The library and archive at Lord’s Cricket Ground is responsible for providing a library for the members of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) which began in 1787, and to hold its documentary history. Here is how they describe the library:

The MCC Library contains the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of books and publications dedicated to cricket.
Spanning over 20,000 titles from the latest books and magazines to rare editions and pamphlets from the game’s earliest days, the Library is an invaluable resource for authors, researchers and journalists.

And here is how they describe their archive:

The M.C.C. Collection starts from 1826, the year when the Club’s first Pavilion was destroyed by fire and the original records of the Club were lost. The first minute book, commencing from 1826, highlights this fact and goes on to document the transformation of the Club into a professional organisation responsible for administering the game. The MCC Collection consists of a variety of primary source material including scorebooks, minute books, members’ registers and correspondence, all of which are able to support key topics of interest to students, authors and researchers, not least Bodyline and the D’Oliveira affair.

You can learn more about the library, the archive and the cricket ground from their website: https://apps.lords.org/lords/tours-and-museum/museum/our-departments/

We will be visiting the library and the archive, and having a tour of the cricket ground at 10:00AM August 28.