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Lugogo Stadium , also known as Lugogo Cricket Oval , is a cricket ground in Kampala , Uganda . The first recorded match held on the ground came in 1957 when Kenya Asians played Sunder Cricket Club. It has also gained popularity as a music concert venue in Uganda.

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70-471: In that same year Uganda first used the ground when the national team played the Sunder Cricket Club. The ground held its inaugural first-class match when an East African Invitation XI played the touring Marylebone Cricket Club in 1963. A further first-class match followed in 1967 when a combined East Africa team played the touring Indians . The next first-class matches to be held on

140-726: A Ugandan sports venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Uganda national cricket team T20I kit The Uganda national cricket team , nicknamed the Cricket Cranes , is the men's team that represents Uganda in international cricket . The team is organised by the Uganda Cricket Association , which has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1998. Uganda first fielded an international team as early as 1914, against

210-582: A Special General Meeting in June 2012 to consider petitioning The Queen in Council to incorporate the club by Royal Charter . The Royal Charter removed many of the barriers and simplified the administration of the club. Resulting from the petition, in December 2012 the club was granted a Royal Charter, two previous attempts having been unsuccessful. As a result, the club became an incorporated association and

280-416: 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, The Queen , the club's patron,

350-618: A quadrangular tournament in 1966 when Zambia joined in. From then until the tournament's end in 1980, Uganda won the tournament just once. The East Africa team left the ICC in 1989 and was replaced by the East and Central Africa team the same year. This new team was a combination of Malawi , Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, and they took part in the ICC Trophy for the first time in 1990 , also taking part in 1994 , 1997 and 2001 . Uganda left

420-619: A redevelopment plan, Vision for Lord's , 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 John Major from the Main Committee. In 2022, Guy Lavender, Secretary & Chief Executive of MCC, announced that the annual one-day Oxford v Cambridge and Eton v Harrow matches, both of which have been played at Lord's since

490-527: A two-wicket win. Their next matches were two one-day games against Bermuda, also in Nairobi, in October 2007. They surprised their more experienced rivals, going down by just seven runs after Nandikishore Patel scored a half-century, before winning the second match by 43 runs with Joel Olwenyi scoring a half-century of his own. In November 2007, Uganda travelled to Windhoek, Namibia to participate in

560-601: Is east of Marylebone Station and west of Baker Street . To commemorate the association, a plaque was unveiled in Dorset Square on 9 May 2006 by Sir Andrew Strauss . 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. On 15 October 1808, he rented two fields in the North Bank area of

630-458: 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

700-541: 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. From 2005 the MCC funded six university cricket academies known as the MCC Universities (MCCUs), which had previously been funded (from 2000) by

770-493: Is required to nominate their successor at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) which takes place during his/her term of office. 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

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840-528: Is that MCC adopted these colours from J&W Nicholson & Co 's gin after the company's chairman, MCC benefactor William Nicholson (1825–1909), secured the club's position at Lord's with a loan. 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, the Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon , of Goodwood -fame. Often viewed as too traditional ( ie. " establishment "),

910-977: The 2019–21 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League . In 2021 and 2023 , Uganda toured Namibia. On 26 November 2023, Uganda registered their first win against an ICC Full Member by defeating Zimbabwe in the T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier . The Uganda Cricket Association (UCA) is responsible for all matches played in Uganda and by the Uganda cricket team. It was admitted to the International Cricket Council in 1998 as an associate member. Its current headquarters are in Kampala, Uganda. International Match Summary — Uganda Last updated 29 October 2024 Most T20I runs for Uganda Most T20I wickets for Uganda T20I record versus other nations Records complete to T20I #2937. Last updated 29 October 2024. This lists all

980-694: The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup , making it their first time in the ICC T20 WC after they finished 2nd in 2023 Africa Qualifier . Uganda combined with their regional rivals Kenya and Tanzania to form the East Africa team. The first known match for this team was against a South African "Non-Europeans" team captained by Basil D'Oliveira in September 1958 in Nairobi , with the visitors winning by seven wickets. East Africa became an associate member of

