LORDS

CRICKET STADIUM
Brief History:

Lord's today is not on its original site, it is the third of three grounds that Lord established between 1787 and
1814 His first ground, now referred to as Lord's Old Ground, was where Dorset Square now stands His second
ground, Lord's Middle Ground, was used from 1811 to 1813 before being abandoned to make way for the
construction through its outfield of the Regent's Canal Thomas Lord opened his first ground in May 1787 on
the site where Dorset Square now stands The White Conduit moved there from Islington soon afterwards and
reconstituted themselves as.Marylebone Cricket Club The "Middle Ground" was on the estate of the Eyre
family, who offered Lord another plot nearby, and he again relocated his turf. The new ground, on the present
site, was opened in the 1814 season. The earliest known match was.MCC v Hertfordshire on 22 June 1814
This is not rated a first class match MCC won by an innings and 27 runs The next match known to have been
played at Lord's, from 13 to 15 July 1814, was the earliest first-class one, between MCC and the neighbouring
St John's Wood club, which had several guest players for the occasion, including five leading professionals
MCC won by 4 wickets.The first test match and ODI matches was played between England and Australia indIA
1884 The current ground celebrated its two hundredth anniversary in 2014. To mark the occasion, on 5 July
anMCC XI captained by Sachin Tendulkar played a Rest of the World XI led by Shane Warne in a 50 overs
match.The present Lord's ground is about 250 yards (230 m) north-west of the site of the Middle Ground. The
ground can hold 30,000 spectators Lord's hosts five icc cricket world cup matches, including its fifth men's final
India won world final at this very stadium beating Windies by 43 runs in 1983
TRANSPORTATIONS

The following stations are all within walking distance of the Ground:
UNDERGROUND:

St. John’s Wood – Jubilee line (5 mins)

BUS:

The 13 and 113 routes run adjacent to Lord's on the Wellington Road (to the east of the Ground). These stop closest to the North and East Gates, but are within a comfortable
walking distance to the Grace Gate.
The 139 and 189 routes run adjacent to Lord's on Grove End Road (to the west of the Ground). These routes stop closest to the Grace Gate, but are a short walk from the
East and North Gates.

TRAIN:

The nearest main line railway station is Marylebone, served by Chiltern Railways, which is approximately ten minutes’ walk from the Ground. Marylebone Station is on the
Chiltern line.
Paddington Station is approximately twenty minutes’ walk from the Ground, for services to West and South-West England and South Wales.
Euston, King’s Cross and St Pancras International stations are only a short journey away.
 ST. JOHN’S WOOD

WARWICK AVENUE BACK STREET STATION

1.Pavilion 2.Warner Stand 3.GrandStand 4.Compton Stand 5.Edrich Stand 6.Mound Stand 7.Tavern Stand
8. Allen Stand

Many of the stands were rebuilt in the late 20th century. In 1987 the new Mound Stand, designed by Michael
Hopkins and Partners, was opened, followed by the GrandStand (by Nicholas Grimshaw) in 1996.

The Media Centre, opposite the Pavilion between the Compton and Edrich Stands, was added in 1998-9,
designed by Future Systems it won the Royal Institute of British Architects' Stirling Prize for 1999.

The ground can currently hold up to 28,000 spectators. The two ends of the pitch are the Pavilion End
(south-west), where the main members' pavilion is located, and the Nursery End (north-east), dominated by
the Media Centre.

In 1923, the W. G. Grace Memorial Gates were erected at the St John's Wood Road entrance to the ground
 PAVILION STAND
The current pavilion at Lord's is the third pavilion to stand at the
ground and is main survivor from the Victorian era, having been
built in 1889-90, the pavilion was constructed using brick with
ornate terracotta facing, which includes terracotta gargoyles,
such as The Patriarch' which is thought to represent Lord Harris VIP SEATING AR
EA
[101] The building consists of a long, two storey centre section
with covered seating between two end towers which are capped AWAY DRESSING ROOM
with pyramidal roofs which have ornate wrought and cast iron HOME DRESSING ROOM
lanterns (100) Running the full length of the rear of the second
floor is the pavilion roof terrace, which provides views of the LORDS LONG ROOM
entire ground. It underwent an 18 million refurbishment
programme in 2004-05. The pavilion is primarily for members of
the MCC, who may use its amenities, which include seats for
MEMBERS SEATING AREA
viewing the cricket, the Long Room and its Bar, the Bowlers Bar,
and a members' shop. At Middlesex matches the pavilion is
open to members of the Middlesex County Cricket Club. The
Pavilion also contains the dressing rooms where players
change, each of which has a small balcony for players to watch
the play.The Long Room is found on the ground floor of the
pavilion and has been described by Lawrence Booth as "the
most evocative four walls in world cricket [103] Players walk DRESSING ROOM
through the Long Room on their way from the dressing rooms to
the cricket field; this walk is notoriously long and complex at
Lord's.
LONG ROOM
 WARNER STAND
THE WARNER STAND:-The most striking feature of the new stand is its almost wing-like roof, formed using white oak glulam beams
and profiled steel, with a high-tech translucent fabric canopy that shades spectators but also allows through some natural
light.Locating and securing the cantilevered glulam beams - at that time the longest ever created using American white oak - was a
precision task.The new stand is right in the corner of Lord's, making it the hardest part of the ground to access. This also presented
some challenges during construction, but BAM used a 200-ton mobile crane (positioned for a tight, three-day window on a track-way
on the famous Lord's turf) to lift the glulam beam and pre-cast terraces into place.
 MOUNT STAND
The brick arcade of the original 19th century Mound Stand was retained and extended, making the underside an attractive and
usable public concourse. The seating tiers on the mound were renewed. A new steel superstructure, supported on only six columns,
to minimise disruption to views, are linked by a plate girder, from which lattice trusses cantilever out, like ribs from a spine, forming
the skeleton of a three storey structure, which hovers over the mound below. Private boxes and dining rooms hang below the
skeleton, while service rooms occupy the space between the ribs. A tier of raked seating backed by open air restaurants and bars
sits on top.Flood lights was 3 floodlights were producing 200,0 wicket, 1,800 lux uniformities in ex control of oversp. The six columns
continue up to become masts supporting a flamboyant canopy of PVC-coated, polyester fabric. The whole structure is held back by
tension members anchored to the ground and strapped to the brick piers below to stiffen them.The private boxes have folding,
frameless glass doors opening onto a raking balcony facing the wicket, with party walls of fair faced concrete blockwork and rear
walls, onto the corridor, of glass blocks in

