Section of India in the Lord’s Museum. (Photo toi) London: During the third test between England and India last week, the bowling shoes of Jasprit Bumrah and the shirts KL Rahul were placed in a clear corner of the cult Museum Lord, where they are home to the memorabilia that follows the development of the game.“It is history in action,” says Neil Robinson, head of the heritage of the collections in Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the bowling shoes that Bumhrah got his five goals and the shirts wore Rahul here for the second century. Then there was the ball that Joe Root caught to break the world record for most of the catches.
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Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe!Robinson has been here for 19 years. They say that only Australian players are actively interested in the museum. They bring their families and friends to an engaging tour of the day or two before the test match. “I don’t feel great, but maybe there’s a little lack of education about cricket history. People don’t necessarily read cricket books so passionately,” Robinson says. “But when they come and see history on the display, it changes people. It gives them the sense of the importance of the long history of the game and their own individual role in it. Therefore, you see people donate after performances.”
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Lord’s has aura. You are almost forced to ensure that you do not disturb the formal tradition of the place. Yet at the venue, which is marked as a “cricket home”, the winds blow changes. Recently British conservative politician Norman Tebbit – he from the infamous “Tebbit test” or “cricket test” designed to emphasize the perception that South Asian and Caribbean immigrants and their children do not necessarily support the English cricket team -.“I do not think MCC really took it. Inclusivity had to be on the top of the list of priorities.” We have long focused on collecting objects related to the English cricket. Over the past 20 years, the demography of visitors to London has changed dramatically. The demography of the British population had to respond over the last 50, 60 years. So we had to react, “said Robinson.“People from around the world consider us a cricket home. That is why he now celebrates stunt stunt stunt shirts in 2002 in 2002, in the form of a dummy preserved in the workshop.“If you are talking to a pavilion manager, he would probably tell you that it is not something he wants to see, how he will happen again. But as a museum curator, this is a great story. It is usually on the workshop. Robinson refers to the infamous series Bodyline to justify the challenge to go against grain. “There are a lot of things in sports that you could say that they shouldn’t happen, but they did. It’s part of the history of the game. A classic example would be” Bodyline “that ended up in political contradiction between two nations. It wasn’t a great thing from a geopolitical point of view. Now it is an important reference point in the history of the game, ”says Robinson.Lord’s changed a lot. Now it is all modern architecture with modern technologies and devices. At the same time, MCC is trying to maintain as many of its earliest traditions, such as maintaining the pavilion and its old world. Lord’s still hard to try to remain faithful to be a “home of cricket”.
