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copyright to the Laws of Cricket. It is the MCC which makes changes to,
or updates the rules of cricket.
2. As well as being the 'home to cricket', Lord's is also the home ground
to the England and Wales Cricket Board, the Middlesex Country Cricket
Club, the European Cricket Club and up until 2005, the International
Cricket Council whose official quarters have since moved to Dubai in the
United Arab Emirates. The move came after a request to the British
Government to make an exception for the ICC to not pay corporation tax
was denied.
Lord's was the venue for the Archery competition at the 2012 London
Olympics. (Getty)
10. The longest running cricket fixture at Lord's (an older ground, not the
current ground) is the annual match between Eton College and Harrow
School. This great sporting schoolboy rivalry started in 1805.