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BLEC forced into administration
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A far cry from Fartown!
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Close Season Maintenance of a cricket square
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England Skipper pinpoints the solution to better Pitches
11th Apr 2003 -
Cricket -
Editor
ECB award-winning Head Groundsman, David Bates, has earned the praise of England captain Nasser Hussain for the quality of his Northamptonshire County pitch.
April's Cricket Diary
3rd Apr 2003 -
Cricket -
Jon Buddington
Jon Buddington's tips for this months lead up to your first games-details inside
March cricket diary
3rd Mar 2003 -
Cricket -
Editor
The March cricket diary, kindly written by ECB Pitch Advisor Jon Buddington
ECB pitch advisor second interview
23rd Feb 2003 -
Cricket -
Editor
Jon Buddington answers some more of those burning questions on cricket maintenance-full transcript inside.
February Cricket Diary
19th Feb 2003 -
Cricket -
Editor
With apologies for lateness, what with the GCSAA show in Atlanta, here are some ideas for February. However with the current cold temperatures, work may be restricted to the tool shed-details inside
Cricket preparation is everything
8th Feb 2003 -
Cricket -
David Markham
With the start of the new cricket season a little over two months away, Keith Boyce stresses the importance of pre-season rolling to prepare good cricket pitches.
ECB pitch advisor chats openly
2nd Feb 2003 -
Cricket -
Editor
Jon Buddington, a North-East ECB Pitch Advisor entered into a question and answer session with our Editor Dave Saltman. Click inside for the full transcript.
Over winter at Edgbaston
27th Jan 2003 -
Cricket -
Steve Rouse
The square is doing quite well. We did get a good take of seed germination after the renovations, and my only real worry since then, has been the development of moss.
New Cricket Diary
9th Jan 2003 -
Cricket -
Editor
To start off a new series, we have a cricket diary of generic tasks for January-This is open to variation, feel free to offer your own tips, helpful hints and advice and we'll incorporate these into the diary too.
Out with the outfield in with the new
5th Nov 2002 -
Cricket -
Dave Saltman
Excavating and removing approximately 20,000 tonnes of soil may not sound a lot in a quarry; but from Lords Cricket Ground in Central London it poses a logistical nightmare.
Renovation requires hose pipe!
15th Oct 2002 -
Cricket -
Paul Markham
Finally, on Friday, October 11th in Bingley we got what I can only describe as wet stuff falling from the Sky. I was amazed, stunned, and, of course, relieved, yes, indeed, RAIN.
ECB Grant helps Keighley C.C
10th Oct 2002 -
Cricket -
David Markham
The square at their Lawkholme Lane ground has been re-laid at a cost of about £7,000 with the Bradford League club receiving an 80 per cent grant towards the cost of the work.
Machine pleasantly surprises at British Airways
10th Oct 2002 -
Cricket -
Lynn Hilton
Shortly after the appointment of Andy Richards as Head Groundsman at the British Airways Concorde Club in Middlesex, the annual STRI visit indicated excessive thatch and compaction on all the fine turf surfaces – bowling green, six grass tennis courts, two cricket squares.
Edgbaston under renovation
26th Sep 2002 -
Cricket -
Steve Rouse
The whole square was renovated a week last Monday with the Graden. We used this heavy duty scarifier to remove a huge amount of thatch from the surface of the square. The machine was used in
Woodhouse Grove School
12th Sep 2002 -
Cricket -
David Markham
Bill Davis has enjoyed a successful cricket season after re-laying his square at Woodhouse Grove School. Bill is head Groundsman at the school, an independent co-educational day and boarding school situated north of Bradford and Leeds on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.
Blackpool hope for new wickets
31st Aug 2002 -
Cricket -
David Markham
It has been a busy season at Blackpool CC with three county matches on top of a hectic club campaign with senior and junior teams using the Stanley Park ground most days a week.
Blackpool staged a Lancashire second team three-day match early in the season
Flooding in August!
30th Aug 2002 -
Cricket -
Paul Markham
August has been an eventful month for Bradford & Bingley Groundsman Paul Markham, who has seen his ground under water twice as well as preparing a pitch for the Bradford League showpiece, the Priestley Cup final. Here is his latest report.
Experimenting at Warwickshire
23rd Aug 2002 -
Cricket -
Steve Rouse
t the moment we're planning to do some work on the No 1 practice area. We've relayed 20 new wickets.The old bowling ends where the bowler lands were originally the former outfield; it is very soft and has taken some hammering from these heavyweight bowlers.
Graden scarifier proves its worth
21st Aug 2002 -
Cricket -
David Markham
Groundsmen at Bradford’s premier cricket ground have made good use of their Graden scarifier.Chris Cay, co-Groundsman at Park Avenue, which is the headquarters of the Bradford-Leeds Universities Centre of Excellence, said: “We have a Graden scarifier, which can go down to a maximum depth of 50mm.
Weather plays havoc on school square
21st Aug 2002 -
Cricket -
David Markham
Rain and drainage problems have played havoc with the cricket programme at Sedbergh School.
Sedbergh, set in south Cumbria within easy reach of the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District, is one of the leading public schools in the north.
The school has 450 students
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