The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) is a sporting club based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1838. Melbourne - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is the sixth-largest country in the world, the only country to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia/Oceania. ... 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

The MCC is responsible for management and development of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, a power given to it by the government-appointed MCG Trust and an Act of Parliament. This also guarantees the club's occupation of about 20 per cent of the stadium for its Members Reserve. Cricket at the MCG. The old Members Stand, in the centre background, has now been demolished. ... The form of the Government of Victoria is prescribed in its Constitution, which dates from 1855, although it has been amended many times since then. ... In Westminster System parliaments, an Act of Parliament is a part of the law passed by the Parliament. ...

In 1859, the MCC was involved in the drafting of the first set of rules for Australian rules football, and in 1877 hosted the first game of test cricket in history - played between Australia and England. In 1971, the ground hosted the first One Day International cricket match. Australian Rules redirects here. ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ... The Australian cricket team is today regarded as the dominant team in world cricket. ... The English cricket team is a national cricket team representing England and Wales. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... A night match at Old Trafford One-day cricket is a version of the sport of cricket that is completed in one day, as distinct from Test cricket and first-class cricket which can take up to five days to complete. ...

As well as cricket, the MCC is also an umbrella organisation for other sports - golf, lacrosse, baseball, tennis, lawn bowls, shooting, hockey, and squash. For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket Portal. ... Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor game where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ... A womens lacrosse player carries the ball past a defender. ... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri. ... Tennis is a racquet sport played between either two players (singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Player(s) use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball over a net into the opponents court. ... Men playing bowls Bowls (or Lawn Bowls) is a precision sport where the goal is to roll slightly radially asymmetrical balls (called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack) than ones opponent is able to do. ... Shooting is the act of causing a gun to fire at a target. ... Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a puck (a flat, 6 oz. ... Squash racquet and ball Squash is an indoor racquet sport which was, until recently, called Squash Racquets, a reference to the squashable soft ball used in the game (compared with the harder ball used in its parent game Racquets-see below). ...

Membership

The MCC has the biggest membership of any sporting club in Australia, with more than 90,000 members and between 10,000 and 15,000 people nominated for membership annually. There are approximately 155,000 people on the waiting list.

External links

• Melbourne Cricket Club official site (http://www.mcc.org.au/)