Stars Set For Charity Cricket Match At Lord's

The annual Lady Taverners ‘Founders Day’ celebrity cricket match is set to take place on the Nursery Ground at Lord’s on Saturday 6 August, where Chris Tarrant’s star-studded Lord’s Taverners XI will be taking on the Dr. James Hull Drillers XI from 12pm.
 
Skippered by Tarrant, The Lord’s Taverners XI features the talents of current Surrey CCC players Mark Ramprakash, Steve Davies and Captain Rory Hamilton-Brown, who will be lining up alongside their manager Chris Adams and coach Ian Salisbury, plus former England fast bowler Devon Malcolm, TV presenter Ainsley Harriott and comedian Nick Hancock.
 
Captained by Dr. James Hull, who has sponsored this event for the last 10 years, the Drillers XI includes Sir Victor Blank, Glamorgan batsman Mike Powell, Essex and England batsman Owais Shah plus Cardiff Blues and Wales rugby players Tom Shanklin, Ceri Sweeney and Rhys Williams.
 
Other celebrity guests attending on the day include Barry Norman, President of The Lord’s Taverners, Angela Rippon, President of The Lady Taverners, BBC Radio One DJ Greg James, actor Robert Powell and entertainer Richard Stilgoe.
 
The Lady Taverners Founders Day event celebrates the foundation of The Lord’s Taverners, the official charity of recreational cricket and the UK’s leading youth cricket and disability sports charity. The Lord’s Taverners was founded in the old Tavern pub at Lord’s Cricket Ground in 1950 and has distributed over £30m to schools, clubs and special needs organisations in the UK in the last decade.