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1977: First Indoor School at Lord's officially opened

1977: First Indoor School at Lord's officially opened

Lord’s has witnessed more than 200 years of cricket. For more than a century, it has also been home to formal coaching programmes, helping develop the stars of tomorrow as well as offering practice facilities to those of today. It all began in 1901, when the Club found itsel...

2009: Netherlands defeat England in the Men's World T20 tournament

2009: Netherlands defeat England in the Men's World T20 tournament

The global spread of cricket is usually associated with British imperial rule, with the modern game thought to be restricted to the nations of the Commonwealth. But there are other countries with long cricket histories which do not correspond to this picture. The Netherlands...

2021: The new Compton and Edrich Stands are completed

2021: The new Compton and Edrich Stands are completed

The original Compton and Edrich stands opened in 1991 and replaced the ‘G’ and ‘H’ stands which had stood at the Nursery End since 1924. G and H were designed by Sir Herbert Baker, architect of the second Grand Stand and the Grace Gates. Known as the ‘free seats’ they became...

1974: England beat India by the largest margin in a Lord's Test

1974: England beat India by the largest margin in a Lord's Test

India arrived in England for their 1974 tour as a team that was coming of age in international cricket. The ebullient captaincy of ‘Tiger’ Pataudi in the late 1960s together with the emergence of their four-pronged spin attack made them formidable opponents on home soil. Und...

1984: Gordon Greenidge scores 214* to help West Indies beat England

1984: Gordon Greenidge scores 214* to help West Indies beat England

West Indies fans termed it the 'blackwash' summer. The year that Clive Lloyd’s West Indies confirmed their status as one of the greatest teams ever to have played the game.. Looking back, it seems hard to credit that England ever thought they might have a chance. True, they ...

1868: Aboriginal Cricketers are the first team from Australia to play at Lord's

1868: Aboriginal Cricketers are the first team from Australia to play at Lord's

The All-aboriginal team was the first Australian cricket team to tour the UK and the first visit by Indigenous Australians to gain widespread awareness in this country. The tour began in front of 7,000 people at the Oval and their displays of `traditional skills’, put on bef...

1877: Middlesex County Cricket Club make Lord's their home ground

1877: Middlesex County Cricket Club make Lord's their home ground

Ever since its formation in 1864, Middlesex County Cricket Club had struggled to find a permanent home. Occasional matches had been played at Lord’s in the early years but the club seemed to prefer using the rather more rustically-named Cattle Market Ground in Islington. Fro...

2010: Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad put on 332 for England against Pakistan

2010: Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad put on 332 for England against Pakistan

There can’t have been too many occasions in Test history when a side has batted first, slumped to 102 for 7 and still ended up winning by an innings. Unusually, Lord’s hosted the last match of a four Test series between England and Pakistan in 2010 and it was a match that we...

1914: Lord's is used by the War Office for the accommodation of troops

1914: Lord's is used by the War Office for the accommodation of troops

The outbreak of the Great War in 1914 brought to an end cricket’s ‘golden age’, a period lasting a quarter of a century during which the game established itself beyond question as England’s pre-eminent sport. The spread of county cricket had made the game truly national, and...

1987: Four players make centuries in MCC's bicentenary Test

1987: Four players make centuries in MCC's bicentenary Test

When the teams were announced for MCC’s Bicentenary match in August 1987, it was clear that this was a game the top names in cricket wanted to play in. Almost all the greats were present and a capacity crowd there to see it, with the newly-opened Mound Stand resplendent in t...