Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie and his former Australia team-mate Justin Langer have been awarded honorary life membership of Marylebone Cricket Club.
The pair, who won seven Ashes series between them, join former Baggy Green team-mates Steve Waugh, Shane Warne and Ricky Ponting in being honoured by MCC, who own Lord's and are custodians of the laws of the game.
Now retired from playing duties, both are title-winning coaches with Gillespie leading the White Rose to the LV= County Championship title last summer and Langer lifting this year's Big Bash League trophy with Perth Scorchers.
Gillespie, who played his county cricket for Yorkshire and Glamorgan, said: "I am very humbled and thankful to MCC for the invitation to become an honorary life member, and I was only too happy to accept.
"Lord's is a fantastic venue to come to both as a player and a coach it's a very special feeling to be invited to be part of MCC."
It's a pleasure to welcome these two @CricketAus greats to MCC as Honorary Life Members: http://t.co/HLsYF800RTpic.twitter.com/OXWZRRxp7T
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Langer, who featured for Middlesex and Somerset, added: "It is a great privilege to accept honorary life membership of MCC and I am thrilled to have been recognised in this way.
"Playing at Lord's was always a very special experience when I represented both Australia and Middlesex and it will be a pleasure to come back as an MCC honorary life member."