Lord's

Lord's Cricket Ground
The Home of Cricket
	Lord's current logo
	The Pavilion
Ground information
Location	St John's Wood, London, England
Coordinates	51°31′46″N 0°10′22″W / 51.5294°N 0.1727°W
Establishment	1814
Capacity	31,100
Owner	Marylebone Cricket Club
Tenants	England and Wales Cricket Board
	End names
	Nursery End ; Pavilion End
International information
First Test	21–23 July 1884:; England v Australia
Last Test	28 June – 2 July 2023:; England v Australia
First ODI	26 August 1972:; England v Australia
Last ODI	15 September 2023:; England v New Zealand
First T20I	5 June 2009:; England v Netherlands
Last T20I	29 July 2018:; Nepal v Netherlands
First WODI	4 August 1976:; England v Australia
Last WODI	24 September 2022:; England v India
First WT20I	21 June 2009:; England v New Zealand
Last WT20I	8 July 2023:; England v Australia
Team information
Marylebone Cricket Club	(1814 – present)
Middlesex	(1877 – present)
	As of 8 July 2023; Source: ESPNcricinfo

Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the ICC Europe and, until August 2005, the International Cricket Council (ICC). Lord's is widely referred to as the Home of Cricket^[2] and is home to the world's oldest sporting museum.^[3]

Lord's today is not 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 can hold 31,100 spectators, the capacity having increased between 2017 and 2022 as part of MCC's ongoing redevelopment plans.

^ "Lord's cleared to have full capacity for England-Pakistan ODI". The Cricket Paper. 2 July 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
^ "Lord's". Cricinfo. Archived from the original on 11 September 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
^ see MCC museum Archived 12 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine webpage

[1] "Lord's cleared to have full capacity for England-Pakistan ODI". The Cricket Paper. 2 July 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2022.

[2] "Lord's". Cricinfo. Archived from the original on 11 September 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2009.

[3] see MCC museum Archived 12 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine webpage

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