1050-582: The Cayman Islands , Hong Kong , and Tanzania before beating Papua New Guinea in the semi-final and Argentina in the tournament final. Winning Division Three earned Uganda a spot in the ICC's High Performance Program, and promotion to Division Two. Uganda took part in a four-team Twenty20 tournament before the 2007 Twenty20 World Cup , playing games against Pakistan , Kenya, and Bangladesh in Nairobi. As expected, they lost against Pakistan and Bangladesh before upsetting African rivals Kenya with

1120-559: The East Africa Protectorate , but only began competing regularly in the early 1950s, playing frequent series against regional rivals Kenya and Tanzania (then Tanganyika ). From 1966, Uganda contributed players to a combined East African team , which was reconstituted as East and Central Africa in 1989. The country's first ICC tournament played in its own right was the 2001 ICC Trophy in Canada. Uganda played in

1190-535: The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). (Prior to 2010 they were known as the University Centres of Cricketing Excellence, or UCCEs.) These were based at Cambridge , Cardiff , Durham , Leeds/Bradford , Loughborough and Oxford , and incorporated a total of thirteen universities. From 2012 all six MCCUs held first-class status. Each MCCU played a trio of matches against professional county sides at

1260-814: The Hambledon Club through the 1770s and then, in the early 1780s, had returned to the London area where the White Conduit Club had begun in Islington . 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 Sir Pelham Warner , it was formed in 1782 as an offshoot from a West End convivial club called the Je-ne-sais-quoi , some of whose members frequented

1330-496: The Hon. Colonel Charles Lennox (1764–1819), later succeeding as the 4th Duke of Richmond . White Conduit was nominally an exclusive club that only "gentlemen" might play for, but the club did engage professionals and one of these was Thomas Lord , a man who was recognised for his business acumen (becoming a successful wine merchant ) "as well as his bowling ability". The new club might have continued except that White Conduit Fields

1400-731: The Morning Herald 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 G. B. Buckley said, it

1470-575: The Pavilion and other stands at Lord's Cricket Ground to attend all matches played there. 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. The move to change was spearheaded by Rachael Heyhoe Flint who applied as "R Flint" to slip into the male-only application system. When Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie ,

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1540-522: The WCL Division Two tournament. Uganda lost their group matches against; Denmark , Namibia , Oman , and the UAE but did defeat Argentina in their group match and also their positional playoff to finish fifth. Uganda's bottom two finish saw them relegated to Division Three . In January 2009, Uganda won four of their five group matches and edged Papua New Guinea on run rate, to finish second in

1610-586: The White Conduit House in Islington and played matches on the neighbouring White Conduit Fields , which had been a prominent venue for cricket in the 1720s. Arthur Haygarth said in Scores and Biographies 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". This gentlemen's club, which

1680-422: The 19th century. The club has other sporting interests with both a real tennis and a squash court on site at Lord's, and golf , chess , bridge and backgammon societies. From the beginning of the 20th century, MCC organised the England cricket team and, outside Test matches , the touring England team officially played as "MCC" up to and including the 1976/77 tour of India. The England touring team wore

1750-406: The 2010s. In 2005 the club was criticised (including by a few of its own members) for siding with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) over the latter's decision to award television rights for Test cricket to British Sky Broadcasting , thus removing Test cricket from terrestrial television. The then Secretary and Chief Executive of MCC, Roger Knight , represented the club on the board of

1820-751: The 20th century, commencing with the 1903–04 tour of Australia and ending with the 1976–77 tour of India , MCC organised international tours on behalf of the England cricket team for playing Test matches . On these tours, the England team played under the auspices of MCC in non-international matches. In 1993, its administrative and governance functions were transferred to the ICC and the Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB). MCC teams are essentially ad hoc because they have never taken part in any formal competition but have always held first-class status when playing against first-class opposition. The current president of

