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Lord’s plays host to an exciting week of cricket

As a sensational season of cricket gets into full swing, Lord’s will host five exciting matches across a highly-anticipated week at the Home of Cricket. Royal London One-Day Cup Final Defending champions Hampshire will take on Somerset in this year’s Royal London One-Day Cu...

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MCC Champion County match to be held in Sri Lanka in 2020

Marylebone Cricket Club has today announced that next season’s Champion County match against Essex will be held in Sri Lanka. The traditional curtain-raiser to the new English domestic season, which dates back to 1970 in its current guise, will be played at the Galle Interna...

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L.E.G. Ames - L.E.G. Ames 137 v New Zealand

Les Ames secured his first place on the iconic Honours Boards when he hit 137 versus New Zealand in the summer of 1931 at Lord’s. The touring side had scored 224 in their first innings and after a dismal start to England’s reply, Ames found himself at the crease with a tally...

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M.E. Trescothick - M.E. Trescothick 106 v Sri Lanka

 Not many would suspect that this fine century by Marcus Trescothick would be his last not only at Lord’s but also for England. A mental health-related issue ruled Trescothick out of England’s tour of India in February 2006 and his first return to the crease saw a dogged and...

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M.P. Vaughan - M.P. Vaughan 106 v New Zealand

Michael Vaughan wrote himself into the Test record books when he hit a sixth hundred from only 19 innings at Lord’s in 2008. His 106 equalled Graham Gooch's record of Test hundreds at the Home of Cricket and helped his side establish a 42-run lead on first innings after New ...

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I.R. Bell - I.R. Bell 199 v South Africa

Ian Bell fell one short of what would have been a sublime double century on day two of the first Test versus South Africa in 2008. Up against a fierce bowling attack in the shape of Dale Steyn, Makhaya Ntini and Morne Morkel, Bell displayed some superb shots in an innings th...

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J.E. Root - J.E. Root 200* v Sri Lanka

Joe Root, at 23 years and 165 days, became the youngest Englishman, since David Gower in 1979, to hit a double century, when he scored 200* vs Sri Lanka in 2014. In what was his second hundred at the Home of Cricket, Root hit his double-century off 298 balls, scoring 16 four...

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G.P. Swann - G.P. Swann 5-44 v Australia

England were simply ruthless at Lord’s against Australia in 2013, and the bowling of Graeme Swann was key in dismissing the visitors for only 128 in their first innings, as England took a 2-0 lead in the Ashes series. Aided by a century from Ian Bell, England made 361 all ou...

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