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Dateline January 2009: Throughout the winter I had been keeping in touch with the progress of the new square at Voorburg Cricket Club via my now good friend, Frits Makkee, and the pictures he constantly emailed to me.
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One concern which became very apparent during my visits to the clubs with grass pitches, and discussions I had with the people who were maintaining them, was the knowledge available in Holland on the preparation and maintenance of them. There also seemed to be a problem with having the correct equipment to carry out the work required. During my discussions with Frits and Tim De Leede at Voorburg Cricket Club, and with the guys from Kampong Cricket Club and VOC, I suggested that it might be useful to run a training course for anyone involved with the preparation and maintenance of Dutch cricket pitches and squares. Frits and Tim agreed that this would be very useful and said that they would organise for it to happen.
In the meantime, I informed Ian Lacy at the IOG, what my intentions were and that I would be conducting the course myself. Ian offered me any assistance that I might require to carry out the course, recognising the importance of the project in developing cricket and cricket groundsmen in other countries.
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course. Frits and Tim had been very busy contacting the clubs with grass squares, and the response was encouraging, with about thirty people interested in attending the course. This, of course, would be too many people to train in one group, so I suggested that I deliver the course at two venues. It was decided to deliver one
course at Kampong Cricket Club in Utrecht and the other at VOC in Rotterdam. It was decided to deliver the courses over the Easter weekend - Kampong on Saturday 11th April and VOC on Sunday 12th April. So, now had to organise another trip out to Holland. I travelled over from Harwich to the Hook of Holland on Thursday 9th April, arriving in Holland at 4.30pm. Accommodation for the weekend was kindly provided by Frits.
progress of the new square at Voorburg, and helped to set up the new equipment that had been purchased in the UK to maintain the square. It was growing well and was
On Friday I went to look at the Back to the organisation of the
showing good root establishment. The boards that were used to level the square had been removed, and it had been topdressed and overseeded. This work had been carried out in March by Chris Boniface as part of his contract with Voorburg CC. On Saturday, I made my way to
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