Stephen Fry, the former celebrity president of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), has said the 237-year-old club is full of “beetroot-coloured” men and “stinks” of privilege.
Speaking during a panel discussion at the Welsh literary event Hay Festival, Fry addressed issues of diversity in cricket, having led the MCC from 2022 to 2023. At the festival, an All Stars cricket match took on the Hay-on-Wye Cricket Ground, umpired by Fry, with names from the literary and broadcasting industries going head-to-head in an Actors vs Writers match.
