The 2019 Marylebone Cricket Club University Matches were a series of
cricket
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matches that were played between the eighteen
County Championship teams and the six
Marylebone Cricket Club University teams (MCCU) of England and Wales. The first two rounds of fixtures were classed as
first-class matches. Each county side played one fixture against an MCCU side ahead of the start of the
2019 County Championship.
In the opening round of fixtures,
Alastair Cook
Sir Alastair Nathan Cook (born 25 December 1984) is an English former cricketer and former captain (cricket), captain of the England Test Cricket, Test and One-Day International, ODI teams. He is considered one of the greatest opening batsmen ...
scored 150
not out
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Occurrence
At least one batter is not out at ...
for
Essex
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against
Cambridge MCCU, in his first match since retiring from
Test cricket
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. The opening round also saw
Somerset
Somerset ( , ), Archaism, archaically Somersetshire ( , , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east ...
beat
Cardiff MCCU by 568 runs, a record margin for a first-class match in England. In the third and final round of matches, England Test cricketer
Haseeb Hameed scored a double century, albeit in a fixture without first-class status.
In August 2019, the
England and Wales Cricket Board
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(ECB) announced that the 2020 fixtures will be the last ones to have first-class status.
Fixtures
Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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References
External links
Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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Marylebone Cricket Club University Matches
English domestic cricket competitions