Earliest Notice of the Marylebone Club
- When
- 30 July 1787
- Where
- Lord's, Marylebone
The World advertised a 30 July 1787 match at Lord's between the Mary-le-bone Club and the Islington Club, the earliest notice of MCC.
It was advertised in The World on Friday, 27 July 1787 that on Monday, 30 July a match would be played at Lord's between eleven gentlemen of the Mary-le-bone Club and eleven gentlemen of the Islington Club. According to Buckley, this is the earliest notice of the Marylebone Club. As with Lord's inaugural fixture, no post-match report of MCC's inaugural game survives. By this date the ground was already known as Lord's.
Sources
- Marylebone Cricket Club Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-28
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