Postpublished at 21:14 British Summer Time 10 June
19 years ago this week, I attended my first international game at this ground, a T20 against Sri Lanka.
It was a stinking hot day, and prior to the match they staged a Masters game then screened the England v Trinidad & Tobago game from the football World Cup.
By the time the international got started a fair number of the crowd were... somewhat merry, shall we say?
England may not have quite set records today, but I reckon there was a record for the number of streakers in one cricket game that night.