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Actor and writer Stephen Fry will become the next president of the Marylebone Cricket Club.
Fry, 64, will take over from former England captain Clare Connor, who nominated him for the role, on 1 October 2022.
The broadcaster and comedian is a lifelong cricket fan and has been an MCC member since 2011.
“I am honoured and proud to be nominated as the next president of MCC,” said Fry.
“It is a club that is known throughout the world for what it represents in the game and to be gifted the opportunity to perform this role is truly humbling.”
Based at Lord’s, which it owns, the MCC acts as custodian and arbiter of the laws and spirit of cricket.
Fry delivered the 20th MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture last year, becoming only the second non-cricketing figure after the late archbishop Desmond Tutu to do so since the event started in 2001.
Connor became the MCC’s first female president since it was founded…
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