Best performers to be honoured on Lord's dressing room walls

DUBAI (UAE) The authorities at Lords, London, will continue to keep the tradition of displaying those players names in their dressing rooms who score centuries or grab five wickets in an innings or 10 wickets in a Test match at Lords and there will be no exception to this tradition in the forthcoming Test match between Australia and Pakistan in July, said Neil Priscott, the media official. Speaking from Lords, he said, The MCC is marking the Pakistan vs Australia Test by adding new Honours Boards to the away dressing room. The Honours Boards in the home and away dressing rooms detail every century, five-wicket innings and ten-wicket match haul that has occurred at Lords. There was, however, an exception for the two centuries scored in the previous neutral Test played some 98 years ago. In 1912 Charles Kelleway and Warren Bardsley scored centuries for Australia against South Africa in the last neutral Test held at the ground but were not included on the Honours Boards., he further added. In 2010 MCC will establish new Honours Boards for neutral Tests, both to recognise the 1912 achievements and to give the Pakistan and Australia players - and all other neutral Test cricketers who will follow them to Lords - the same chance to carve their names into history as all other 'Home and 'Away cricketers, he further added.

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