Lord's - The Home of Cricket (1991)

Lord’s - The Home of Cricket. Presented by E. W. Swanton and Tim Rice. Lord’s, home of the MCC, is the most revered cricketing ground in the world. Great players have saved their best match-winning performances for Lord’s - Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers and Ian Botham some of the most impressive. To Viv Richards and Clive Lloyd it seems to be their second home - who can forget Lloyd’s 102 in the first World Cup Final or Richards’ 138 in the second World Cup Final? At his first Lord’s Test Jim Swanton witnessed the maiden double hundred (Bradman’s 254 in 1930) and, most recently, the first triple hundred (Gooch’s 333 in 1990). As a journalist and broadcaster for over 60 years, Swanton shares with Tim Rice, a devoted follower since England regained the Ashes in 1953, the great achievements recorded at the home of cricket: the batting of Bradman, Compton and Lloyd; “Massie’s match” - his remarkable debut at Lord’s; the MCC Bicentenary match when Gavaskar, Gatting, Gooch and Greenidge served up a feast of hundreds; and Gooch’s record-breaking innings of 1990 are all featured on this special video. And much, much more...