Graham gooch, considered as one of the greatest batsman of his generation was asuccesful captian of England national team and Essex county club. Boen on June 23, 1953 in East London, he had his schooling at Norlington School for Boys in London.
Gooch made his first class cricket debut in 1973. His career in Test cricket startedin 1975 against Australia. But due to poor performance, he was sidelined from rest of the matches in the sereis. He was given a seat in th eteam only later in 1978. There had been ups and down in his career from time to time. He was appointed as the captain of England team in 1988. He knocked a surprising and shocking world record of 456 runs in the Lord’s Test against India in 1990. This included the 333 in the first innings and 123 in the second. This is still considered as a world record.

Gooch was considered as the best batsmen in the world for most of the early 1990s. But he lost out the form as crossed the age of 40. English cricket authories appointed Michael Atherton as the successor of Gooch during the 1993 Ashes series. He later retired in the same year at the age of 41. Batting for England for more than 118 Tests, he also holds the record of playing with 113 different team mates. Gooch is still holding the record of scoring maximum runs in Test matches for England side. He has 44,846 runs in all first-class cricket at an average of 49.01, including 128 centuries in his kitty.

According to Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Graham Gooch is the all-time highest run scorer in top level cricket, if one day matches were taken into account. Gooch made a comeback to the first-class cricket in July 2000, and captained MCC against New Zealand A which was a fiasco. Currently he is specialist batting coach of Essex team.

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Generally known as Lord’s, the Lord’s Cricket Ground is located in T John’s Wood, London. This club ground is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club and is the home of various English county cricket clubs like Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the European Cricket Council (ECC). Known as the “Home of Cricket,” the ground is named after Thomas Lord. As per records, the first match was played here on 22 June 1814 between MCC and Hertfordshire. The first regular cricket fixture at Lord’s was in July 1818 between Eton and Harrow schools.

A big part of the stadium was rebuilt in the late 20th century. It can currently hold a sum of 32,000 spectators. However, the authoroties are planning to increase the capacity by another 10,000. The two ends of the pitch are the Pavilion End (south-west), which is the location of main members’ Pavilion, and the Nursery End (north-east), dominated by the Media Centre. The Pavilion with its famous Long Room waas built in 1889 - 90 as per the design by the famous architect Thomas Verity. The Pavilion underwent a big refurbishment program in 2005.

A big attraction of Lord’s gound is the weather vane in the shape of Father Time, which was presented by Sir Herbert Baker in 1926. The media centre of the Lord’s was commissioned in 1999 and is the first all aluminium, semi-monocoque building in the world, built using boat-building technology. An attractive feature of Lords is the significant slope across the field that causes appreciable deviation in bounce of the ball on the pitch.

The permanent floodlights got installed in Lord’s ground in September 2007. Lord’s regularly both tests and one- day internationals along with county club cricket matches. The MCC Museum, which is the oldest sports museum is situated in Lord’s that attracts thousands of sports lovers every year. This stadium is well connected with both bus and train. Starting from 1884, this ground has become a venue for 116 tests, which is a world record in cricket history.

Apart from cricket, this stadium has also witnessed baseball, football, basketball, tennis and archery at diffent times.

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