The 2019 Marylebone Cricket Club University Matches were a series of
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
matches that were played between the eighteen
County Championship teams and the six
Marylebone Cricket Club University teams (MCCU) of England and Wales. The first two rounds of fixtures were classed as
first-class matches. Each county side played one fixture against an MCCU side ahead of the start of the
2019 County Championship
The 2019 County Championship, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2019 Specsavers County Championship, was the 120th cricket County Championship season. As in 2018, Division One had eight teams and Division Two had ten teams. The first round of ...
.
In the opening round of fixtures,
Alastair Cook
Sir Alastair Nathan Cook (born 25 December 1984) is an English cricketer who plays for Essex County Cricket Club, and played for England in all international formats from 2006 to 2018. A former captain of the England Test and One-Day Intern ...
scored 150
not out
In cricket, a batter is not out if they come out to bat in an innings and have not been dismissed by the end of an innings. The batter is also ''not out'' while their innings is still in progress.
Occurrence
At least one batter is not out at t ...
for
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
against
Cambridge MCCU
Cambridge University Cricket Club, first recorded in 1817, is the representative cricket club for students of the University of Cambridge. Depending on the circumstances of each individual match, the club has always been recognised as holding ...
, in his first match since retiring from
Test cricket
Test cricket is a form of first-class cricket played at international level between teams representing full member countries of the International Cricket Council (ICC). A match consists of four innings (two per team) and is scheduled to last fo ...
. The opening round also saw
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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beat
Cardiff MCCU
Cardiff South Wales MCC University, formerly Cardiff University Centre of Cricketing Excellence, commonly abbreviated to Cardiff MCCU, is one of six University Centres of Cricketing Excellence supported by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). It c ...
by 568 runs, a record margin for a first-class match in England. In the third and final round of matches, England Test cricketer
Haseeb Hameed
Haseeb Hameed (born 17 January 1997) is an English professional cricketer who plays internationally for the England Test cricket team. In domestic cricket, he represents Nottinghamshire, having previously played for Lancashire. Hameed made his ...
scored a double century, albeit in a fixture without first-class status.
In August 2019, the
England and Wales Cricket Board
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is the Sports governing body, national governing body of cricket in England and Wales. It was formed on 1 January 1997 as a single governing body to combine the roles formerly fulfilled by the Test and ...
(ECB) announced that the 2020 fixtures will be the last ones to have first-class status.
Fixtures
Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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References
External links
Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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Marylebone Cricket Club University Matches
English domestic cricket competitions