubert Ashton">Sir Hubert Ashton</a></li> <li>1961: <a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Worsley,_4th_Baronet" title="Sir William Worsley, 4th Baronet">Sir William Worsley</a></li> <li>1962: <a href="/wiki/Terence_Nugent,_1st_Baron_Nugent" title="Terence Nugent, 1st Baron Nugent">The Lord Nugent</a></li> <li>1963: <a href="/wiki/George_Oswald_Browning_Allen" class="mw-redirect" title="George Oswald Browning Allen">George Oswald Browning Allen</a></li> <li>1964: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Haynes_Twining" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Haynes Twining">Richard Haynes Twining</a></li> <li>1965: Lieutenant General <a href="/wiki/Sir_Oliver_Leese" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Oliver Leese">Sir Oliver Leese</a></li> <li>1966: <a href="/wiki/Sir_Alec_Douglas-Home" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Alec Douglas-Home">Sir Alec Douglas-Home</a></li> <li>1967: <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Edward_Robert_Gilligan" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur Edward Robert Gilligan">Arthur Edward Robert Gilligan</a></li> <li>1968: <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Aird" class="mw-redirect" title="Ronald Aird">Ronald Aird</a></li> <li>1969: <a href="/wiki/Maurice_James_Carrick_Allom" class="mw-redirect" title="Maurice James Carrick Allom">Maurice James Carrick Allom</a></li> <li>1970: <a href="/wiki/Sir_Cyril_Hawker" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Cyril Hawker">Sir Cyril Hawker</a></li> <li>1971: <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Richard_Brown" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Richard Brown">Frederick Richard Brown</a></li> <li>1972: <a href="/wiki/Aidan_Crawley" title="Aidan Crawley">Aidan Crawley</a></li> <li>1973: <a href="/wiki/Harold_Caccia" title="Harold Caccia">The Lord Caccia</a></li> <li>1974: <a href="/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh" title="Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh">The Duke of Edinburgh</a> (also President in 1949)</li> <li>1975: <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Gerard_Alexander_Paris" class="mw-redirect" title="Cecil Gerard Alexander Paris">Cecil Gerard Alexander Paris</a></li> <li>1976: <a href="/wiki/William_Hugh_Webster" class="mw-redirect" title="William Hugh Webster">William Hugh Webster</a></li> <li>1977: <a href="/wiki/David_Graham_Clark" class="mw-redirect" title="David Graham Clark">David Graham Clark</a></li> <li>1978: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Henry_Palmer" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Henry Palmer">Charles Henry Palmer</a></li> <li>1979: <a href="/wiki/Stewart_Cathie_Griffith" class="mw-redirect" title="Stewart Cathie Griffith">Stewart Cathie Griffith</a></li> <li>1980: <a href="/wiki/Peter_Barker_Howard_May" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Barker Howard May">Peter Barker Howard May</a></li> <li>1981: <a href="/wiki/George_Hubert_Graham_Doggart" class="mw-redirect" title="George Hubert Graham Doggart">George Hubert Graham Doggart</a></li> <li>1982: <a href="/wiki/Sir_Anthony_Tuke" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Anthony Tuke">Sir Anthony Tuke</a></li> <li>1983: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Henry_Alexander_Dibbs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arthur Henry Alexander Dibbs (page does not exist)">Arthur Henry Alexander Dibbs</a></li> <li>1984: <a href="/wiki/Francis_George_Mann" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis George Mann">Francis George Mann</a></li> <li>1985: <a href="/wiki/Jack_Gale_Wilmot_Davies" class="mw-redirect" title="Jack Gale Wilmot Davies">Jack Gale Wilmot Davies</a></li> <li>1986: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Colin_Cowdrey" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Colin Cowdrey">Michael Colin Cowdrey</a></li> <li>1987: <a href="/wiki/John_James_Warr" class="mw-redirect" title="John James Warr">John James Warr</a></li> <li>1988: Field Marshal <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Bramall" title="Edwin Bramall">the Lord Bramall</a></li> <li>1989: <a href="/wiki/Sir_Denys_Roberts" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Denys Roberts">Sir Denys Roberts</a></li> <li>1990: <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Griffiths,_Baron_Griffiths" title="Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths">The Lord Griffiths</a></li> <li>1991: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Edward_Lovelace_Melluish" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Edward Lovelace Melluish">Michael Edward Lovelace Melluish</a></li> <li>1992: <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Raoul_Whitehall_Silk" class="mw-redirect" title="Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk">Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk</a></li> <li>1994: <a href="/wiki/Sir_Oliver_Popplewell" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Oliver Popplewell">Sir Oliver Popplewell</a></li> <li>1996: <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Colin_David_Ingleby-Mackenzie" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Colin David Ingleby-Mackenzie">Alexander Colin David Ingleby-Mackenzie</a></li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Robert_Lewis" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Robert Lewis">Anthony Robert Lewis</a></li> <li>2001: <a href="/wiki/Robert_Alexander,_Baron_Alexander_of_Weedon" title="Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon">The Lord Alexander of Weedon</a></li> <li>2002: <a href="/wiki/Edward_Ralph_Dexter" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Ralph Dexter">Edward Ralph Dexter</a></li> <li>2003: <a href="/wiki/Sir_Timothy_Rice" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Timothy Rice">Sir Timothy Rice</a></li> <li>2004: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Anthony_Fry" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Anthony Fry">Charles Anthony Fry</a></li> <li>2005: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_William_Graveney" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas William Graveney">Thomas William Graveney</a></li> <li>2006: <a href="/wiki/Robin_Geoffrey_Marlar" class="mw-redirect" title="Robin Geoffrey Marlar">Robin Geoffrey Marlar</a></li> <li>2007: <a href="/wiki/Douglas_John_Insole" class="mw-redirect" title="Douglas John Insole">Douglas