Marylebone Cricket Club MCC was founded in 1787 a fact gathered from a poster for a cricket match in 1837 announcing MCCs Golden jubilee. Before then, however, aristocrats and noblemen played their cricket in White Conduit Fields at Islington, London. Like shooting and foxhunting, cricket was considered a manly sport for the elite with plenty of gambling opportunities to boot. Around £20,000 was bet on a series of games between Old Etonians and England in 175.

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