1937: Patsy Hendren appears in a first-class match at Lord's for the last time

One of the game’s most prolific run-scorers whose swift footwork made him particularly adept against spin, ‘Patsy’ Hendren is a true legend of Lord’s. Third on the all-time list for first-class runs worldwide and behind only Jack Hobbs in number of centuries, Hendren amassed...

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1972: Troon win the first Village Cup Final

Surely every active cricketer dreams of playing at least once in their lives at Lord’s. It is a dream that few can realise, but since 1972 thousands of cricketers across the country begin their season with a genuine hope that this might be their year. The Village Cup was the...

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1929: Middlesex's Gubby Allen takes all ten wickets in an innings

On the morning of 15 June 1929, fast bowling all-rounder George Oswald “Gubby” Allen was due to play at Lord’s for Middlesex against reigning champions Lancashire. He was late. After leaving university, Allen had taken a job in the City of London and played cricket on a stri...

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1963: The first Gillette Cup Final is held at Lord's

By the start of the 1960s the post-war boom in county cricket was long over. Although the 1950s had seen an England team dominant in Test Matches, at domestic level the game was increasingly seen as stagnant, over cautious and lacking in entertainment value. The competing le...

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2015: England beat New Zealand in a Test that included 1,610 runs

New Zealand arrived in England in the spring of 2015 with a reputation as a difficult side to beat. In the previous 12 months. They had earned creditable draws in Test series away to West Indies and Pakistan and had rolled over Sri Lanka comfortably at home. Key batsman Kane...

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1972: Australia beat England in the first Men's ODI held at Lord's

The first ever One-Day International took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1971, a last-minute replacement for a washed out Ashes Test. It would be more than 18 months before any further ODI cricket took place, but this time the matches were part of the official sche...

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2017: England's James Anderson takes his 500th Test wicket

Few bowlers have had as much success at Lord’s as James Anderson. In 23 Test Matches at the Ground, he has bowled 5,439 balls and taken 103 wickets at an average of 23.89, making him the leading Test wicket-taker at the Home of Cricket. One of those cricketers who just seems...

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1976: The first Women's ODI is held at Lord's

There was a time, still within living memory, when the Pavilion at Lord’s had very much the atmosphere of an exclusive gentlemen’s club. There were no women Members of MCC and on match days even female staff members were expected to avoid popular areas like the Long Room. Th...

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1939: George Headley scores a century in both innings for West Indies

There was always a strong possibility that West Indies 1939 tour of England would be disrupted. But the events most likely to cause this disruption were not the territorial ambitions of Nazi Germany but the machinations of the West Indies Cricket Board. The success of their ...

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Lost Property

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