John Insole</a></li> <li>2008: <a href="/wiki/John_Michael_Brearley" class="mw-redirect" title="John Michael Brearley">John Michael Brearley</a></li> <li>2009: <a href="/wiki/Derek_Leslie_Underwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Derek Leslie Underwood">Derek Leslie Underwood</a></li> <li>2010: <a href="/wiki/John_Robert_Troutbeck_Barclay" class="mw-redirect" title="John Robert Troutbeck Barclay">John Robert Troutbeck Barclay</a></li> <li>2011: <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Dennis_Alexander_Martin-Jenkins" class="mw-redirect" title="Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins">Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins</a></li> <li>2012: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Phillip_Hodson" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Phillip Hodson">Richard Phillip Hodson</a></li> <li>2013: <a href="/wiki/Mike_Grenville_Griffith" class="mw-redirect" title="Mike Grenville Griffith">Mike Grenville Griffith</a></li> <li>2014: <a href="/wiki/Michael_William_Gatting" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael William Gatting">Michael William Gatting</a></li> <li>2015: <a href="/wiki/Frederick_David_Morgan" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick David Morgan">Frederick David Morgan</a></li> <li>2016: <a href="/wiki/Roger_David_Verdon_Knight" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger David Verdon Knight">Roger David Verdon Knight</a></li> <li>2017: <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Valentine_Fleming" class="mw-redirect" title="Matthew Valentine Fleming">Matthew Valentine Fleming</a></li> <li>2018: <a href="/wiki/Ian_MacLaurin,_Baron_MacLaurin_of_Knebworth" title="Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth">The Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth</a></li> <li>2019: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_William_Wreford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anthony William Wreford (page does not exist)">Anthony William Wreford</a></li> <li>2020: <a href="/wiki/Kumar_Chokshanada_Sangakkara" class="mw-redirect" title="Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara">Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara</a></li> <li>2021: <a href="/wiki/Clare_Joanne_Connor" class="mw-redirect" title="Clare Joanne Connor">Clare Joanne Connor</a></li> <li>2022: <a href="/wiki/Stephen_John_Fry" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen John Fry">Stephen John Fry</a></li> <li>2023: <a href="/wiki/Mark_Charles_Jefford_Nicholas" class="mw-redirect" title="Mark Charles Jefford Nicholas">Mark Charles Jefford Nicholas</a></li></ul></div> </div></div> <p>Each President is required to nominate their successor at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) which takes place during his/her term of office.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The club chairman and the treasurer serve a three-year term. Both are appointed by the committee (but subject to approval of the voting members). Both can serve terms in succession. The secretary and chief executive (a joint role) is the senior employee of the club and is appointed solely by the MCC committee. </p><p>The committee consists of the above officers plus the chairmen of any other committees that may exist at the time of any meeting plus twelve elected members. Elected committee members are appointed for a three-year term. An elected committee member cannot be re-elected upon retirement unless there is a gap of at least one year between terms of office. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Secretaries">Secretaries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Secretaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>MCC first engaged a Club Secretary in 1822.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwanton198654_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwanton198654-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The title was changed in 2000, during <a href="/wiki/Roger_Knight" title="Roger Knight">Roger Knight</a>'s tenure, to Secretary and Chief Executive. Holders of office have been: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Aislabie" title="Benjamin Aislabie">Benjamin Aislabie</a> (1822–1842)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwanton198654_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwanton198654-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Kynaston" title="Roger Kynaston">Roger Kynaston</a> (1842–1858)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwanton198654_59-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwanton198654-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Baillie" title="Alfred Baillie">Alfred Baillie</a> (1858–1863)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwanton198654_59-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwanton198654-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Allan_Fitzgerald" title="Robert Allan Fitzgerald">Robert Allan Fitzgerald</a> (1863–1876)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwanton198654_59-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwanton198654-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Perkins_(cricketer)" title="Henry Perkins (cricketer)">Henry Perkins</a> (1876–1898)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwanton198654_59-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwanton198654-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Lacey" title="Francis Lacey">Francis Lacey</a> (1898–1926)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwanton198654_59-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwanton198654-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Findlay_(cricketer)" title="William Findlay (cricketer)">William Findlay</a> (1926–1936)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwanton198654_59-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwanton198654-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rowan_Rait_Kerr" title="Rowan Rait Kerr">Rowan Rait Kerr</a> (1936–1952)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwanton198654_59-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwanton198654-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronnie_Aird" title="Ronnie Aird">Ronnie Aird</a> (1952–1962)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwanton198654_59-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwanton198654-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Griffith" title="Billy