1890-751: The Africa Cup. In 2004, Uganda played their first first-class matches in the ICC Intercontinental Cup against Kenya and Namibia , winning against Namibia. In August that year, they finished second to Namibia in the Africa Cricket Association Championships in Zambia . This qualified them for the following year's ICC Trophy, in which they finished in the twelfth and last place after losing to Papua New Guinea in their final play-off match. Earlier in

1960-499: 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. 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

2030-581: The Duke of Edinburgh , the Earl of Home , Lord Cowdrey and Sir Tim Rice 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: Tom Graveney , Derek Underwood , Mike Gatting and Matthew Fleming . The 2018–19 President, Anthony Wreford, nominated Kumar Sangakkara as his successor in May 2019; Sangakkara became MCC's first non-British President. Each President

2100-471: 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. MCC decided to allow members and other spectators to continue to bring limited amounts of alcoholic drinks into the ground at all matches. The ICC , was attempting to implement a ban on this practice at all international matches around the world. MCC opted to write to

2170-479: The East and Central Africa combination and became an associate member of the ICC in their own right in 1998. Their first international tournament was the 2001 ICC Trophy. After winning all five of their first round games, they lost a play-off match against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the right to enter the second stage of the tournament. The following year, they finished third in their group in

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2240-708: The ICC Division 3 competition in Buenos Aires , Argentina and earn the final place at the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier . In April 2009, Uganda travelled to South Africa for the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier. Despite a first up win against Namibia, Uganda lost their remaining four Group A matches and failed to make the Super Eight stage, thus ending their chance to qualify for the 2011 Cricket World Cup . Uganda finished 10th overall after defeating Denmark but losing to Bermuda in position playoff matches, and thus

2310-689: The ICC in 1966. East Africa toured England in 1972 and the Marylebone Cricket Club played a first-class match against East Africa in January 1974, winning by 237 runs. The following year, East Africa played in the 1975 Cricket World Cup in England. After various warm-up games, including a 3 wicket win against Glamorgan , they played New Zealand , India and England in the World Cup itself, losing all three matches. The World Cup

2380-502: The ICC on an annual basis to seek permission for members and spectators to import alcohol into Lord's . 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 Keith Bradshaw (Secretary & Chief Executive 2006–11) may have influenced the removal from office of England Coach Duncan Fletcher in April 2007. In 2012, MCC made headlines over

2450-701: The Jubilee of the Club" and reproduced the full scorecard. On 25 April 1787, the London Morning Herald newspaper carried a notice: "The Members of the Cricket Club are desired to meet at the Star and Garter , 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". The agenda is unknown but, only three weeks later on Saturday, 19 May,

2520-431: The MCC committee. 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. MCC first engaged a Club Secretary in 1822. The title

2590-406: The MCC took responsibility for the laws of cricket , issuing a revised version that year. Changes to these Laws are now determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC), but the copyright is still owned by MCC. 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. For much of

2660-673: The Mary-le-bone Club and 11 gentlemen of the Islington Club". Buckley stated that "this is the earliest notice of the Marylebone Club". As with the inaugural match at Lord's, no post-match report of the inaugural MCC match has been found. There have been three Lord's grounds: the original on the Portman Estate and two on the Eyre Estate . All three sites lie to the west of Regent's Park . Thomas Lord leased

2730-665: 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". 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. This may have been so, but cricket generally was in decline at the time because of the Napoleonic Wars . The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (the ACS) holds that "(from) 1810 to 1814

2800-719: The St John's Wood Estate, which belonged to Richard Eyre, a local landowner after whom Eyre's Tunnel on the Regent's Canal 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. 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 St John's Wood Cricket Club which eventually merged with MCC. Lord officially took over his second ground on 8 May 1811 by re-laying there his turf from

2870-421: The beginning of each season, with first-class status conferred on the first two of these matches. 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 T20 cricket in the programme. Despite the ECB having resumed funding,

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2940-399: 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. "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

