Grounds/Venues Profile
Lord’s
St John’s Wood Road, London, England
Lord’s Cricket Ground,
St John’s Wood,
London NW8 8QN.
(Phone: 020-7286-8011)
In spite of a major rebuilding programmed in new years, Lord’s leftovers a cricket ground as opposed to the largely unfriendly stadiums many other leading venues which have become. Playing in a Test at Lord’s, still extensively regarded as the home of cricket, remains to many cricketers the peak of a career.
The third of Thomas Lord’s grounds was unlocked in 1814 and soon became the major venue as cricket became the world’s leading sport in the 19th century. While cricket has been go beyond by other international events, and the game itself has become obviously commercial, Lord’s has keep hold of its place as the holy home.
The ground is confidentially have by the Marylebone Cricket Club (membership 18,000), is the home to the ECB and, from 1909 to 2005, the ICC.
The leading building is the terracotta-colored pavilion, built in 1890 and still one of world sport’s most identifiable structures. Going round the ground in a clockwise direction, next to the pavilion is the Warner Stand, opened in 1958 and named after the well-known player and administrator Sir Pelham “Plum” Warner.
The chief grandstand was built in 1997 and restored the architecturally single structure designed by Sir Herbert Baker which was opened in time for the 1926 Ashes Test. Baker presented MCC with Father Time, the weathervane which summit his creation until it was moved to the other side of the ground in 1996.
The remote end – the Nursery – is enclosed by the Compton and Edrich Stands, a pair of low-level two-tier stands built in 1990 which are extraordinarily similar to those they replaced. Legend has it that Gubby Allen, MCC’s long-time self-appointed protector, steadfastly refused to allow any larger structure as it would have blocked the view of the Nursery and the tree-lined park on the additional side of the Wellington Road.
The Nursery itself is named after Henderson’s agricultural nursery which was obtained in 1887. It houses a second playing field which is used for end-of-season Cross Arrows matches as well as the women’s Varsity match. The prized Mound Stand was opened in 1987. Its precursor, constructed in 1898, was on the site of the old tennis courts and at one time restricted a bakery with a small underground railway to take create to a variety of points of auction.
The Tavern (1967) is the least distinguished of the stands and typifies the bland functionality of the 1960s. Until the late 1980s spectators could stand on the concourse in front of the stand and watch proceedings, but increasing rowdyism ended that. The previous Tavern, an ivy-clad building, was much loved by patrons.
The final stand before returning the the pavilion is the Allen Stand (formerly the Q Stand), a rather diminutive in-fill which serves as a pavilion overflow on big-match days and Middlesex’s club room at other times.
Also or formerly known as Lord’s Cricket Ground
Established 1814
Named after Thomas Lord
Capacity 30000
Floodlights Yes, 2009
End names Pavilion End, Nursery End
Home team(s) Marylebone Cricket Club, Middlesex
Other sports Lacrosse, Hockey, Archery (2012 Olympics)
Curator Mick Hunt
Current local time 10:31, Thu May 21, 2009 (UTC +0100)
Kennington Oval
London, England
The Oval Cricket Ground,
Kennington,
London, SE 11 5SS
(Phone: 020-7582-6660)
This is where it all starts. The first-ever Test on English earth was take part in here in September 1880, resultant in an England win over Australia by five wickets, with WG Grace scoring a hundred on entrance, and this is where a Test series in England usually ends.
More appropriately, this is the significant place where the myth of the Ashes was born a couple of years after the opening Test, in August 1882. England, run after only 85 to win, is drooping from 51 for 2 to 78 all out. The subsequently morning The Sporting Times published its well-known ridicule obituary and the legend was born.
The Oval has spectator many historic matches. England’s theatrical one-wicket win in 1902 enthused by Gilbert Jessop’s amazing hundred; Australia’s 701 in 1930 as Don Bradman (244) and Bill Ponsford (266) put on 451 for the second wicket; England’s 903 for 7 as they thrash Australia by an innings and 579 runs in 1938; Bradman’s departure duck in 1948; Denis Compton achieve the boundary which meant England recover the Ashes in 1953; Michael Holding’s 14 wickets on a featherbed in 1976; Devon Malcolm’s 9 for 57 against South Africa in 1994.
Owned by the Duchy of Cornwall (who is the Prince of Wales, hence his feathers have emerged on Surrey’s badge since 1915), The Oval came about in the 1790s when an oval road was placed round what was then a cabbage patch. When a succeeding market garden failed, the land was opened as a cricket ground in 1845 after 10,000 turfs were brought in from Tooting Common. It has been Surrey H.Q. ever since, even though it has been well exterior the county boundary for a lot of years.
It has hosted numerous other significant sporting events and can claim to be the most important all-purpose sports land in the world. It staged the first FA Cup final in 1872 and the subsequent year the first England international (against Scotland). It was the residence of the FA Cup final between 1874 and 1892. In 1876 it staged to the first England v Wales and England v Scotland rugby internationals, and in 1877 to rugby’s Varsity match. In adding, it has observer rock performance, ice skating and the now conventional end-of-season Aussie Rules match. It was also a impermanent home to hostage in journey during the Second World War.
The land itself is subject by the gasometers on the east side. Until quite newly the pavilion, built in 1890, and the Vauxhall stand were the only arrangement of any meaning, with banks of open and quite painful seating making up the rest of the viewer facilities. More new enlargement, culminating in a £25 million development which in progress in 2004. It was much wanted as the venue had suffered from underinvestment and had a emotion of decompose about it.
Also or formerly known as The Oval; The AMP Oval; The Foster’s Oval; The Brit Oval
Established 1845
Capacity 23500
Floodlights Yes, 2009
End names Pavilion End, Vauxhall End
Home team(s) England, Surrey
Current local time 11:34, Thu May 21, 2009 (UTC +0100)
Trent Bridge
Nottingham, England
Trent Bridge,
Nottingham,
Nottinghamshire
NG2 6AG
(Phone: 0115 982 3000)
Trent Bridge dramatic its primary Test in 1899 and is a usual, and accepted, fixture on the international circuit. It used to be the common house of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and Notts County Football Club, but when the football and cricket period were considered to have become too extend beyond (as far back as 1910) the football club enthused a couple of hundred yards left to Meadow Lane. Trent Bridge has been home to some of the premium cricketers in the world; Gary Sobers, Clive Rice and Richard Hadlee have all elegance the ground and left an enduring spot on its history. It has hosted some unforgettable moment of international cricket; in 1965 Graeme and Peter Pollock led South Africa a famed triumph; Graeme made a century that is still considered one of the best innings played by a South African. In 1989 Mark Taylor and Geoff Marsh gave the England hit a day to overlook, when they batted through the first day, reaching 301 without failure. The ground has undergone a number of important growths over the years. The office hunk that is as much a part of Trent Bridge as the pavilion was built next a bend of the land was sold off to create money, and more freshly the Radcliffe Road and Fox Road stands, with their fashionable structural design, have made Trent Bridge one of the most excellent screening grounds in the nation. The Trent Bridge Inn is one of the finest venues for a post-match drink.
Also or formerly known as Trent Bridge Ground
Established 1841
Named after River Trent
Capacity 15,350 (to be 17,000)
Floodlights Yes, installed in 2008
End names Pavilion End, Radcliffe Road End
Home team(s) Nottinghamshire
Other sports Football (Nottm Forest and Notts County) 1860-1910
Current local time 11:53, Thu May 21, 2009 (UTC +0100)