Somerset - La La La - Somerset - La La La

ST LUKE'S: Finally visited the "home" of cricket yesterday to see Somerset take on Middlesex. Though like all good children it seems as if cricket has grown up and left home leaving behind a selection of family photos and a slightly musty smell.

The ground itself is quite charming recalling elements of the old Gabba and Allan Border Oval. There is a lovely garden area out the back of the members and some beautiful practice wickets you walk past to get to the stands. As a bonus you can walk unencumbered around the entire oval. It wears it's history on its sleeve. Banners draped around the outside of the stands list the milestones of the nation's that have played at Lord's. Many of the greats are represented including Bradman, McGrath, Marshall, Mankad and Richards.

The stands themselves were a little disappointing. Small and ramshackle, they had the distinct feeling they'd been cobbled together. And it certainly didn't have the sheer weight of magnitude a Boxing Day trip to the MCG has. Still it wasn't a bad day at the cricket. Somerset won quite convincingly. I got to see Langer post a century, Victorian captain Cameron White belt a fifty, Irish player Morgan bat well and an impressive all round display by a bloke called Trego.

The best bit: You could bring your own tinnies into the ground! Afterwards we retired to Abbey Road to reenact the famous photo of Australia's fast bowling quartet in the last Ashes. Apparently it has some sort of significance for a trifling pop band as well.