3010-482: The club is Mark Nicholas , the former Hampshire captain, who succeeded Stephen Fry on 1 October 2023. The origin of MCC was as a gentlemen's club that had flourished through most of the 18th century, including, at least in part, an existence as the original London Cricket Club , which had played at the Artillery Ground through the middle years of the century. Many of its members became involved with

3080-492: The club). In addition, membership rules allow a certain number of people each year to be elected ahead of their turn; beneficiaries have included Mick Jagger and in 2018 the Prime Minister , Theresa, now Lady May . MCC also grants limited honorary membership to people who have had distinguished cricket careers. The club recognises achievement in women's cricket with, for example, Charlotte Edwards an inductee in

3150-564: The distinctive red and yellow stripes of the Marylebone Cricket Club as their colours for the last time on the tour to New Zealand in 1996/97 . The true provenance of MCC's colours is (and probably will remain) unsubstantiated, but its players often turned out sporting sky blue ( qv. Eton or Cambridge) until well into the 19th century. The club eventually settled on the now well-recognised colours of scarlet and gold, or in other parlance "egg and bacon". One purported theory

3220-402: 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. In March 2023 it

3290-425: The game was all but dead", largely because of the war and "the very real threat of civil unrest in England". The second venue is now generally known as Lord's Middle Ground . 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

3360-636: The ground didn't come until 2005, when Uganda played two matches there in the Intercontinental Cup against Kenya and Namibia . The Lugogo Stadium is the only cricket venue in Uganda to have held first-class cricket. Surrounding the cricket ground there are tennis courts and a football ground which is the home ground of Kampala City Council FC . The stadium is scheduled for redevelopment in 2024. 0°19′33.07″N 32°36′16.46″E  /  0.3258528°N 32.6045722°E  / 0.3258528; 32.6045722 This article about

3430-585: The members' area. Video emerged of MCC members shouting abuse at Australian players after Jonny Bairstow was stumped under controversial circumstances, despite the dismissal being fair and legal. 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 Duchess of Rutland 's XI. The men's team tour internationally four times per year, and

3500-700: The next three editions of the tournament, renamed the ICC World Cup Qualifier , but did not come close to qualifying for the Cricket World Cup . In the World Cricket League (WCL), Uganda reached ICC World Cricket League Division Two on three occasions, but was relegated to Division Three each time. The team participated in six editions of the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier . They qualified for

3570-568: The north end of Lisson Grove and that the Regent's Canal 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 ( the A41 ) to north-east and the Regent's Canal to south-east. It was less than 300 yards (270  m ) from the site of the modern Lord's ground. Lord

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3640-403: The original ground, now referred to as Lord's Old Ground , 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. Over 200 matches are known to have been played there, mostly involving MCC and/or Middlesex . The Old Ground was on the site now occupied by Dorset Square which

3710-445: The players who were part of the most recent One-day or T20I squad. Uncapped players are listed in italics . Updated as of 31 August 2023. Marylebone Cricket Club Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground , which it owns, in St John's Wood , London . The club, formerly the governing body of cricket , retains considerable global influence. In 1788,

3780-420: The university teams continue to use the MCC University names. Presidents serve a twelve-month term and cannot normally serve two terms in succession. Notable exceptions occurred during World War I and World War II . In 1914, Lord Hawke was appointed president and was asked to remain in the post till the end of the Great War. As a result, Hawke was MCC President for five years from 1914 to 1918 inclusive and

3850-414: The venture. Lord took a lease from the Portman Estate on some land at Dorset Fields where Dorset Square is now sited; and the ground 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 Marylebone , when the first known match was played there on 21 May but, by the end of July, it was known as Lord's . As it

3920-604: The women's team tour every other year. 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 MCC Cricket Coaching Book , a bible for cricket skills, and runs training programmes for young cricketers, including many at its Lord's Indoor Centre. MCC continues to tour around England, playing matches against various state and private schools. This tradition has been followed since

3990-404: 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." Before 2013 the MCC was a private members' club (meaning that it had the status of an unincorporated association ); this status had several limitations. Since an unincorporated association

