The MCC is a famous cricket club in London. The letters stand for Marylebone Cricket Club. It began in 1787 and its home is Lord’s, a cricket ground in North London that people call the home of cricket. For a long time the MCC did not only play the game; it also wrote the laws of cricket — the rules the whole world used. Today international cricket has other bodies in charge, but the MCC still looks after those laws, and Lord’s is still a place every cricket fan knows. In English news about sport, “the MCC” almost always means this club, not a random set of three letters.