High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members` club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord`s Cricket Ground in St John`s Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of cricket both in England and Wales as well as worldwide. In 1993 many of its global functions were transferred to the International Cricket Council (ICC) and its English governance passed to the Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB) at the same time, leaving the MCC to act as guardian of the rules and mentor of the spirit of the game.