Watchmaker Oris invited us down to play a game. This is what we learned
Lord’s cricket ground is a special place. Unironic striped blazers abound. Grown men walk around holding satsumas between thumb and forefingers as if ready to bowl, their citrus fruit presented with its imagined seam bolt upright.
To be clear: being invited to play on the Lord’s pitch is like being invited to add your tag to the Sistine Chapel. I am going to use the home changing rooms, walk down the pavilion steps, run in to bowl in front of the grandstand. This is fully mad. After a net session, we walk out from the pavilion onto the pitch closest to the grandstand. It’s a deeply mad experience. Of the world’s most famous cricket grounds, Lord’s 31,000 seat capacity makes it one of the more boutique. But – not to put too fine a point on it – it is. Even silent and empty apart from the few in the pavilion, it’s terrifying and surreal, like walking into a high Victorian goldfish bowl.
We have come to our senses: Charlotte opens. I’m sent out with her. She gives me quite a lot of instructions, but they basically come down to her hitting lots of boundaries and me running twos to keep her on strike. It goes well until she chips one back to the bowler on 21 with a soft “Oh no!”
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