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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Grounds => Topic started by: Noproblem on May 14, 2013, 03:32:26 PM
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We all have our favourites, but also the ground's we hate playing at, without being too demeaning to the club's that use those, what is you're least favourite, and for what reasons.
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Braybrooke.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=braybrooke&ll=52.451616,-0.868671&spn=0.006395,0.01929&safe=off&client=safari&hnear=Braybrooke,+Northamptonshire,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=52.45199,-0.867607&panoid=qc2IMJgytF2pU7CSqV3KAQ&cbp=12,335.07,,0,1.5 (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=braybrooke&ll=52.451616,-0.868671&spn=0.006395,0.01929&safe=off&client=safari&hnear=Braybrooke,+Northamptonshire,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=52.45199,-0.867607&panoid=qc2IMJgytF2pU7CSqV3KAQ&cbp=12,335.07,,0,1.5)
Those poles you can see round the square hold barbed wire fencing which keep the cattle that roam the outfield during the week off the tracks. The poles are removed for matches, leaving huge square holes around the square.
Outfield is very long despite the cattles best efforts.
One plus point was a pretty good tea when i went. It wasn't enough to tempt me back for a second visit this season however
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Beddington park- Best teas around make it worthwhile though!
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Oh dear I see what you mean, couldn't have ben too much fun
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Beddington Park is that near Croydon, and the Cricket coach centre?
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Long Clawson,
Sheep herd on the outfield.
There is a metal drain in the bowlers run up. This means bowlers either risk slipping on this and breaking their leg, shortening their run up or coming in from an angle.
The pavilion is a mobile cabin which only has 1 door, the away team exit via the window.
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Erm, Newbery. Has to be - aside from the long journey, the wicket is terrible, the outfield pretty ropey and the pavilion soulless (and with frogs in the showers!)
Not sure I can think of any others, though there are plenty in the Middlesex Championship.
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Noproblem- yes near enough
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I played at the cricket coach centre on friday for the cricket writers club..the trains whizzing past were a nightmare.
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Beddington park- Best teas around make it worthwhile though!
I used to play at Beddo. Agree to some extent, however, the people were great and had a fun time there. Places like Old Emanuel on the A3 (however, had one of the best teas when Gaylord (RIP) was doing them), Ashford (Surrey / Middlesex - Just by Heathrow) and Bognor (On a windy day - however, a great tea though) are up there with the most unenjoyable pitches I've played at.
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Hounslow use to a great place for plane spotting. The planes were queued up over your head. I think they folded.
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Bedminster 3rd's in Bristol. Un cut, un rolled, just awful. That or Charfield in Gloucestershire. Proper cabbage patch!
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Charfield is a horrible ground. Haven't played where Bedminster 3s have unless it's the bottom pitch from their 1s?
Tetbury is also a vile place to place
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For me there are a couple,
Leicestershire County Council's ground (next to their officies). The most abrasive wicket I've played on. In a 20/20 work friendly the first ball looked like my dogs had had a go at it!! the bounce was amazingly erratic. I was umpiring at square and two balls pitching about the same length - one went by shoulder height, the other almost yorker height (it was a good-full lenght as well). I also got out first ball to a length ball, that I gloved behind with the gloves infront of my face (while stood up straight!!!)
That any a couple of Nottingham council park grounds where the crease's are about 6inches higher than the middle of the wicket... It's like playing on a non-european union regulated bannana :D
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Peglers, good luck finding the square...
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I also got out first ball to a length ball, that I gloved behind with the gloves infront of my face (while stood up straight!!!)
Would that be a golden duck?
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There are a few places I hate going to play down in sunny kent. The worst are the bowl grounds where if it rains during the week, 100 is a good score.
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Worst grounds are either Wilmington which is a council pitch and is just bloody deadly either gonna smash into your face or your toes and you never know which from ballot ball
Others include dartfordians which is a nice square but outfield is all rugby pitch so bobbly and also shooters hill which again is basically a rugby club that want to make a few quid in the summer from cricket, awful square and outfield.
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Worst grounds are either Wilmington which is a council pitch and is just bloody deadly either gonna smash into your face or your toes and you never know which from ballot ball
Others include dartfordians which is a nice square but outfield is all rugby pitch so bobbly and also shooters hill which again is basically a rugby club that want to make a few quid in the summer from cricket, awful square and outfield.
One of the first piuctures that came up searching up Wilmington :D :
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/p480x480/972040_514911705225406_1402402525_n.jpg)
Probably a different place , but that square needs some work ;).
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One of the first piuctures that came up searching up Wilmington :D :
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/p480x480/972040_514911705225406_1402402525_n.jpg)
Probably a different place , but that square needs some work ;).
Not far off lol
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I'm playing at a terrible ground tmro, weather permitting, I shall post some pictures, see if its as bad as I remember
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Charfield is a horrible ground. Haven't played where Bedminster 3s have unless it's the bottom pitch from their 1s?
