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2000: England beat West Indies in the 100th Lord's Test

2000: England beat West Indies in the 100th Lord's Test

By the time the 100 th Test Match at Lord’s took place, West Indies were no longer the formidable team of the 1980s. But they still had Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose to share the new ball and a batting line-up boasting Brian Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Jimmy Adams....

1999: The new Media Centre is completed

1999: The new Media Centre is completed

In 1999 the Lord’s skyline acquired a dramatic addition in the shape of the new Media Centre. With the Ground scheduled to host the 1999 ICC Men’s World Cup Final, it was clear that the existing media facilities, concentrated in the Warner Stand and the north turret of the P...

1890: Thomas Verity's new Pavilion is completed

1890: Thomas Verity's new Pavilion is completed

The Lord’s Pavilion was designed by architect Thomas Verity and built over the winter of 1889-90 at a cost of £21,000. Verity was one of the leading architects of the late Victorian period, renowned in particular for his theatre work, having designed among others the Royalty...

1982: Pakistan beat England to claim their first Lord's Test victory

1982: Pakistan beat England to claim their first Lord's Test victory

Most new Test playing nations have to wait some time before they can claim a win away from home against more experienced opposition. This wasn’t true of Pakistan. On their very first tour of England in 1954 they forced a dramatic win in a low-scoring match at the Oval to dra...

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...

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...

2016: Pakistan's Misbal-ul-Haq scores a maiden Lord's century aged 42

2016: Pakistan's Misbal-ul-Haq scores a maiden Lord's century aged 42

The reaction of most batsmen to reaching a Test Match century is usually quite predictable. A handshake with their batting partner, a raising of the bat to acknowledge the applause of the crowd and his teammates. When Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq reached his tenth Test hun...

2001: Richie Benaud delivers the first MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture

2001: Richie Benaud delivers the first MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture

Cricket’s rise as a popular sport in the 18 th century left little room for the spirit of the game. It was a vehicle for serious gambling and match-fixing, with intimidation and outright cheating far from unknown. But by the beginning of the 19 th century this was beginnin...

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...

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...