Griffith">Billy Griffith</a> (1962–1974)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwanton198654_59-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwanton198654-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._A._Bailey" title="J. A. Bailey">J. A. Bailey</a> (1974–1987)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwanton198654_59-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwanton198654-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Robin_Stephenson" title="John Robin Stephenson">John Robin Stephenson</a> (1987–1994)<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Knight" title="Roger Knight">Roger Knight</a> (1994–2006)<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Bradshaw_(cricketer)" title="Keith Bradshaw (cricketer)">Keith Bradshaw</a> (2006–2011)<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derek_Brewer_(cricket_administrator)" title="Derek Brewer (cricket administrator)">Derek Brewer</a> (2011–2017)<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guy_Lavender&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guy Lavender (page does not exist)">Guy Lavender</a> (2017–)<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marylebone_Cricket_Club&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 October</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=www.lords.org%2Flords%2Findoor-cricket-centre&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lords.org%2Flords%2Findoor-cricket-centre%2Findoor-cricket-centre&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarylebone+Cricket+Club" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rule 1 of the MCC club rules (dated 1 July 2013) states, "The club shall be called the Marylebone Cricket Club and its colours shall be Scarlet and Gold".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Para 7 of the Royal charter states, "The colours of the club shall be scarlet and gold"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lords.org/mcc/the-club/about-the-mcc">"The Colours of MCC"</a>. <i>MCC</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200411214442/https://www.lords.org/mcc/the-club/about-the-mcc">Archived</a> from the original on 11 April 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Although no written proof has yet been found there is a strong family tradition that the adoption of the red and gold was MCC's personal thank you to William Nicholson for his services to the club – sport's first corporate sponsorship deal perhaps!</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=About+MCC&rft.atitle=The+colours+of+MCC&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.aufirst=Glenys&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lords.org%2Fmcc%2Fabout-mcc%2Fthe-colours-of-mcc%2C1045%2CAR.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarylebone+Cricket+Club" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lords.org/lords/news-stories/stephen-fry-to-become-next-president-of-mcc">"www.lords.org"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220707194815/https://www.lords.org/lords/news-stories/stephen-fry-to-become-next-president-of-mcc">Archived</a> from the original on 7 July 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Club">Middlesex County Cricket Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Secretaries_of_the_Marylebone_Cricket_Club" title="Category:Secretaries of the Marylebone Cricket Club">Secretaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spirit_of_Cricket" class="mw-redirect" title="Spirit of Cricket">Spirit of Cricket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MCC_Universities" class="mw-redirect" title="MCC Universities">University Centres of Cricketing Excellence</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="English_cricket_teams_in_the_18th_century" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link 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Club">Bourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brentford_Cricket_Club" title="Brentford Cricket Club">Brentford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brighton_Cricket_Club" title="Brighton Cricket Club">Brighton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bromley_Cricket_Club" title="Bromley Cricket Club">Bromley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caterham_Cricket_Club" title="Caterham Cricket Club">Caterham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chatham_Cricket_Club" title="Chatham Cricket Club">Chatham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chertsey_Cricket_Club" title="Chertsey Cricket Club">Chertsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chislehurst_Cricket_Club" title="Chislehurst Cricket Club">Chislehurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coulsdon_Cricket_Club" title="Coulsdon Cricket Club">Coulsdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croydon_Cricket_Club" title="Croydon Cricket Club">Croydon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dartford_Cricket_Club" title="Dartford Cricket Club">Dartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_and_West_Kent_cricket_teams" title="East and West Kent cricket teams">East Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epsom_Cricket_Club" title="Epsom Cricket Club">Epsom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadlow_Cricket_Club" title="Hadlow Cricket Club">Hadlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hambledon_Club" title="Hambledon Club">Hambledon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampton_Cricket_Club" title="Hampton Cricket Club">Hampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homerton_Cricket_Club" title="Homerton Cricket Club">Homerton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hornchurch_Cricket_Club" title="Hornchurch Cricket Club">Hornchurch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingston_Cricket_Club" title="Kingston Cricket Club">Kingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lingfield_Cricket_Club" title="Lingfield Cricket Club">Lingfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Cricket_Club" title="London Cricket Club">London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitcham_Cricket_Club" title="Mitcham Cricket Club">Mitcham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montpelier_Cricket_Club" title="Montpelier Cricket Club">Montpelier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Cricket_Club_(18th_century)" title="Richmond