Lord's Cricket Ground, London CNN —At Lord’s Cricket Ground in the quiet, well-heeled streets of northwest London, different architectural eras collide together in a mishmash of mismatching styles representing the old and the new.
And never is that collision between the old and new more evident than when Lord’s, the self-styled “home” of cricket and one of its most prestigious grounds, hosts the annual schoolboys fixture Eton vs. Harrow.
CNN has contacted Eton and Harrow for comment but had not received a response at the time of publication.
Spectators at Lord's Cricket Ground during the lunch interval in 1895 at the annual Eton vs. Harrow match.
“We have to learn from the past, and the successes of the past too.”‘A turgid image of snobbery’The question of the Eton vs. Harrow match has become entangled in the wider conversations around cricket presently.
Persons:
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Organizations:
London CNN, Eton, Harrow, Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC, Oxford, Cambridge, CNN, England Women, Independent Commission, Equity, Cricket, Haymarket Theatre, Etonians, “ Pirates, CNN Sport, Wimbledon, Ascot, Thiele, Times, Harrow coasted
Locations:
London, Lord’s, Caribbean, Harrow