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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
ateline July 2008: I had been invited to enjoy a day’s cricket at Chelmsford as a guest of Ongar loam. I left home in the morning, looking forward to an enjoyable day with other like minded people who love to talk about cricket and to meet some old friends that I don’t often see. At this point in time, I didn’t
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know how this particular day was going to affect my life over the next two years. I arrived at the ground at
10.30am and made my way to the hospitality suite and enjoyed the normal formalities of coffee and chatting with the hosts and other guests. I was then introduced to a couple of guests who had come over from that great cricketing nation of Holland, (well, they did beat England in the one day international at Lord’s this year). Their names were Frits Makkee and Michel Luitgaarden. The purpose of their visit was to source a suitable loam to construct a grass square for their respective clients. Frits was working on behalf of Voorburg cricket club and Michel for Excelsior 20 cricket club. We had a lengthy discussion,
with various members of the hospitality suite, on suitable construction methods. But, the one thing that was being overlooked was the stability of the soil in Holland. The problem that
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exchanged our contact details and we left for our respective homes. I was contacted again, after a
had been encountered with other constructions of grass squares was, primarily, the sinking of the square because of the unstable soil conditions. At the end of the day we
few days, by Frits and was asked for a suitable specification for the new square at Voorburg, because he felt that I understood the problems they could encounter with the construction on unstable soils. This arose from my discussions with him on my background in the construction industry and my location, being on reclaimed land in the Fens which is similar to Holland, and could appreciate what his concerns were.
I supplied a specification using a suitable stabilising fabric in the base of the construction, similar to that used in road building on unstable soils, on top of this a suitable aggregate to a depth of 150mm was to be used and suitably compacted. Another layer of fabric was then to be installed and this covered with a suitable clean sharp sand to 50mm, followed by a minimum of 170mm of suitable loam. This would give a total construction depth of 300mm and would keep the construction clear of the controlled water table of 600mm at the
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