Cricket Club (18th century)">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slindon_Cricket_Club" title="Slindon Cricket Club">Slindon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunbury_Cricket_Club" title="Sunbury Cricket Club">Sunbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_and_West_Kent_cricket_teams" title="East and West Kent cricket teams">West Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Conduit_Club" title="White Conduit Club">White Conduit Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woolwich_Cricket_Club" title="Woolwich Cricket Club">Woolwich</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Cricket_in_England_and_Wales" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist 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style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Cricket in <a href="/wiki/Cricket_in_England" title="Cricket in England">England</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cricket_in_Wales" title="Cricket in Wales">Wales</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/England_and_Wales_Cricket_Board" title="England and Wales Cricket Board">England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">National Teams</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England cricket team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wales_national_cricket_team" title="Wales national cricket team">Wales cricket team (former & proposed)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/England_women%27s_cricket_team" title="England women's cricket team">England women's cricket team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/England_Lions_cricket_team" title="England Lions cricket team">England Lions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/England_under-19_cricket_team" title="England under-19 cricket team">England U-19</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/England_women%27s_under-19_cricket_team" title="England women's under-19 cricket team">England women U-19</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Associations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Professional_Cricketers%27_Association" title="Professional Cricketers' Association">Professional Cricketers' Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Association_of_Cricket_Officials" title="Association of Cricket Officials">Association of Cricket Officials</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/County_cricket" title="County cricket">Men's First-Class Counties</a> (18)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Derbyshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Derbyshire County Cricket Club">Derbyshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durham_County_Cricket_Club" title="Durham County Cricket Club">Durham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essex_County_Cricket_Club" title="Essex County Cricket Club">Essex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glamorgan_County_Cricket_Club" title="Glamorgan County Cricket Club">Glamorgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Gloucestershire County Cricket Club">Gloucestershire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Hampshire County Cricket Club">Hampshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kent_County_Cricket_Club" title="Kent County Cricket Club">Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancashire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Lancashire County Cricket Club">Lancashire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leicestershire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Leicestershire County Cricket Club">Leicestershire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlesex_County_Cricket_Club" title="Middlesex County Cricket Club">Middlesex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Northamptonshire County Cricket Club">Northamptonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club">Nottinghamshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club" title="Somerset County Cricket Club">Somerset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surrey_County_Cricket_Club" title="Surrey County Cricket Club">Surrey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sussex_County_Cricket_Club" title="Sussex County Cricket Club">Sussex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warwickshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Warwickshire County Cricket Club">Warwickshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worcestershire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Worcestershire County Cricket Club">Worcestershire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Yorkshire County Cricket Club">Yorkshire</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Women's Regional Teams (8)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Central_Sparks" title="Central Sparks">Central Sparks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Diamonds" title="Northern Diamonds">Northern Diamonds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_West_Thunder" title="North West Thunder">North West Thunder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_East_Stars" title="South East Stars">South East Stars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Vipers" title="Southern Vipers">Southern Vipers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunrisers_(women%27s_cricket)" title="Sunrisers (women's cricket)">Sunrisers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Blaze_(women%27s_cricket)" title="The Blaze (women's cricket)">The Blaze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Storm" title="Western Storm">Western Storm</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">The Hundred Teams (8)<br />(Men and Women)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Phoenix" title="Birmingham Phoenix">Birmingham Phoenix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Spirit" title="London Spirit">London Spirit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Originals" title="Manchester Originals">Manchester Originals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Superchargers" title="Northern Superchargers">Northern Superchargers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oval_Invincibles" title="Oval Invincibles">Oval Invincibles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Brave" title="Southern Brave">Southern