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Remedial work at the SWALEC Stadium
4 Days ago by: Vic Demain
"Fair play to the bloke, shame about that flooding down there ..."
Remedial work at the SWALEC Stadium
4 Days ago by: madgeorge
"An amassing task Keith. You must be congratulated in taking ..."
Saracens handed pitch boost
1 Week ago by: TURFINATOR
"If you want someone to hang themselves all you need do is le ..."
Harrogate 2012
2 Weeks ago by: Leeboy
"I'm not doubting it was a decent show Richard, my point was ..."
Harrogate 2012
2 Weeks ago by: ricam
"Not sure I agree with you Lee, in around 20 years of exhibit ..."
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Cricket Groundsmen Seminar
2 Mar 2011 -
Cricket -
Vic Demain
- 4 comments
Following a highly successful Bowling Green maintenance seminar held at Uxbridge sports ground in April 2010, discussions subsequently took place between Dennis, Cricketworld.com and myself as to whether we could provide a similar day with cricket content to support local cricket groundsmen in the Middlesex and surrounding counties
Cricket Scotland ODI Awards
25 Feb 2011 -
Cricket -
Press Release
- 3 comments
ODI Groundsmen recognised
Perthshire news: Perth cricket clubs cast wide net
20 Feb 2011 -
Cricket -
Press Release
Perthshire Advertiser Feb 18 2011 5:46PM GMT
Scott Patterson is The Oval's new head groundsman
15 Feb 2011 -
Cricket -
Press Release
- 1 comment
Bill Gordon has passed the mantle of head groundsman at The Oval on to Scott Patterson.
February Cricket Diary 2011
6 Feb 2011 -
Cricket -
Bob Stretton
February Cricket Diary 2011
Turned out nice!
5 Feb 2011 -
Cricket -
Frank Fielding
- Issue 34 - Dec / Jan 2011
Part two of Frank Fielding’s report on the turning of the square at Old Trafford. Here, Head Groundsman, Matt Merchant, explains the choice of contractor, and the urgency to complete certain tasks ahead of impending bad weather
Patterson given Oval groundsman role
28 Jan 2011 -
Cricket -
Press Release
- 3 comments
Scott Patterson has been promoted to the role of head groundsman at the Kia Oval.
Fascinating for Groundsmen
24 Jan 2011 -
Cricket -
Press Release
The Lincs Cricket Groundsmens Association begins its early spring meetings on Wednesday 16th February with one of the most high profile groundsmen in the public spotlight coming to the Lindum Club in Lincoln.
Andy Atkinson - a big man with a big responsibility...
24 Jan 2011 -
Cricket -
Editor
- Issue 34 - Dec / Jan 2011
Andy Atkinson is the ICC Chief Pitch Inspector, a position that takes him all over the world. Currently, he is preparing wickets for the up and coming World Cup on the sub-continent. Here, he talks to David W Smith about how he stumbled into being a cricket groundsman.
Town Cricket Club nets top class facility thanks to Notts Sport
19 Jan 2011 -
Cricket -
Press Release
The future is looking bright for Godmanchester Town Cricket Club thanks to new practice nets designed and supplied by the world’s leading supplier of synthetic cricket surfacing systems, Notts Sport.
What's in the shed?
13 Jan 2011 -
Cricket -
Bob Stretton
- Issue 34 - Dec / Jan 2011 - 3 comments
When it comes to the maintenance of a cricket square and outfield, wouldn’t we all love to have the best equipment and machinery available? Bob Stretton, Head Groundsman at Massey Ferguson Sports Ground, kits out the ideal shed for cricket groundsmen.
Heat, humidity test Seddon Park groundsman
6 Jan 2011 -
Cricket -
Press Release
Seddon Park groundsman Karl Johnson is regarded as one of the best in the business but his skills have been tested to the limit in the leadup to the first cricket test between New Zealand and Pakistan.
Groundsman faces 'test' on home turf
1 Jan 2011 -
Cricket -
Press Release
- 3 comments
Ground preparation is a labour of love and someone has to do it.
January Cricket Diary 2011
1 Jan 2011 -
Cricket -
Bob Stretton
January Cricket Diary 2011
Melbourne Test Wrap Up
31 Dec 2010 -
Cricket -
Editor
The Boxing Day test is over for another year and the Ashes are heading back to England, but what did you make of the action at the famous MCG?
End of the season - turn, turn, turn
28 Dec 2010 -
Cricket -
Tom James
- Issue 33 - Oct / Nov 2010
In the first of a series of exclusive reports from Old Trafford cricket ground, Frank Fielding discusses the scale of the undertaking to turn the main square by 90 degrees under, what is, a wholesale revamp for the historic setting
Australia's day one crash in Melbourne tops the extremes of an extraordinary series
27 Dec 2010 -
Cricket -
Press Release
It is unlikely that the groundsman made a late switch of pitches ahead of the very first Test here at the MCG nor was then forced to deny that he was in collusion with the selectors.
Groundsman plays it cool in pitch ruck
24 Dec 2010 -
Cricket -
Press Release
MCG curator Cameron Hodgkins denies he was asked to prepare a different type of surface for the fourth Ashes Test as a response to Australia's thumping win in Perth.
Paranoid Poms conjure up green MCG monster
21 Dec 2010 -
Cricket -
Press Release
MCG curator Cameron Hodgkins was aboard his roller yesterday tending the Boxing Day Test pitch.
Melbourne pitch switch down to wet Australian summer
20 Dec 2010 -
Cricket -
Press Release
Greg Shipperd, Victoria's coach, has blamed an unusually wet Melbourne summer for a switch to a potentially livelier pitch for the crucial Boxing Day Test.
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