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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

1972: Bob Massie takes match figures of 16-137 for Australia

1972: Bob Massie takes match figures of 16-137 for Australia

Perhaps cricket’s greatest ‘one-hit wonder’, Perth-born Bob Massie hadn’t yet played a Test Match for Australia when he was picked for the 1972 tour of England. He made his Test debut at Lord’s having missed out on the first Test at Old Trafford, which England won by 89 runs...

2009: Pakistan wins the Men’s and England wins the Women's World T20 Finals on the same day

2009: Pakistan wins the Men’s and England wins the Women's World T20 Finals on the same day

T20 cricket went from unfamiliar new format to World Cup Final in just four years. The longer limited overs game had taken 12 years to reach the same stage of development. By the time the second men’s tournament was held in England in 2009, T20 matches had become an establis...