BBC Precious and Ellen are two of the pupils the MCC foundation hopes to inspire to play cricket A new tournament, specifically for state school pupils, has been launched at Lord’s cricket ground by former England captains Heather Knight and Michael Vaughan. The Knight-Stokes Cup will be a T20 competition contested next summer via a...
Getty Images Dame Esther Rantzen told the BBC in 2023 that she had joined assisted dying clinic Dignitas Dame Esther Rantzen has appealed to the House of Lords not to block a bill giving terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to an assisted death, after it was backed by MPs on Friday....
When Bavuma walked into the post-match news conference and carefully placed the glittering mace – the prize awarded to the WTC winners – down on the table in front of him, the significance of the moment was not lost. It is more than three decades since South Africa’s cricketers were readmitted to the international fold...
Well-oiled South African fans had filtered out of Lord’s yesterday evening buoyantly going through their repertoire of songs after a blissful day of batting. They shuffled through the gates on the fourth day decidedly more sombre, with the sobering reality there was still 69 runs to get. Ashwell Prince, South Africa’s batting coach, acknowledged getting...
South Africa’s players have “massive belief” they can pull off a sensational victory in the World Test Championship final, says batter David Bedingham. Australia initially put themselves in a strong position on day two, dismissing the Proteas for 138 in response to their own first-innings total of 212. But South Africa roared back into the...
The steward at the bottom of the steps in front of the Lord’s pavilion must be in danger of suffering from repetitive strain injury. Every time he settled back into his chair after lifting the latch to open and close the gate to allow an Australian batter out to the middle he was soon repeating...
There was also a redemption element of sorts to Rabada’s efforts with the ball. The 30-year-old fast bowler had come into the match with something of a cloud hanging over him having recently served a short ban for recreational drug use. “It wasn’t my best moment, as I have alluded to,” Rabada said, in a...
The sun burst through after lunch and that adage about looking up to the sky, rather than down at the pitch, rang true as Smith and Webster patiently steadied the ship for Australia. Since his last Test at Lord’s during the 2023 Ashes – when he made 110 – Smith has endured a slightly fallow...
Three wickets apiece for seamers Logan van Beek and Ben Green set up Leicestershire’s first red-ball victory at Lord’s in 45 years, flattening Middlesex to strengthen their position as County Championship Division Two front-runners. Van Beek took 3-28 – including two wickets in as many balls – while Green’s 3-32 also played a pivotal role...
Lord’s will host the final of the Women’s T20 World Cup on Sunday 5 July next year, organisers have announced. The 12-team tournament will be held across England with Headingley, Old Trafford, Edgbaston, The Oval, the Hampshire Bowl and Bristol’s County Ground also hosting matches. It will begin on Friday, 12 June with the full...
New England head coach Charlotte Edwards tells BBC Sport’s Joe Wilson to have a portrait of her in the Long Room at Lord’s is “truly special”. The painting is just the third of a woman commissioned by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). READ MORE: ‘Very short’ list for captain, says coach Edwards Read full article...
Kate Whannel Political reporter Getty Images Imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1538 waiting to be executed, Henry Courtenay, the Earl of Devon, wrote on his cell walls words which would become his family’s motto – “Where have I fallen, what have I done?” Nearly 500 years later, another Earl of Devon, is once...