MCC’s wasteful trip

WITH all money now crucial to the MCC after they turned down £150m from property developer Charles Rifkind in favour of funding their own improvements to Lord’s, the club will be spending members’ cash in extravagant fashion by staging the next World Cricket committee in Sydney.

The talking shop group meet twice a year, once at Lord’s and then again at an agreeable global Test location. The Sydney meeting is not even being staged during the Ashes Test, but two days after, prolonging the expensive jolly. If MCC members are paying, the summits should be at Lord’s, not on the other side of the world.

An MCC spokesman said: ‘The World Cricket committee has been hugely influential around floodlit cricket, pink balls, size of bats and sendings off, to name but four big issues.’

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