Leicestershire v Middlesex, Lord’s, County Championship, 30th August 2011 So, back to the Home of Cricket, which we last visited in High Summer. Today she was clad in her Autumnal garb … and we encounter two sides in quite different frames of mind. Middlesex have the chance to tap-tackle Northamptonshire’s heels as they approach the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lord’s’
Merciless Strauss Steamrollers Feeble Worms
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Andrew Strauss, Cricket, James Taylor, Josh Cobb, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Lord's, Middlesex County Cricket Club, Rob Taylor on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Disgusted or Amused? : A Rover’s View of Lord’s
Posted in Cricket, Sport, This England, tagged Angelo Matthews, Cricket, Drinking, England, Kevin Pietersen, Lord's, MCC, Sri Lanka, Stuart Broad on July 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
England v Sri Lanka, One-day International, Lord’s, 3rd July 2011 “Well, we shall meet again for the first match in 1945 ; between the Tavern and the Rover’s Stand ; just where that bloke in the green bow-tie said that Hendren was worth any six batsmen from the Oval and then read his newspaper upside [...]
Gentlemen and Players at Lord’s
Posted in Cricket, Sport, This England, tagged Cambridge University C.C., Cricket, E.H.D. Sewell, Lord's, Oxford University C.C., Paul Best, Summer, Zafar Ansari on July 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oxford v Cambridge, Lord’s, 26th June 2011 “To the modern reader who is too young to have seen the pageant of Lord’s at its best, i.e. in fine weather on Eton v Harrow, and Oxford v Cambridge match days, it is not easy to convey much, if anything, of the aesthetic pleasure which the sight [...]
A Longing for Lord’s – May 1943, by Charles Morgan
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Charles Morgan, Cricket, Lord's on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Quick – before the vision fades! This is by Charles Morgan, an English writer more popular in France than England. “So many of the toys we want are put away on the topmost shelf until the Germans are tired of their game, and perversely we long for them. For example, to be at Lord’s, for there [...]
Weightless magnificence : Foxes run riot in St John’s Wood
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, Floodlights, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Lord's, Middlesex County Cricket Club on August 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Leicestershire v Middlesex, Lord’s, County Championship, 9th August To Lord’s on Monday. I had been torn between Chesterfield (where Northants were playing Derbyshire) and Lord’s (where Leicestershire were playing Middlesex), but with one eye on the weather forecast, and mindful of the fact that I haven’t been to Lord’s this season nor last, I chose (against most instincts) [...]
Joanna Southcott’s box : the truth reveal’d
Posted in Church of England, Cricket, Religion, Sport, tagged Cricket, IPL, Joanna Southcott, Lalit Modi, Lord's, MCC, Mysteries, Panacea Society, Perplexity, Prophecy, Visions on March 7, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Last Thursday I happened to be visiting Lord’s cricket ground. As I was a little early for my appointment I went for a stroll in the churchyard over the road from the Nursery End, and made a discovery that I feel may be of some significance. In the churchyard, in fact right by the road, [...]
Abu Dhabi Day
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Abu Dhabi, Cricket, Lord's, MCC, Moaning, Spring on February 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This is the time of year when I begin to wish my life away a little, looking forward to the beginning of the cricket season. Easter too, obviously, but principally the cricket season. The season traditionally begins (more or less) with a fixture at Lord’s between the Champion County (of the previous season) and MCC. MCC, [...]
Binge-drinking at Lord’s
Posted in Arts, Biography, Cricket, Drink, Media, Newspapers, Smoking, Sport, tagged Binge-drinking, C.B. Fry, Cocktails, Cricket, Denzil Batchelor, Drinking, Liebfraumilch, Lord's, Wine on September 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
All first-class cricket grounds these days have a sign outside saying “Importation of alcohol strictly forbidden”. The only exception, I believe, is Lord’s itself, the MCC having obtained some kind of Special Dispensation. The consumption of alcohol, on the other hand, is positively encouraged, not least by the numerous posters advertising Marston’s – official beer [...]
It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk …
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Cricket, Smoking, Sport, This England, tagged Cricket, Leicestershire, Lord's, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!, Smoking on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The silliest place I’ve ever been told to stop smoking? I think it has to be here – http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Nat_West_media_centre_cropped.jpg (Any sign here of a “semi-enclosed space” – I think not.) To get the full picture you have to bear in mind that this was on the Friday afternoon of one of Middlesex’s County Championship fixtures, [...]
