Summer Sports - Cricket
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The delay resulted in the club losing a lot of much needed revenue, mainly bar takings during the months of April, May and June when no home games could be played
Adrian mowing the square whilst the outfield established
very grateful to these Colleges for helping us out. They saved our bacon really,” Adrian told me.
The delay resulted in the club losing a lot of much needed revenue, mainly bar takings during the months of April, May and June when no home games could be played. Also, the club had to pay both Ellesmere and Wrekin College for the hire of their venues. The contractor came back on site in
March, making good use of the dry and windy weather. On Easter Monday, about twenty club members helped speed up the drying process by physically bailing off puddles of water, which enabled the contractor to start decompacting the subsoil. With a significant hot spell of weather in mid April, the levelling and seeding of the outfield was completed on 20th April. A quick to establish, high wear tolerant
Roller ready and waiting
The contractor was duty bound to carry out a number of initial cuts to get the outfield established; this included a couple of rotary cuts and some rolling to firm up the sward
70 I PC AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2015 ” Refurbished clubhouse and outfield awaits the first home game of the season
seed mixture was used, drilling in three passes, followed by two further sowings using a cyclone spreader. The seed was soon up and receiving its first cut with a rotary mower. The contractor was duty bound to carry out a number of initial cuts to get the outfield established; this included a couple of rotary cuts and rolling to firm up the sward.
The outfield was fed on the 1st June and then handed over to the club to maintain. Adrian was now more confident that the club would soon be back playing, with a date set for the first home match of 27th June. Whilst the new outfield was growing in, Adrian was mindful that the pitches were in need of some attention, especially knowing that the square had not received any pre- season rolling this year due to not being able to get the roller across the flooded outfield. Adrian was confident that his thorough end of season renovation regime would have helped set up the square and that he would be able to catch up with some consolidation during the fourteen days he allocates to make ready each pitch for a match. Last year’s end of season renovations saw the square scarified in several directions using a Sisis Rotorake 602, topdressed with eight bags per pitch of Boughton County loam and oversown. He usually keeps the square mown at 15mm throughout the playing season, bringing down the height of cut during his pitch preparations. Adrian is also responsible for looking after their second ground, an eight pitch square that the club have been using for a number
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