Club nights will be held in the 278 Restauarant in the Grand Stand on the following dates when Cricket matches are taking place at Lord's;

Tuesday 1st July  - Schools Open T20 Competition
Tuesday 9th September  - Middlesex v Derby (Day two)
Tuseday 23rd September - Evening before Middlesex v Gloucestershire  

There will be No club nights on the following dates;

Tuesday 10th June - Evening before World Test Championship Final
Tuesday 17th June - Breakdown between World Test Championship Final & T20 Blast match
Tuesday 8th July - Week of England v India Test match
Tuesday 15th July - Breakdown between Test match & T20 Blast match
Tuesday 5th August - Hundred match
Tuesday 19th August - Evening before Hundred match
 

The 2025 Rubber Bridge competition is now under way with four leagues of four pairs in the first stage of the tournament. The top two teams in each league will qualify for the quarter-finals of the Brian Silverstone trophy, with the non-qualifiers entering a separate knockout Plate tournament. Good luck to all. You can track the results and standings here.

Am MCC team won the prestigious Ross Cope Memorial Cup at the RAC on 27th March, coming top of 16 teams in the Swiss Teams event. The MCC team were Lester Pereira/Nigel Clayton and Russell Tenzer/Gary Diamond. Team MCC were first or second all evening, finally winning on the last round. Commiserations to Geoff Lane and Pralab Barua, whose team were runners-up. See here for full details.

The Lord's Teams competition for the Peter Donovan Trophy took place on 23 March, with seven teams of four playing 42 board. The event was expertly directed by Victor Lesk. The lead fluctuated during the day, with the team of Harvey Laurance, Richard Samuel, David Alterman and Bill Coles triumphing in the end with +24 IMPs, while the second placed team were on +8 IMPs. Congratulations to Alan Ballantyne and Sonel Mehta, who were the best performing pair.

Following the success of an MCC team in the RAC's Centenary Cup earlier this year, Paul Filer and Simon Alterman won the RAC's Bowman Championship Pairs competition on 27th October. The all-day event with a total of 46 boards was in two sessions using Swiss format scoring.

Runners-up in the event were Geoff Lane and Pralab Barua, last year's winners, who won the morning session. But the trophy, presented by Michael Bailey (of RAC and MCC), went to Paul and Simon as the best of the 24 pairs throughout the day.

We held our Mixed Swiss teams in the Long Room at Lords on Sunday 13^th October, with 30 teams of four playing 42 boards. The competition was won by Dafydd & Tessa Jones, Gareth Birdsall and Sonia Zakrzewski with 90 victory points, in second place was team Foley (G Foley, S Obart, I Fine and N Clayton) with 84. A very enjoyable day was had by all, brilliantly directed by Victor Lesk and Rob Sassoon.  

The committee have had many representations as to the format of the master point trophy. At present the best scores up to a maximum of 6 are taken for any pairing. This allows pairs to keep playing until they have had 6 maximum scores. From the 1^st October 2024 we are going to tweak this a bit. For the 2024/25 season, only the first six scores with any other member/candidate will count. This hopefully means that there will be many more different pairings and make the competition a bit more exciting.

The MCC team secured a resounding victory in the 2024 Centenary Cup competition held at the RAC in Pall Mall on 20th May. MCC ran out clear winners with a score of +112 IMPs, with runners-up RAC Woodcote Park at +64 IMPs.

Full results of the event are available here. 

The MCC team of eight, pictured L-R with the trophy: Richard Cumming-Bruce, Lester Pereira, Gary Diamond, Russell Tenzer (Captain), John Pemberton, Mike Alsford, Pralab Barua, and Nigel Clayton.

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For those of you who enjoy playing Bridge on line Dominic Flint is keen to reach out to those interested in representing the club. Currently he is on the hunt for opposition near and far with games against Hurlingham, the North of England and on the other side of the Atlantic. To register your interest complete the form