5 great cricket venues to visit before you die

1. Lord’s Cricket Ground, London

This is the one stadium that is synonymous with cricket. Rightly called “The Home of Cricket”, Lord’s has an aura about it. It has an air to it, that makes the best players want to perform every time they set foot on its hallowed turf.

The distinct brown balconies, the long room, the Honours Board, and the walk down the stairs amidst the members of the MCC, is something that every cricketer would, no doubt, want to experience at least once in their lifetime.

There is also the extra motivation to excel at Lord’s because of that Honours Board, which is adorned by the names of each batsman who has scored a century here, and each bowler who has taken five wickets in a single innings in Test cricket.

But what actually puts Lord’s on this list is that it is the one ground, world over, that even non-cricket people relate the sport with.