Mark Nicholls appointed new president of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)

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Mark Nicholls has been elected as the next President of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

An Overview of the News

• He will take over from current chairman Stephen Fry in October this year.
• His appointment was announced during the Annual General Meeting of the MCC.
• Nicholls became a member of the MCC in 1981 and had a successful professional cricket career spanning over two decades, in which he scored over 25,000 runs and took 173 wickets.

Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC):

• It is a cricket club which was established in 1787.
• MCC is one of the oldest and most prestigious cricket clubs in the world.
• Since 1814, the MCC has been based at the Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London and is the owner of the MCC Lord's Cricket Ground.

Founder - Thomas Lord