Lord’s

Location: London, England
Capacity: 30,000
Home teams:

• Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
• Middlesex
• England National Cricket Team

Lord’s Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord’s, is one of the most famous cricket stadiums in the world. Located in St John’s Wood, London, it is named after its founder, Thomas Lord and owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). It is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the European Cricket Council (ECC) and, until August 2005, the International Cricket Council (ICC). Lord’s is widely referred to as the Home of Cricket and is home to the world’s oldest sporting museum.

Lord’s is not loacted on its original site; it is the third of three grounds that Lord established between 1787 and 1814. His first ground, now referred to as Lord’s Old Ground, was where Dorset Square now stands. His second ground, Lord’s Middle Ground, was used from 1811 to 1813 before being abandoned to make way for the construction through its outfield of the Regent’s Canal. The present Lord’s ground is about 250 yards (230 m) north-west of the site of the Middle Ground. The ground holds approximately 30,000 spectators.

In 2014 the current ground celebrated its two hundredth anniversary. The occasion was marked by a 50 overs cricket match, on 5 July between the MCC XI captained by Sachin Tendulkar and the Rest of the World XI led by Shane Warne.