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Remedial work at the SWALEC Stadium
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Remedial work at the SWALEC Stadium
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Saracens handed pitch boost
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Harrogate 2012
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Harrogate 2012
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December Cricket Diary
3 Dec 2009 -
Cricket -
Bob Stretton
December Cricket Diary
Cricket: Roger Jones' contribution to Clifton CC recognised
29 Nov 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
Clifton Cricket Club chairman Roger Jones is down to the last three in the chase for a BBC Sport East Midlands Unsung Hero award.
How to Save Test Cricket?
26 Nov 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
- 2 comments
Test cricket in crisis! Again! That\'s the headline you could draw from an MCC survey that finds just 7% of Indian cricket fans prefer Test cricket to other, lesser, forms of the game.
Kensington pitch gets bad report
19 Nov 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
Five months before it hosts the final of the third World Twenty20 championship, Kensington Oval has been slated by the International Cricket Council’s pitch consultant for the sudden and ’significant’ deterioration in its pitch block.
Cricket: University ground returned to first-class venue
15 Nov 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
Slip the roast beef sandwiches into the picnic basket and get ready to unfold the rug on the lush grass embankment. There are assurances Colin Maiden Park (CMP) will be ready in time for Auckland's domestic cricket season.
BJD Crusher pitches in at GSB Loams
13 Nov 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
Hove overhaul set for December
13 Nov 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
Hove spectators could be observing a radically different landscape by 2011 if full development proposals go ahead
Square bashing!
13 Nov 2009 -
Cricket -
Editor
- Issue 27 - Oct / Nov 2009
Neil Godrich, Head Groundsman at Derbyshire County Cricket Club, has been involved in an ambitious programme to turn the square through ninety degrees to combat the effects of the setting sun. Our editor caught up with him to find that the work has been completed a year ahead of schedule
Going Dutch
6 Nov 2009 -
Cricket -
Mel Pooley
- Issue 27 - Oct / Nov 2009
Mel Pooley MSc reports on a chance encounter with two Dutch groundsmen that resulted in two new grass wickets for this up and coming cricket nation
November Cricket Diary
2 Nov 2009 -
Cricket -
Bob Stretton
November Cricket Diary
Phoenix from the ashes ...
22 Oct 2009 -
Cricket -
Editor
- Issue 26 - Aug / Sep 2009
Michael Phoenix is Head Groundsman at Great Melton Cricket Club in Norfolk. Typical of many volunteer groundsmen in cricket, he has to juggle full time employment and family commitments with the requirements of one of the biggest clubs in East Anglia
Hagley Hall you need is love
21 Oct 2009 -
Cricket -
Laurence Gale MSc
- Issue 26 - Aug / Sep 2009
There’s no other word to describe the cricket ground at Hagley Hall, in Worcestershire, other than ‘beautiful’. The history of the Hall, the cricket club and its friendly, yet competitive nature, was enough for Sky Sports to include it as one of three clubs in their ‘Club Life’ series during this summer’s Ashes contest.
Warriors rue replay ruling because of poor pitch
19 Oct 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
Dave Emslie, the Warriors CEO, is "very disappointed" with CSA's decision to replay in November last week's abandoned SuperSport Series game between the Titans and the Warriors at Willowmoore Park.
The hub of the village
19 Oct 2009 -
Cricket -
Laurence Gale MSc
- Issue 26 - Aug / Sep 2009
The village of Curdridge is situated in the ‘pretty’ part of Hampshire at the southern end of the Meon Valley, just a few miles north of the suburban sprawl of Southampton and Portsmouth. John Anthony looks after the village cricket ground.
Arsonists destroy cricket club lodge
12 Oct 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
- 1 comment
Arsonists have dealt a city sports club a new blow, burning down the groundsman's lodge in a weekend attack.
October Cricket Diary
6 Oct 2009 -
Cricket -
Bob Stretton
October Cricket Diary
Bright & Mackay
30 Sep 2009 -
Cricket -
Tom James
- Issue 26 - Aug / Sep 2009 - 1 comment
Moves are afoot to transform Sussex County Cricket Club’s playing surface at Hove into one fit for the country’s most successful side of the last decade. Tom James meets Head Groundsman Andy Mackay, the man mixing science, sense and passion to give it his best shot
Cricket Groundsman of the year awards 2009
28 Sep 2009 -
Cricket -
Editor
- 2 comments
Four groundsmen were honoured this month at Lord’s, the home of cricket, as they each received a Cricket World® & Pitchcare Cricket Groundsman of the Year Award for 2009.
Rules mean umpires are seen in a bad light
28 Sep 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
It was absolutely unbelievable that Yorkshire's County Championship game with Hampshire at Headingley didn't start on time on Wednesday due to "bad light". What a farce!
Blotter - on the landscape!
19 Sep 2009 -
Cricket -
David H Bates
- Issue 26 - Aug / Sep 2009
Steve Rouse’s preparations for the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston were plagued by bad weather, resulting in delayed starts, abandoned play, sleepless nights and strange smells!
Prior to the match David H Bates asked Steve about his preparations. But first, an overview .
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