The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has admitted it must “act quickly” to improve pitches at Lord’s after it was heavily criticised for the surface produced for England’s first Test victory over New Zealand.England completed an emphatic 115-run victory shortly before lunch on day four, with rain having interrupted all three previous days.It was a convincing performance from Ben Stokes’ team in their first outing since the winter’s humiliating Ashes defeat to Australia but the surface was the main talking point.Forty wickets fell in just 166 overs, with variable bounce and extravagant seam movement combining to produce torrid conditions for batting.Just two players recorded fifties — England’s Harry Brook and Emilio Gay — and four different bowlers took five wickets or more in an innings, the first time that has happened in a Lord’s Test.England captain Stokes says pitches like the one produced this week are damaging to Test cricket.“It was an inconsistent pitch and it was tough because as a batter you never feel in and don’t know what’s going to happen off the wicket,” he told reporters. “When you talk about the future of Test cricket it’s not just a case these days of batters losing the ability to dig in. It can be wickets like that.“It was no-one’s fault. Nobody meant to do it but you want a Test to be played over as much time as possible and without rain that wasn’t going to happen this week.“I get asked the question all the time about the longevity of this format and saving Test cricket and those conditions weren’t ideal for the game.