England meet Australia at Lord's over five days from Wednesday 30 June to Sunday 4 July 2027, first ball at eleven.
Thomas Lord laid out the present ground in St John’s Wood in 1814, his third attempt at a home for the club that became the MCC, and the club has owned it ever since. It is the home of Middlesex, of the England and Wales Cricket Board and of European cricket’s governing body, it held the world game’s own governing body until 2005, and it houses the oldest sporting museum on earth. Thirty-one thousand people fit inside it.
An Ashes Test at Lord’s is the most sought-after ticket in English cricket, and the reason is 1882, when Australia won at the Oval and a mock obituary announced that English cricket had died and the body would be cremated. The ashes have been contested ever since. The ground’s own peculiarities decide matches: it slopes noticeably across the square, so the ball moves differently from each end and bowlers are picked accordingly.
England play Australia at Lord’s from Wednesday 30 June to Sunday 4 July 2027, with play from eleven. Tickets are released day by day rather than as a series. The middle Saturday and the speculative fifth day are the two that behave differently from the rest, one certain to be full and the other sold on the chance the match lasts. The Pavilion, the Nursery Ground and the museum are all inside the ground rather than attached to it.