Painting by Matthew Cook

The Marylebone Cricket Club (the MCC or LordŐs) is the worldŐs cricket headquarters and has an atmosphere all of its own. Watching the game played on this sacred green turf is an unmissable, hugely beguiling experience - the dull clack of ball-on-bat, pink-faced men lazing the summerŐs day away on picnic rugs, sunhats on heads, watching the cream-clad figures darting about the pitch, amongst the clink of cutlery and glasses of gin and tonic.It doesnŐt matter whether the English team win or lose (and they usually lose to Australia), itŐs the ritual and the code that counts. Even if the traditions of LordŐs change - the cricket, a representative of Englishness, will always remain the same.

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