Cricket News

The English domestic season will again be launched in the Middle East next year with Nottinghamshire taking on MCC in Abu Dhabi

Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, the former England's women captain and now honorary MCC member, has been appointed to the House of Lords

Umpires will now make all decisions regarding bad light without consulting the batsmen under amendments to the Laws of cricket that will take effect from October 1

Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the former Times cricket correspondent and veteran commentator on the BBC's Test Match Special, will begin his one-year tenure as President of Marylebone Cricket Club on Friday

The MCC has cancelled its fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe after receiving government advice not to travel there

The MCC World Cricket Committee fears for the future of Test cricket unless action is taken quickly to promote the traditional format

Umar Akmal's aggressive half century, combined with disciplined bowling efforts from Shoaib Akhtar and Saeed Ajmal, helped the Pakistanis to start their English summer with a six-run victory over MCC at Lord's

Brian Lara still has serious ambitions of coming out of retirement to try his hand at Twenty20 and is targeting next year's fourth IPL tournament

Hamid Hassan, who was the first Afghan cricketer to play at Lord's when he spent time on the MCC Young Cricketers staff in 2007, has been included in the MCC side to play Pakistan in a Twenty20 game

Sourav Ganguly will captain an MCC team including Brian Lara against Pakistan, at Lord's, on June 27 to mark the start of their tour of England

MCC will sponsor an international contest for the first time with the Twenty20 and Test series between Australia and Pakistan being played under their Spirit of Cricket branding

Durham's bowlers wasted no time in wrapping up a comprehensive 311-run victory over MCC in the first match of the county season

Durham continued to dominate the county curtain-raiser against MCC at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, setting their opponents an improbable target of 526 for victory on day three

Keith Bradshaw, the chief executive of MCC and one of the main pioneers of the pink ball that is currently undergoing floodlit trials in Abu Dhabi, has conceded that further tests and research will be necessary before the ball is ready for use in Test cri

Durham put both the MCC's batsmen and the much-hyped pink ball through their paces today, skittling their opponents for 162 to assume take control after two days of the county curtain-raiser

Durham pair Michael Di Venuto and Kyle Coetzer both scored centuries as bat dominated pink ball on an experimental first day of the season-opening fixture against MCC

The traditional curtain-raiser to the English domestic season begins on Monday as county champions Durham play MCC

Jon Lewis, the Gloucestershire opening bowler, Glamorgan left-arm spinner Dean Cosker and Tim Murtagh from Surrey have been drafted into the MCC squad for the match against Durham in Abu Dhabi next week

Keith Bradshaw, the MCC chief executive, has said there won't be any reduction in the amount of international cricket staged at Lord's during the Olympic summer in 2012

MCC have departed for their seven-match tour of the USA.