Tetbury is also a vile place to place
Bedminster 3's play behind the school opposite. Ashton Court I think it is, horrible place. I've not played Tetbury. Had an interesting game this weekend against the Bohemians in Filton on an awful, cracked and dusty track that had the most uneven bounce you have ever seen. Still managed to bat 35 overs though.
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Peglers, good luck finding the square...
cant be worse than Stanley surely?
this years track (https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/946258_10151777470539874_1192704157_n.jpg)
last years track
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/264090_10150290797614903_3984112_n.jpg)
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Luckily though sim dog Stanley are so bad teams still bang 200+ on that track lol. Wouldn't like to think I was facing any wheels on there or a class spinner. We arrived this year for the t20 mate and the square was a similar length to the outfield. We couldmt even tell which strip was meant to have been prepared. One year we banged 189-2 in a t20 and rolled them for less than 30. It took us 18 overs to do it mind because they just couldnt get bat on ball, our bowlers turned it from a two paced tufty shocker into an absolute terror track
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cant be worse than Stanley surely?
this years track (https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/946258_10151777470539874_1192704157_n.jpg)
last years track
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/264090_10150290797614903_3984112_n.jpg)
There is a pitch there? ;)
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Luckily though sim dog Stanley are so bad teams still bang 200+ on that track lol. Wouldn't like to think I was facing any wheels on there or a class spinner. We arrived this year for the t20 mate and the square was a similar length to the outfield. We couldmt even tell which strip was meant to have been prepared. One year we banged 189-2 in a t20 and rolled them for less than 30. It took us 18 overs to do it mind because they just couldnt get bat on ball, our bowlers turned it from a two paced tufty shocker into an absolute terror track
we posted 220 there few weeks ago did help tho that my 1st 5 balls where full tosses.
we made them cut it other year before we played lol
hard to think that these where once big dogs in the central Yorkshire league
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What's that postage stamp across from glen road sim. That place is a dump!! No electrics, no working toilets etc and got changed in a damp, dark and soggy outbuilding. Ground itself is tiny and is in serious need of TLC yet they play aire wharf div 1 I think. Absolute joke of a place that. Outfield wouldn't look out of place in the swamps of Louisiana and the wicket as already destroyed when we turned up. They only rolled it when we had won the toss and decided they were going to bat first !!
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saint chads lol
no sight screens either? or they didnt last year lol
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That's it. No screens mate this time either and one end you've got the bowler coming out of the brick building or trees and at the other there's the hill, church and tennis court fences lol.
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cant be worse than Stanley surely?
this years track (https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/946258_10151777470539874_1192704157_n.jpg)
last years track
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/264090_10150290797614903_3984112_n.jpg)
can't be that bad, I've got 90 odd there in a league game.
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I did say they were absolutely awful in a previous post ;)
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Played on one game the other week, which was on a hill, which is a rugby pitch. There is no screen.
Oh wait one side has a fence which goes around the rugby 1st team pitch which is painted white......
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Bedminster 3's play behind the school opposite. Ashton Court I think it is, horrible place. I've not played Tetbury. Had an interesting game this weekend against the Bohemians in Filton on an awful, cracked and dusty track that had the most uneven bounce you have ever seen. Still managed to bat 35 overs though.
Have played Bohemians at Mile Straight this year too. The pitch was low but not uneven. Plenty of clubs will have been struggling to turn out decent tracks with the recent dry weather. Ashton Court is horrendous though as is Vassals Park in Fishponds. Turned up there last year for oppo skipper to ask which track we wanted to play on, no changing rooms or running water on the hottest day of the year either
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cant be worse than Stanley surely?
Luckily I've never had the displeasure of playing at Stanley! Ferrybridge's new pitch is awful too, not that they'll be finding their way up the divisions anytime soon. I put my key in one of the craters, I mean cracks, and it vanished! Nice facilities mind...
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Pak Shaheen in the Warwickshire League, the outfield is ropey at best, and the wicket is a shocker, or it was on Saturday anyway. The first ball of our innings was a length ball that cleared the openers head by a foot! One ball would fly, and the next one smack you on the ankle, truly shocking!
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One of the first piuctures that came up searching up Wilmington :D :
([url]https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/p480x480/972040_514911705225406_1402402525_n.jpg[/url])
Probably a different place , but that square needs some work ;).
(http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc115/slinky_dog/2013-06-08132222_zpsc2871302.jpg) (http://s215.photobucket.com/user/slinky_dog/media/2013-06-08132222_zpsc2871302.jpg.html)
here's wilmington
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Pak Shaheen in the Warwickshire League, the outfield is ropey at best, and the wicket is a shocker, or it was on Saturday anyway. The first ball of our innings was a length ball that cleared the openers head by a foot! One ball would fly, and the next one smack you on the ankle, truly shocking!
Ha. Ward end unity is similar. And walsall phoenix / ymf. Been pelted with stones whilst fielding at all of these. Not in my top ten holiday destinations. Saying that places like standard, aston unity etc still have some appeal so not all bad this season.
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Wilmington looks a little green. Nice short boundary mind!
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Wilmington looks a little green. Nice short boundary mind!
