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The Melbourne Cricket Club was founded on November 15, 1838 when five men – Frederick Powlett, Robert Russell, George B. Smyth and brothers Alfred and Charles Mundy – agreed to form a cricket club to be known as the Melbourne Cricket Club.
The MCC always has been the foremost promoter of sport in Australia. Along with the playing of cricket, today’s MCC is an umbrella organisation for hundreds of participants in 12 sports – baseball, bowls, croquet, football, golf, hockey, lacrosse, netball, real tennis, target shooting, squash and tennis.
The club’s principal public role, however, remains the progressive management and development of one of the country’s greatest assets – the Melbourne Cricket Ground.