4060-417: The year, they again played against Namibia and Kenya in the 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup , losing both games. In January 2007, Uganda faced Bermuda and Canada as those two teams prepared for Division One of the World Cricket League in Nairobi . This also served as preparation for Uganda's visit to Darwin, Australia, for Division Three of the same tournament. Uganda won their Group B games against

4130-399: Was "apparently the first match to be played on Lord's new ground". A total of eight matches are known to have been played at Lord's in 1787, one of them a single wicket event. The only one which featured the Mary-le-bone Club took place on Monday, 30 July. It was advertised in The World on Friday, 27 July 1787: "On Monday, 30 July will be played (at Lord's) a match between 11 gentlemen of

4200-402: 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. Winchilsea and Lennox asked Lord to find a new ground and offered him a guarantee against any losses he may suffer in

4270-419: 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. During the second test of the 2023 Ashes series at Lord's, the MCC apologised to Cricket Australia and suspended three members for confronting Australia national cricket team players walking through

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4340-497: Was appointed in 1939 and remained in situ for seven years until 1945 before being succeeded by General Sir Ronald Adam . In his Barclays World of Cricket essay about the MCC Presidency, E. W. Swanton 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. This observation did indeed reflect societal change, although

4410-425: Was followed by a first-class match against Sri Lanka at the County Ground, Taunton , which the Sri Lankans won by 115 runs. East Africa played in the ICC Trophies of 1979 , 1982 and 1986 , without qualifying for the World Cup from any of them. Uganda continued playing their regular matches against Kenya and Tanzania, despite Kenya leaving the East Africa combination in and the triangular tournament became

4480-432: Was forced to abandon the Middle Ground because of the canal construction. The decision on the route was made by Parliament in 1813. Lord, via his protégé Lord Frederick Beauclerk , approached the Eyre family who agreed to lease him another plot nearby in St John's Wood , 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

4550-403: Was in Marylebone, the White Conduit members who relocated to it soon decided to call themselves the "Mary-le-bone Club". The exact date of MCC's foundation is lost but seems to have been sometime in the late spring or the summer of 1787. On 10 & 11 July 1837, a South v North match was staged at Lord's to commemorate the MCC's Golden Jubilee. Warner described it as "a Grand Match to celebrate

4620-439: Was multi-purpose, had a social meeting place at the Star and Garter on Pall Mall . It was the same club that was responsible for drafting the Laws of Cricket 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 George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea (1752–1826) and

4690-610: Was relegated to 2013 ICC World Cricket League Division Three . In August 2018, Uganda replaced Ghana in the 2018 Africa T20 Cup , after Ghana had declined Cricket South Africa 's invite to compete in the tournament. Uganda played in the 2019 T20 World Cup Qualifier Africa but got to the fourth position of the table. In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 cricket matches played between Uganda and other ICC members since 1 January 2019 have been full T20I matches. After April 2019, Uganda played in

4760-445: Was succeeded in 1919 by the former Hampshire slow left-arm bowler Henry Forster , who shortly afterwards was raised to the peerage as Lord Forster . Throughout the war, Lord's was used for military purposes, including training and recreation. Problems frequently arose but, in Wisden's view, Hawke was "the greatest help in giving wise counsel towards their solution". Hawke's tenure was exceeded by that of Stanley Christopherson who

4830-489: Was the only woman (other than domestic staff) permitted to enter the Pavilion during play. In February 1999, five women were invited to join as playing members. 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

4900-543: Was the present Lord's , now home to MCC for over 200 years. From 1996 to 2008, the MCC played nine first class matches and three list A matches against touring sides at grounds other than Lords: MCC is the body responsible for, and remains the copyright holder of, the Laws of Cricket . Its Laws Sub-Committee is responsible for debating and drafting changes to the Laws, with the Main Committee then voting on any changes proposed. MCC has 18,000 full members and 5,000 associate members. Members have voting rights and can use

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