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Father Time (Lord's) Father Time. (Lord's) Father Time is a weathervane at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, in the shape of Father Time removing the bails from a wicket. The full weathervane is 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) tall, with the figure of Father Time standing at 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m). [1] It was given to Lord's in 1926 by the architect of the ...
Father Time (Lord's) is a weather vane at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, in the shape of Father Time. Father Time is the central figure in Lorado Taft 's 1922 Chicago fountain, Fountain of Time . Father Time, complete with scythe, is the central figure in the Rotunda Clock by John Flanagan , located in the rotunda of the Thomas Jefferson ...
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 ...
Lord's slope. Coordinates: 51.530°N 0.172°W. (Redirected from Lord's Slope) The Lord's slope. The Lord's slope is a geographical gradient at Lord's Cricket Ground in London, England. The slope is in the cricket pitch and runs from the north end of the ground to the south end with a drop of 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in). [1]
Last WT20I. 20 December 2022: India v Australia. As of 20 December 2022. Source: ESPNcricinfo. The Brabourne Stadium is an international cricket stadium in Mumbai in Western India, built in the British Bombay era. It is the home ground of the Mumbai men's and women's cricket teams. It can accommodate 50,000 people for sports matches.
Lord's became Middlesex's home ground in 1869. It is often referred to as "the home of cricket". Middlesex County Cricket Club was established on 2 February 1864; before then there had been an informal county team, which had played first-class cricket from 1787.
The Oval has been the home ground of Surrey County Cricket Club since it was opened in 1845. [5][6][7] It was the first ground in England to host international Test cricket in September 1880. [8][9] The final Test match of the English season is traditionally played there.
Lord's is widely referred to as the "home of cricket". [1] Lord's has hosted 130 Test matches, the first of these was in 1884 when England played the touring Australian team. [2] The first One Day International (ODI) played at the ground, in 1972, was also between England and Australia, 56 ODIs have been played at the ground in total. [3]