Old Cricketers Never Die

GH on a rare assemblage

Sir Robert Menzies, Australia’s longest-serving prime minister, called Lord’s the ‘Cathedral of Cricket’, but his visit in 1957 must have felt like dying and going to heaven: he is surrounded, in this rich and wonderful photograph, by some of the game’s most gilded names, and doing his best not to look too self-conscious at being flanked by Frank Woolley, doing his best impersonation of Anthony Eden, and Sir Pelham Warner, looking a little like a shrunken Gladstone.