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1938: Wally Hammond scores 240 for England against Australia

1938: Wally Hammond scores 240 for England against Australia

In almost any other age, Walter Hammond would have been acknowledged as the greatest batsman of his generation. Nothing seemed more certain than that he would dominate cricket for a decade after he scored 905 Test runs at an average of 113.12 on England’s 1928-29 tour of Aus...

1928: Learie Constantine scores 103 and takes 7-57 for West Indies against Middlesex

1928: Learie Constantine scores 103 and takes 7-57 for West Indies against Middlesex

Cricket has boasted few more remarkable life stories than that of Learie Constantine. Born into a cricketing family in Trinidad, he quickly made a name on the island as a genuinely fast bowler, hard-hitting batsman and outstanding cover fielder. After two successful tours of...

1998: The Women's Ashes are created in a ceremony in the Harris Garden

1998: The Women's Ashes are created in a ceremony in the Harris Garden

The women’s Ashes, created in 1998, is a hollow wooden ball, containing the ashes of a miniature bat signed by both the Australian and England teams and those of a copy of the Women's Cricket Association rules and constitution, burnt in a ceremony at Lord's. The ceremony was...

2019: England beat New Zealand to win the Men's World Cup

2019: England beat New Zealand to win the Men's World Cup

England really should have had a head start when it came to World Cup cricket. The first ever limited overs tournament was the Gillette Cup, played in England in 1963, and it was the end of the decade before the rest of the world began to follow its example. Only 18 One-Day ...

1964: Fred Trueman takes his fifth five-wicket haul at Lord's

1964: Fred Trueman takes his fifth five-wicket haul at Lord's

The perfect fast-bowler’s combination of aggression and skill characterised Fred Trueman. Genuinely fast in his youth, as his career progressed, he learned to rely on movement off the pitch and in the air, becoming the first bowler to take 300 Test wickets in 1964. ‘Fiery Fr...

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...

2017: Anya Shrubsole takes match-winning 6-46 in the women's World Cup Final

2017: Anya Shrubsole takes match-winning 6-46 in the women's World Cup Final

Anya Shrubsole was clearly a bowler to watch from her earliest performances in the England team. Making her debut in both T20 and One-Day Internationals in 2008, she won the award for Most Promising Young Women’s Cricketer at the end of the season. Just over three years late...

1974: Derek Underwood takes match figures of 13-71 for England

1974: Derek Underwood takes match figures of 13-71 for England

A ‘slow’ left-arm spinner of more like medium pace, Derek Underwood’s international career lasted from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. He was the leading spin bowler in England for two decades, forming a deadly combination with wicket-keeper Alan Knott both at Test and cou...

2014: Kumar Sangakkara scores Test and ODI centuries at Lord's within a fortnight

2014: Kumar Sangakkara scores Test and ODI centuries at Lord's within a fortnight

Kumar Sangakkara looked like becoming one of those great players who never made it onto the Test Honours Boards at Lord’s before striking 147 on his final Test appearance at the Ground in 2014. His last two Test Matches at Lord’s saw him play as a batsman only, but on his fi...

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...