By the end of the season, seventy games had been played on the square, a great achievement
Cup in South Africa. The tradition of cricket in Amsterdam is strong and is very visible when visiting the clubhouse, with many trophies and photographs on display.
The club’s square currently accommodates ten playing strips that were constructed a number of years ago in two phases, importing Ongar loam laid to a depth of 125mm over local sandy soils.
In the beginning the Volharding Rap Amstels played visiting English teams in such locations as Vondelpark, Museumplein and the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. In 1939 VRA moved to the Amsterdam Bos (forest) and started playing where the Amsterdam hockey club now stands. In 1988 the club shifted a little more inside the Bos, to its picturesque location of today. VRA has had a long history of success in both men’s and women’s cricket and has produced many Dutch internationals, some of whom played in the 2003 World
Andy first visited the club in January this year to assess the situation and recommend what equipment and resources would be needed. Not a lot had been done to the square in recent years, and it was in a poor condition, with little more than 30% grass cover, of which 90% of this was annual meadow grass. Levels were not too brilliant and there were some corrugations across the square. The club did have their own
Autoroller, Dennis cassette system and other bits of kit. However, Andy made arrangements for additional equipment, including a SISIS Variseeder, SISIS
Combirake and a Protea mower. Andy’s first objective was to rectify the
corrugations by implementing a programme of angled rolling. This was followed by summer renovations after each strip had been used, introducing seed into the square to increase sward density and establish better grasses. This involved wetting down the strip after play, lightly scarifying, overseeding with Rigby Taylors R9 at 35 grammes per square metre and applying a feeding programme that was based around a three-week application of amino acids and root enhancers.
Once the grass had established Andy applied some 5:5:10 NPK fertiliser to maintain colour and vigour. The results were very good with over 80% grass cover achieved on the square by early June. The height of cut on the square was kept at 20mm.
Pitch preparations
He implemented a fourteen day programme which began with the
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