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Partner countries as of May 2011. Countries in green have active compacts; countries in orange have active threshold compacts. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a bilateral United States foreign aid agency established by the U.S. Congress in 2004. It is an independent agency separate from the State Department and USAID.
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. [1] The club, formerly the governing body of cricket, retains considerable global influence. In 1788, the MCC took responsibility for the laws of cricket, issuing a revised version that year.
The majority of MCC players in this period were contracted to county clubs or one of the two main university teams and appeared for MCC by invitation. Some players were from other countries. For much of the 20th century, MCC organised international tours in which the England cricket team played Test matches. The players selected for these tours ...
An international cricket team raised by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) toured India and Ceylon from October 1926 to March 1927 and played several first-class matches against regional and national sides in both countries. Of the many MCC teams to visit Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), this was the first to play first-class matches there.
As of 29 September 2024. The England men's cricket team represents England and Wales in international cricket. Since 1997, it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club (the MCC) since 1903. [ 8 ][ 9 ] England, as a founding nation, is a Full Member of the ...
English cricket team in Australia in 1928–29. The England cricket team toured Australia in 1928–29. England, known as the MCC in matches outside the Tests, retained The Ashes, winning the first four Tests and losing the last for a 4–1 series victory. Writing in the 1930 Wisden, SJ Southerton wrote: [1]
The France national cricket team is the men's team that represents the country of France in international cricket. They became an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1998, having previously been an affiliate member since 1987. [4] The country is best known for winning the silver medal in the cricket event at the 1900 ...
Non-members. The International Cricket Council (ICC) was founded at Lord's on 15 June 1909 as the Imperial Cricket Conference, [1] with Australia, England, and South Africa as its founding members. In the beginning, only countries within the Commonwealth could join. [2] India, New Zealand and the West Indies joined in 1926, and Pakistan joined ...