Spiritual home: Lord’s, the headquarters of Marylebone Cricket Club, is often referred to as the ‘home of cricket’
LONDON – The chief executive of Marylebone Cricket Club insisted Tuesday the decision to remove Eton v Harrow and Oxford v Cambridge from its annual fixture list at Lord’s “did not arise as a result of any ‘anxiety to kowtow to the woke police'”.
Last week MCC, the owners of Lord’s in northwest London, announced that the fixtures between the elite fee-paying schools and England’s two oldest universities would no longer be guaranteed to be staged at the ‘home of cricket’ from next year.
Both matches have been played at Lord’s since the 19th century.
MCC chief executive Guy Lavender wrote to the club’s 23,000 members on Tuesday saying this “was not a decision which was taken lightly”.
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