
Marylebone Cricket Club, the custodians of Lord’s, has informed its members that the decision to remove Eton v Harrow and Oxford v Cambridge from its fixture list “did not arise as a result of any ‘anxiety to kowtow to the woke police’”.
MCC announced last week that the two fixtures between the public schools and leading universities would no longer be annually held at Lord’s from next year. The fixtures have been played between the teams at Lord’s since the 19th century.