The august venue has a special status in the heart of the former Australia captain,both from his childhood and later as a county and Ashes Test playerWith another Lord’s Test about to commence it is worth remembering the words of English sports journalist JM Kilburn who once wrote, “Chief among the charming characteristics of Lord’s is its dignity. To sit at Lord’s is to share in substance and so become a man of substance yourself.”As a young boy growing up in Adelaide, and I listened to a lot of Test cricket on the radio. Much of it was Ashes cricket from England. It was the golden age of commentators with titans like John Arlott and Jim Swanton on the BBC,and Alan McGilvray and Lindsay Hassett on the ABC; all wonderful wordsmiths and raconteurs dripping with passion for the game.
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Source: theguardian.com