Brave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trent_Rockets" title="Trent Rockets">Trent Rockets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welsh_Fire" title="Welsh Fire">Welsh Fire</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/National_Counties_of_English_and_Welsh_cricket" title="National Counties of English and Welsh cricket">Men's National Counties</a> (21)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Bedfordshire County Cricket Club">Bedfordshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berkshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Berkshire County Cricket Club">Berkshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buckinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club">Buckinghamshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club">Cambridgeshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Cheshire County Cricket Club">Cheshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornwall_County_Cricket_Club" title="Cornwall County Cricket Club">Cornwall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumbria_County_Cricket_Club" title="Cumbria County Cricket Club">Cumbria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devon_County_Cricket_Club" title="Devon County Cricket Club">Devon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorset_County_Cricket_Club" title="Dorset County Cricket Club">Dorset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herefordshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Herefordshire County Cricket Club">Herefordshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hertfordshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Hertfordshire County Cricket Club">Hertfordshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huntingdonshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Huntingdonshire County Cricket Club">Huntingdonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Lincolnshire County Cricket Club">Lincolnshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norfolk_County_Cricket_Club" title="Norfolk County Cricket Club">Norfolk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northumberland_County_Cricket_Club" title="Northumberland County Cricket Club">Northumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Oxfordshire County Cricket Club">Oxfordshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Shropshire County Cricket Club">Shropshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staffordshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Staffordshire County Cricket Club">Staffordshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suffolk_County_Cricket_Club" title="Suffolk County Cricket Club">Suffolk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wales_National_County_Cricket_Club" title="Wales National County Cricket Club">Wales National County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wiltshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Wiltshire County Cricket Club">Wiltshire</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Women's Counties (34)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Berkshire_Women_cricket_team" title="Berkshire Women cricket team">Berkshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buckinghamshire_Women_cricket_team" title="Buckinghamshire Women cricket team">Buckinghamshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire_Women_cricket_team" title="Cambridgeshire Women cricket team">Cambridgeshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornwall_Women_cricket_team" title="Cornwall Women cricket team">Cornwall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumbria_Women_cricket_team" title="Cumbria Women cricket team">Cumbria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derbyshire_Women_cricket_team" title="Derbyshire Women cricket team">Derbyshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devon_Women_cricket_team" title="Devon Women cricket team">Devon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorset_Women_cricket_team" title="Dorset Women cricket team">Dorset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essex_Women_cricket_team" title="Essex Women cricket team">Essex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire_Women_cricket_team" title="Gloucestershire Women cricket team">Gloucestershire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampshire_Women_cricket_team" title="Hampshire Women cricket team">Hampshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hertfordshire_Women_cricket_team" title="Hertfordshire Women cricket team">Hertfordshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huntingdonshire_Women_cricket_team" title="Huntingdonshire Women cricket team">Huntingdonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kent_Women_cricket_team" title="Kent Women cricket team">Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancashire_Women_cricket_team" title="Lancashire Women cricket team">Lancashire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leicestershire_Women_cricket_team" title="Leicestershire Women cricket team">Leicestershire and Rutland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Women_cricket_team" title="Lincolnshire Women cricket team">Lincolnshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlesex_Women_cricket_team" title="Middlesex Women cricket team">Middlesex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norfolk_Women_cricket_team" title="Norfolk Women cricket team">Norfolk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire_Women_cricket_team" title="Northamptonshire Women cricket team">Northamptonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_East_Warriors" title="North East Warriors">North East Warriors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire_Women_cricket_team" title="Nottinghamshire Women cricket team">Nottinghamshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire_Women_cricket_team" title="Oxfordshire Women cricket team">Oxfordshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Women_cricket_team" title="Shropshire Women cricket team">Shropshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_Women_cricket_team" title="Somerset Women cricket team">Somerset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staffordshire_Women_cricket_team" title="Staffordshire Women cricket team">Staffordshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suffolk_Women_cricket_team" title="Suffolk Women cricket 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