Mohsin Khan - Mohsin Khan 200 v England

Mohsin Khan became the first Pakistan batsman to hit a double-century at Lord's, when he scored 200 during his country’s victory over England in 1982. In what was Pakistan’s first-ever taste of success at Lord’s, Khan’s opening innings score set the perfect foundation for hi...

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L.R.D. Mendis - L.R.D. Mendis 111 v England

Duleep Mendis made a historic century at Lord’s during the summer of 1984 to claim a spot on the Honours Boards. Captaining Sri Lanka in their first-ever match at the Home of Cricket, Mendis initially watched team-mate Sidath Wettimuny score his side’s first hundred at Lord’...

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T.M. Dilshan - T.M. Dilshan 193 v England

Tillakaratne Dilshan claimed a spot on the Lord’s Honours Boards for the very first time during the summer of 2011 when Sri Lanka visited the Home of Cricket against England. England had posted an impressive total of 486 all out during their first innings, which required Sri...

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S. Wettimuny - S. Wettimuny 190 v England

Sidath Wettimuny became the first Sri Lankan to make the famous Lord’s Honours Boards when he hit 190 during the drawn five-day Test match versus England in 1984. England won the toss and elected to field, giving opening batsman Wettimuny the opportunity to shine during Sri ...

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D.P. Conway - D.P. Conway 200 v England

A Test Match bow at Lord’s is a fine achievement, but New Zealand’s Devon Conway secured the ultimate debut scoring a double-hundred, and making the seventh highest score in history in a player’s first Test. He also became only the sixth player to score a century on their Te...

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D.V.P. Wright - D.V.P. Wright 10-175 v South Africa

Doug Wright’s only ten-wicket haul came for England vs. South Africa at Lord’s in June 1947. In a game famous for the batting exploits of W J Edrich and D C S Compton, who put on a record partnership of 370 for the third-wicket, Wright, in one particularly successful spell o...

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1970: Garry Sobers scores 183 and takes 6-21 for Rest of the World XI

Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, the young Barbadian who broke Len Hutton’s Test record by scoring 365 not out against Pakistan in 1957-58, was not just a batsman. He was an all-rounder who could bowl left-arm fast-medium, orthodox slow left-arm or left-arm unorthodox as the situa...

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Emergency Services Exercise carried out at Lord’s Cricket Ground

MCC carried out a security exercise with the emergency services to test the evacuation procedures of Lord’s Cricket Ground, on Saturday 30 th March. The Metropolitan Police, London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade took part in the multi-agency test, arriving at the...

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1909: The Imperial Cricket Conference, now known as the International Cricket Council, is founded at

ICC, the governing body in world cricket is today the International Cricket Council and has its headquarters in Dubai. But its origins lay in a very different world at the height of the British Empire. It was at the end of South Africa’s first Test tour of England in 1907 th...

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