The Cooper Dean pavilion
case when a long standing groundsman retires, the blame was firmly laid at the feet of the new boy. “I simply could not
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produce a flat surface. There were clumps of rye grass, thick basal sheath and just two inches of root growth. Chuck in 104 fixtures in the 2009 season and I simply had no time to improve things.” By the middle of the season, Andy was receiving flack from all quarters. “I confess that it was really affecting me. I spoke to my boss at the university and suggested I should hand in my notice. His response was great. ‘Tell me what you intend to do at the end of the season?’ he asked. So, I explained to him the circumstances that had led to the wickets being so poor and that I intended to thrash the square to bits, outlining all the methods I would use. ‘Then you have no need to resign’ he said. ‘I’ll stand by you’.”
Andy got through to the end of the season, still fending off criticism, and began his ‘thrashing’ of the square. “Officials at the county club were horrified by the work I was carrying out.
One even asked me if I knew what I was doing!” So concerned were they, that they called in the county’s ECB Pitch Advisor, John Old, Head Groundsman at Sherborne School (an occasional venue for Dorset representative sides), to ‘urgently’ come and take a look. “John asked me what I was doing, why I was doing it and what I expected to achieve? After I had explained my programme of work he just said ‘well, done, carry on’. I confess to breathing a sigh of relief.”
The Dean Park square has
twenty-four tracks. The six middle ones are kept exclusively for first class and minor counties games. There are four junior and four practice strips. The remaining ten tracks are used for ‘others’. These include club matches and university fixtures. This year, there will be a total of ninety-seven matches played across the square, with the final game scheduled for 19th September.
The 2010 season started well for Andy, with the wickets playing much more consistently. The strip for a
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