Summer Sports - Cricket
You don’t have to fight battles about everything. As long as you explain why things are the way they are, common sense usually prevails
Pre‐season heavy rolling of the square with a Poweroll County
groundsman’s product. “You have to watch at least some of a game on yours to form an opinion on how it’s playing and talk knowledgeably to others. I usually watch the first hour and some of the final session of the day during a 4‐day county game.” “Control of on‐field match matters is changing. It’s not so much the umpires that call the tune in first class cricket as the new Cricket Liaison Officers, who are more or less match managers now. I have more contact with these than the umpires nowadays.” “With the CLOs rating the pitch, it’s important to have a good relationship with them so as they understand what has gone into the preparation and any issues there may have been in the run up to the game. The pitches have been very settled here for six or seven seasons now and there are no issues regarding the quality of the playing surface.” The CLO panel is now made up of ten former players, among them Graham Cowdrey, Tony Pigott, Dean Cosker and Richard Ellison. The aim this season is to have one of them at every Specsavers County Championship game, Divisions One and Two, and all NatWest T20 Blast and Royal London One‐Day Cup games. A Cricket Operations Manager, former Surrey all‐rounder Andy Smith, has been appointed by the ECB to be in charge of the panel. Karl admits to being a bit of a grumpy groundsman in his early days in Ireland and was perhaps too protective of the playing area. “I’ve mellowed a bit,” he said. “You don’t have to fight battles about everything. As long as you explain why things are the way they are, common sense usually prevails.” When the fixtures start ticking over this season Karl will be in his element, fulfilling a passion that began in the northern outskirts of Dublin.
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