Cranleigh School in Surrey will host an MCC spirit of cricket evening involving current and former England cricketers.

Chris Cowdrey, the former England captain, will host the event and will be joined by Monty Panesar, Middlesex captain Ed Smith and the national selector, Geoff Miller, in discussing the spirit of cricket and issues affecting the game.

The evening at Cranleigh is a spin-off of the annual Cowdrey Lecture, which was first delivered by Richie Benaud in 2001.

"I'm proud of my father's achievement, along with Ted Dexter, of setting out a vision for the spirit of cricket,�.� said Cowdrey. �..It was terrific for this to become part of the Laws of cricket but the challenge now is to make this relevant to cricketers of the future. Cranleigh School has set us the challenge of having a fun evening which also gets to grips with some of the big questions facing the game today.�.