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of that action. “Remedying the baldness has been our primary concern, but it’s now well on its way to being ready for the first game of the new season,” Matt says. “We’ll start rolling the pitch two weeks before, by which time the ground should have firmed up.” “We’ve also had to do a little work on the topdressing on the old newly turned wickets, as Bancroft’s didn’t have a chance to back fill as much as they would have liked, with the poor weather setting in earlier than we’d hoped.” Far from taking a three-month holiday, Matt and his team have been kept busy preparing the club’s three outground pitches for the arrival of Lancashire for the new season.
Blackpool and Southport will only see one match each, with Liverpool hosting the bulk of the action, which has meant Matt’s attentions have been focused
... aided fast recovery
there. “Liverpool only had one wicket that was suitable for county cricket, so we spent the majority of our time working on the other six to bring them up to an appropriate standard,” he explains. “The wickets had very hard saddles, so we had to sort this out first, koroing off to reduce the levels suitable for play. All the wickets and the squares across the three sites have been topdressed and overseeded using iSeed.” ”Over the next three weeks, until the opening game, the team will continue to bring the levels down and, most importantly, keep it as dry as possible.” Hosting all the one-day fixtures and a championship match at the end of the season. plus two one-day internationals will keep Matt on his toes with only five wickets to play on, each one being played on possibly up to four times. “The programme for the coming season will differ very little from what
we’ve always done, so it will largely be business as usual,” he reveals. “Our main goal will be on getting the levels right on the eleven new wickets to bring all sixteen up to the same standard, whilst keeping a close eye on the affected bald areas. It’ll be a matter of rolling and more rolling over the next year, with our target for unveiling the new additions set for June or July 2012, when the normal cricket schedule will resume and we’ll relinquish the work we’re currently doing at the outgrounds.”
“Bearing in mind the terrible weather and the challenging financial circumstances - both of which had the potential to really hinder progress - the work has been an overall success, thanks to a little good fortune and improvisation on our part to make sure the square received everything it needed.”
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