The Krikkit Warship made its first appearance above Lord’s Cricket Ground in *Life, the Universe and Everything*. During a peaceful Earth cricket match, the ship materialized out of nowhere, hovered menacingly above the pitch, seized **The Ashes**, and vanished — leaving the spectators mildly puzzled but otherwise polite about it.
The event marks the moment when Douglas Adams’ universe folds the everyday into the galactic. The calm absurdity of a cricket match interrupted by interstellar war captures Adams’ style perfectly: the infinite improbability of the mundane.
The Krikkit Warship belongs to the people of **Krikkit**, a planet hidden in a dust cloud that kept them ignorant of the universe until they discovered it — and promptly decided to destroy it all. Their motto: > The universe? Oh dear. It’ll have to go.
Fans have sometimes identified the fictional ship’s arrival point at Lord’s as the ultimate collision between English culture and cosmic chaos — a moment when tea, cricket, and the end of the universe coexist in perfect balance.
# See
- Krikkit on Hitchhiker’s Wiki 
- lords.org