Lord's Cricket Ground

Lord's Cricket Ground is a cricket stadium in London. It is considered the most important and most traditional address for cricket world. This applied in 1814 venue is located on the St. John 's Wood Road west of Regent's Park in the borough of City of Westminster (London NW8 8QN ) and provides about 30,000 spectators. Apart from the actual playing surface and the stands, the plant comprises still a slightly smaller driving range and a cricket school, a museum, the club house, offices and several shops and restaurants.

Lord's is the home of the Marylebone Cricket Club, also the seat of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB ) and the European Cricket Council (ECC).

History

The current site is the third site. Between 1787 and 1810, Lord's was near present-day Dorset Square, from 1811 to 1813 in Regent's Park. The name comes from its founder, Thomas Lord, back, a well-known cricketer of his time and later also quite successful businessman.

In 1967, a vorolympisches hockey tournament took place here from October 15 to 22, attended by 12 teams of the 1968 Olympic Games took part in Mexico City: Australia, Belgium, West Germany, East Germany, France, Great Britain, India, Japan, New Zealand, Netherlands, Spain and Pakistan. Were wearing, as was customary, 30 friendlies. Each team had five games, a total score or table was not created.

At the 2012 Olympic Games here the competitions were held in archery. For two grandstands for 4,500 spectators were set up on the playing surface, between which the athletes fought out their competitions. The target disks were placed in front of the media center.