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    Quaffing-good day out at Lord’s

    Oct 09, 2019 3 minutes

    On June 20, 1805, the gentlemen of Eton College received an invitation from the gentlemen of Harrow School requesting “the honour of trying their skill at cricket on Wednesday, July 31 at Lord’s Cricket Ground. A speedy answer, declaring whether the time and place be convenient, will oblige.”

    The gentlemen did doth oblige, or something, and the first ever Eton-v-Harrow cricket match commenced, a month before Admiral Nelson’s fleet defeated the French Armada in the Battle of Trafalgar.

    Lord’s is like this; there are great, fat lumps of history

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