Marylebone Cricket Club
The Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) is an English cricket club from 1787.
Although its responsibility for international cricket was completely transferred to the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1993 at the latest , and its function as an English association is now with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the MCC alone is still responsible for drawing up the Laws of Cricket (Cricket rules) and holds the world copyright on it .
Until around the turn of the century, the MCC was practically the umbrella organization responsible for all world cricket. At that time, the Board of Control for Test Matches for international matches, the Advisory County Cricket Committee for the national professional area and in 1909 the Imperial Cricket Conference were established to manage more effectively . By and large, it stayed that way until 1968, when a thorough reorganization, especially of cricket, took place in England.
Since the MCC as a private club could not expect any public funding, it founded the national Cricket Council as a loose umbrella organization and the Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB) as an association for professional sport. The MCC Cricket Association was transformed into the National Cricket Association , responsible for the amateur sector. This allowed public money to flow into the sport of cricket.
This structure was only dissolved in the 1990s and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) took its place as a unified cricket association.
The MCC is located at Lord's Cricket Ground in St. John's Wood in London , which is also the most famous cricket stadium in the world, often referred to as the Mecca of cricket. The members of the club enjoy privileges, so normally only they are allowed to enter the Pavilion (clubhouse), a large Victorian building from 1889. A strict dress code is a matter of course. They can be recognized in public by their yellow and red striped ties or jackets. Under pressure from the government, female members have only been admitted since 1998.
Lord’s is also the seat of the ECB and one of the 18 first-class counties, the Middlesex County Cricket Club . The International Cricket Council (ICC) was also based there until 2005 when it moved to Dubai . This was done not least for tax reasons, but also to take account of the changed balance of power, away from England (and Australia) and towards the Asian countries.
The club itself did not and does not participate in championships. However, he maintains many teams that play friendly matches in Great Britain and undertake many cricket tours abroad, including two tours to Germany in recent years.
