Lord's Cricket Ground

Lord's Cricket Ground (abbreviated as Lord's) is a famous cricket ground in St John's Wood, a district of the British capital London . The club's stadium Marlylebone Cricket Club(MCC). It is also the home of ECB (Cricket Association of England and Wales), the ECC (European cricket league) and until 2005 also the home of the ICC . Lord's is often also called The home of cricket called.

Lord's is the oldest sports in the world .

Lord's also sports other than cricket played, including baseball, tennis and archery.

History
There have been in the past three Lord's Cricket Grounds. The original was founded by Thomas Lord in 1787 at Dorset Square in Marylebone (a neighborhood in London). The first normal cricket match that was played at Lord's, had an annual competition between the schools Eton and Harrow in 1805 . In 1810 Lord's was moved to a park, there already in 1814,had to leave because a canal had to be dug. From 1814 Lord's is in its current location.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London will be finished archery section at Lord's. The site is suitable because cricket fields are particularly large, and archery also requires a large area.