THE Committee Room in the Lord’s pavilion is a hallowed place within another, where cricket’s grandees have long gathered to sip gin and tonics and pronounce on the play outside. Not any more.
For England’s Test against New Zealand, it will be strewn with jockstraps and smelly socks as the home side uses it as an extra dressing-room in these socially-distanced times.
Some England players will still get changed on the first floor above the Committee Room, which is where they usually disrobe, though it has yet to be decided who goes where. Which could pose a problem. Mo...