MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lectures
The 2012 lecture by former England captain Tony Greig was the 12th in the series. The annual event is held in the Lord's Nursery Pavilion.
2012 - Tony Greig
26 June 2012
Introduction mp3 4MB – ogg 3MB (6:19)
Lecture - mp3 24MB – ogg 19MB (41:46)
Discussion (Mark Nicholas, Derek Underwood, Stuart Broad and Cowdrey Lecturer Tony Greig)
mp3 37MB –
ogg 19MB (40:23)
2011 - Kumar Sangakkara
4 July 2011
Kumar Sangakkara (1h02m) mp3 lo (14MB) – mp3 hi (35MB) – ogg (26MB) – transcript (pdf)
Introduction by Christopher Martin-Jenkins, MCC President (5 mins)
mp3 (3MB) –
ogg (2MB)
Mark Nicholas thanks Kumar for his lecture and introduces a panel discussion (32 mins)
Panel: Michael Holding, Clare Connor, Andrew Strauss and Kumar Sangakkara mp3 (19MB) –
ogg (13MB)
Entire event (interval commentary by Ralph Dellor) (1h42m)
mp3 (59MB) –
ogg (41MB)
Watch video from the evening on Youtube
2010 - Imran Khan
19 July 2010
Full event: Stephen Lamb introduces proceedings from the Nursery Pavilion at Lord's, beginning with a welcome by MCC President John Barclay LISTEN (1h35m, 66MB)
Imran Khan - 2010 Cowdrey Lecture LISTEN (31m13s, 21MB)
Mark Nicholas leads a discussion between Steve Finn, Jeff Thompson, Graham Onions & lecturer Imran Khan LISTEN (45m40s, 31 MB)
2009 - Adam Gilchrist
24 June 2009
Full event: Introduction by Derek Underwood (MCC President), ICC Hall of Fame - Chris Cowdrey accepts cap on behalf of his father Colin, followed by the 9th Cowdrey Lecture by Adam Gilchrist & discussion led by Mark Nicholas. (Commentary by Ralph Dellor) LISTEN (1h42m, 47MB)
Adam Gilchrist's lecture LISTEN (36m, 16.7MB)
Discussion Chaired and introduced by Mark Nicholas LISTEN (43m, 19.9MB)
ICC Hall of Fame Chris Cowdrey accepts a cap on behalf of his father Colin LISTEN (3m, 1.6MB)
2008 - Desmond Tutu
10 June 2008
Listen to a full recording of the lecture and the subsequent discussion (mp3 file, 1h12m, 33MB)
Introduction by Mike Brearley, MCC President (mp3 file, 4m, 2MB)
Desmond Tutu Lecture (mp3 file, 26m, 12.2MB)
Discussion: Mark Nicholas, Andrew Strauss, Barry Richards, Mike Brearley (mp3 file, 37m, 17.2MB)
2007 - Christopher Martin-Jenkins
16 July 2007
Listen to an archive of the full evening mp3 download (38mb)
Introduction by MCC President Doug Insole mp3 download (2mb)
Christopher Martin-Jenkins' Cowdrey Lecture in full mp3 download (19mb)
Discussion: Mark Nicholas, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Ravi Shastri & Alastair Cook mp3 download (15mb)
2006 - Martin Crowe
11 July 2006
Archive of the full evening mp3 download (35mb)
Martin Crowe lecture (introduced by MCC President) mp3 (0h55m) (25mb)
Question and answer session chaired by Mark Nicholas, with Martin Crowe, Paul Collingwood & Ramiz Raja mp3 (0h32m) (22mb)
2005 - Geoffrey Boycott
19 July 2005
Archive of the full evening mp3 download (58mb)
(Introduction by MCC President Tom Graveney, followed by Geoffrey Boycott's Cowdrey Lecture
and Q&A session with Mark Nicholas, Geoffrey Boycott, Tony Greig and Rodney Hogg.
Geoff Boycott Lecture mp3 download (31mb)
Question and Answer Session mp3 download (25mb)
2004 - Clive Lloyd
19 July 2004
Clive Lloyd delivers the 2004 Colin Cowdrey Lecture on the Spirit of
Cricket (0h39m, 9mb)
Mark Nicholas chairs a debate on the speech, with Alec
Stewart, Rudi Koertzen and Clive Lloyd himself (0h38m, 9mb)
Archive
of the full evening (1h20m, 19mb)
