LONDON: Two of English cricket’s oldest fixtures, Oxford v Cambridge and Eton v Harrow will no longer be staged annually at Lord’s after this year, ending a tradition stretching back 200 years and which once enjoyed the sight of poet Lord Byron strolling to the wicket.
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which owns ‘the home of cricket’, said both matches would take place in late June but added they “will no longer be played as regular annual fixtures at Lord’s after 2022”.
The club, often portrayed by its critics as elitist, said the decision had been taken in order to “further MCC’s goal to broaden the scope of the fixture list” and give “a wider range of…
