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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....

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...

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

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...

1820: William Ward scores the first double-century in first-class cricket

1820: William Ward scores the first double-century in first-class cricket

William Ward is not a name familiar to most cricket fans these days, but he is one of those men whom we must thank for the existence of Lord’s today. By 1823, the Ground’s esteemed founder, Thomas Lord, was a 67 year-old man in search of a retirement plan. Cricket and his as...

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...

2012: Lord's hosts the Olympic Archery tournament

2012: Lord's hosts the Olympic Archery tournament

Cricket has only featured once in the Olympics - at Paris in 1900 when the amateur team Dorset Wanderers defeated a Parisian XI in a one-off match. But cricket grounds themselves do have a closer involvement with Olympic history. Most notably, the Melbourne Cricket Ground se...

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...

1805: The first Eton v Harrow match takes place at Lord's

1805: The first Eton v Harrow match takes place at Lord's

The annual Eton v Harrow match is the longest-running regular fixture at Lord’s. The first match, in 1805, arose out of a challenge issued by the Harrow boys on 20 June 1805. It was four months and one day before the Battle of Trafalgar: “The gentlemen of Harrow School requ...

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...

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...