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Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)

May 2 , 2019 2035 days 849 0
  • Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara was on May 1, 2019 appointed as the President of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), England.
  • Sangakkara has become the first non-British to head the Club.
History
  • Marylebone cricket club was founded in 1787.
  • MCC is the owner of the world’s most famous cricket ground The Lord’s.
  • MCC is the guardian and copyright owner of the laws of the cricket.
  • It governed England and Wales and world cricket till 1993.
  • ICC took over world cricket management from MCC in 1993.

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