Question

What does MCC stand for?
A)The Marylebone Cricket Club
B)The Marylebone Cricket Corporation
C)The Marylebone Commercial Club
D)The Marylebone Cricket Committee

Answer 1

Hint: In 1611, The first reference to cricket being played as an adult sport took place and in the same year, a dictionary defined cricket as a boys' game. It is widely believed that during Saxon or Norman times cricket must have been invented by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands in south-east England.

Complete answer: In 1787, Marylebone Cricket Club was founded by Thomas Lord Staged his first match in London between Middlesex and Essex, the club was the governing body of Cricket when in 1788, it took the responsibility for the Laws of cricket ( a code specifying the rules of cricket) it soon became the leading Cricket Club in England and growing its influence and authority on laws on around the world cricket. The Lord’s Cricket Ground in London is the headquarters of the Marylebone Cricket Club.

There are nearly 130,000 skilled members who are a part of MCC committee and have the power to cast a vote hence, in order to become the member a candidate needs to get the vote of three members. Marylebone cricket club was formed which took the responsibility for creating the laws of cricket, it was a private club, which was later converted to national cricket association to look after the recreational game, now in modern times, this responsibility is on the shoulders of (ICC) International Cricket Council.

Therefore, the correct answer is Option A.

Note: Cricket established itself as a leading sport and gained popularity in London and the counties of England in the first half of the eighteenth century. The term cricket may have derived from bowls, it involves the intervention of a batsman trying to stop the ball from reaching its target by hitting it away.