Media box
Allen Stand-MEDIA BOX The media box was designed from 1995-98.

The construction was started in the year 1998 and completed in the 1999.

The media box capacity is 100 people, which stands 15mts above the ground
FLOOD LIGHTS

Flood lights was installed in 2009.3 floodlights were used on each of the four head frames, each one incorporates a 2kw
day-light lamp producing 200,000 lumens. The lighting design ensured vertical illuminance of 2,000 lux over the central
wicket, 1,800 lux over the inner field and 1,300 lux over the boundary and horizontal illuminance uniformities in excess of
0.8. Bespoke cowls and louvers were fitted to the floodlights to ensure effective control of overspill.
MELBOURNE CRICKET GROUND
BRIEF HISTORY

It was founded in 1838 and is one of the oldest sports clubs in Australia The Melbourne cricket stadium was built 1853 and it has undergone
numerous renovations the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) also known as "THE G" is a sports club based in Melbourne, Australia The first public
grandstand was a 200-metre long 6000-seat temporary structure built in 1861. Another grandstand seating 2000, facing one way to the cricket
ground and the other way to the park where football was played was built in 1876 for the 1877 visit of James Lillywhite's English cricket team. It was
during this tour that the MCG hosted the world's first Test match The foundation stone was laid by Prince George of Wales and Prince Albert Victor on
4 July and the stand opened in December that year It was also in 1881 that a telephone was installed at the ground, and the wickets and goal posts
were changed from an east-west orientation to north-south.in 1882 a scoreboard was built which showed details of the batsman's name and how he
was dismissed.The MCG was the home of Australia's first full colour video scoreboard, which replaced the old score board in 1982, located on Level
4 of the Westem Stand A second video screen added in 1994 almost directly opposite, on Level 4 of the Olympic stand In 1985, light towers were
installed at the ground, allowing for night football and day-night cricket games the stadium is oldest in Australia, which is 171 years old The total
capacity of the MCG is 100.018 This includes 95.000 seats and approximately 5000 standing room spaces

The is located in Melbourne in Australia The site area is 89 acres, including Punt road oval
ground The site has road access on all the sides of the site which makes the stadium more
access
The stadium is situation between two railway line which makes people the access the stadium
better The connecting stations are Richmond Station and Jolimont Station The 171m x 146m
field at the MCG is surrounded by four stands - Great Southern Stand. MCC Members Reserve,
Olympic Stand and Ponsford Stand The stadium has 7 access gates to enter the stadium and 6
flood lights The MCC is also an umbrella organisation for other sports, such as Australian
football, baseball, bowls, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, netball target shooting, squash and real
tennis
GATE 1,2,3 three
{atriums entrance}as
underground parking
for spectators
ROOF STRUCTURE

The main roof has 1,100 tonnes of structural steel and 5,300 lineal metres of steel cable supports -6,000 sq metres of
glass roof area and 14,000 sq metres of metal deck roof -2,900 tonnes of other structural steel 72,000 metres of TV
broadcast cabling The main roof covers 80% of patrons.The ground level stands has no roof cover To support the roof
structure it has steel member which is projected on top, which helps in cantilever the roof which avoids the columns below
which would be the obstruction to the spectators
FLOOD LIGHTS
1984-Six light towers averaging 75 metres in height (plus 10m high head frames) were built outside the stadium perimeter.
The towers are made of 20mm steel plate and are 42 metres in diameter at the base.They were commissioned on
December 3.The light tower system comprises of six light towers which stand approximately 75 metres high (equivalent to
a 24-story building) with the head frame a further 10 metres higher (85 metres overall) The foundations for the towers
consist of four reinforced concrete piers which are set down in depth from seven to 12 metres depending on the
subsurface structure.Each of the hollow tubular steel towers contains about 130 tonnes of steel.The diameter reduces
from 4.2 metres at the base to two metres at the top.There are between 12 and 14 landings connecting ladders inside
each tower. The head frames of the towers are angled in at 15 Degrees in order to provide best possible level of light.
Each light tower has an average of 140 no. 2KW (2000-Watt) Metal Halide lamps within the head frame. The lamps have
an effective life of approximately 5000 running hours and about 30 lamps on average are replaced each year. The lights
take approximately 10 minutes to become fully illuminated. If the lights are turned off they cannot be turned back on for
another 15 minutes as they require time to cool down and then warm back up
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF
CASE STUDY OF STADIUMS