The Last Hour: The D.C's Ashes Blog From Lord's 18:07:13

Summertime in England… and football has been nudged aside to allow Cricket to take centre stage. The most important fixture on the calendar of our national summer sport is The Ashes, the contest between England and Australia

The Second Test Match takes places at Lord’s in north London this week. To mark the occasion, The Last Hour will dredge up a cricketing fact of the day every night this week.

We’ll be back again in the week of the 19th August when the 5th Test takes place at The Oval in south London.

(The Nightly London Photoblog will return next week)

The famous Lord’s weathervane in the shape of Old Father Time is a reference to Law 16(3) of the Laws of Cricket: "After the call of Time, the bails shall be removed from both wickets."

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