LORDING IT UP…THERE IS NO PLACE I’D RATHER BE

James Wallace savours every moment of his return to the Home of Cricket

Room with a view: A crowd of around 6,500 make for a ‘weird’ Lord’s experience.The signs are easy to spot. Grown men carrying lunch boxes as they amble hurriedly down the street. Respectable older gents on the train decked out in their finery, some offering just a subtle glimpse of the famous MCC ‘eggs ‘n’ bacon’ colour scheme, a high sock here, a pocket square there.Others choose not to be so subtle – decked head to toe in what Farrow & Ball might call ...

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