It was exceptionally green, grass on the wicket was the same length as the outfield. Saying that the wicket didn't play too badly.
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That's a little bit ridiculous, well it looks that way in the pictures anyway. Where abouts in the country is it?
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A green deck at club level can often be misleading. Sometimes it's just a case of it not getting enough cutting rather than the wicket itself being a bad track. We played on a raging green top 3 weeks ago and knocked off 204 in 39 overs for 2 down. It was possibly the flattest deck of the season. Opposite can be true of a light coloured deck:-
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jYPhRBkI6QA/UhFgxkHRvHI/AAAAAAAAL_4/neWtasXIsjo/w415-h553-no/20130818_132218.jpg)
Everybody thought this looked the best deck of the season we had seen at our ground. In fact the overnight rain had turned it into a slow turgid deck where timing the ball was nearly impossible, 111ao played 112-7. I've played on many grounds where the straw coloured decks perform like absolute dogs.
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Played at one of my least favourite ground yesterday - Radwinter (in Essex). It's a reacreational ground (i.e a field next to a park which has a football pitch on part of it). The clubhouse is a shed, not enough room for even half the team in the dressing room. Always get a rubbish tea. Pitch had stud marks on it and was popping balls up like a good'un. Outfield is nice and long, with the odd unpredictable bounce. We lost.
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Played at one of my least favourite ground yesterday - Radwinter (in Essex). It's a reacreational ground (i.e a field next to a park which has a football pitch on part of it). The clubhouse is a shed, not enough room for even half the team in the dressing room. Always get a rubbish tea. Pitch had stud marks on it and was popping balls up like a good'un. Outfield is nice and long, with the odd unpredictable bounce. We lost.
Sounds like a wonderful way to spend your Sunday afternoon!
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Agreed, this is the deck at a team in my Saturday league. It has gained a rep as a road, and certainly looks like one. This was it before the game a few weeks ago, it was the first time i've played on it for a number of years. It played like my back garden, two paced, inconsistent bounce and i reckon i could have turned one square on it too, our openers were bowling off cutters that were pitching outside off and missing leg. Awful!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BQLJgG-CIAA-WtD.jpg:large)
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Sounds like a wonderful way to spend your Sunday afternoon!
Indeed it was, also forgot to add the toilet is in its own spider infested building at the other end of the field. Really is nice.
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Agreed, this is the deck at a team in my Saturday league. It has gained a rep as a road, and certainly looks like one. This was it before the game a few weeks ago, it was the first time i've played on it for a number of years. It played like my back garden, two paced, inconsistent bounce and i reckon i could have turned one square on it too, our openers were bowling off cutters that were pitching outside off and missing leg. Awful!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BQLJgG-CIAA-WtD.jpg:large)
Reminds me of when I played at Thorner Mexborough a couple of seasons ago. I bowled one deliver that bounced shoulder high from a length bowling spin. As you say Jake, it had inconsistent bounce and made chasing 120 hard work. Nice ground though. Problem is shaving all the grass off actually can make things worse. The ball sticks in the wicket and slows up instead of skidding off. My old man use to keep as much grass on as he could and it made a good contest between bat and ball:-
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-g02T9QerSww/UaKYPcQ6HZI/AAAAAAAAKyM/3FW0g-kS9XA/w415-h553-no/20130526_135702.jpg)
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Agreed, this is the deck at a team in my Saturday league. It has gained a rep as a road, and certainly looks like one. This was it before the game a few weeks ago, it was the first time i've played on it for a number of years. It played like my back garden, two paced, inconsistent bounce and i reckon i could have turned one square on it too, our openers were bowling off cutters that were pitching outside off and missing leg. Awful!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BQLJgG-CIAA-WtD.jpg:large)
Looks like Warboys to me Jake :)
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Looks like Warboys to me Jake :)
Not far, St Ives. Warboys are in the league below us.
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Just to add, it doesn't really belong in the worst grounds i have played at. St Ives is a nice ground, and i know enough people who relish batting there. It was obviously an odd set of conditions that contributed to it playing so much worse compared to the way it looked.
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St.Ives, is that in Hunts at like a Sports complex?
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St.Ives, is that in Hunts at like a Sports complex?
Correct, the St Ivo Centre.
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Correct, the St Ivo Centre.
hum, I'm sure that's where I played against warboys one year but who knows.
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here's wilmington
That Wilmington track is the worst I have ever played on, not played there in a couple of seasons thank god, there is a huge hill that runs towards the pavilion and it can go any where off a length, looks ok in that pic but my god its a poor deck.
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here's wilmington
My lawn's shorter than that! :D
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Agreed, this is the deck at a team in my Saturday league. It has gained a rep as a road, and certainly looks like one. This was it before the game a few weeks ago, it was the first time i've played on it for a number of years. It played like my back garden, two paced, inconsistent bounce and i reckon i could have turned one square on it too, our openers were bowling off cutters that were pitching outside off and missing leg. Awful!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BQLJgG-CIAA-WtD.jpg:large)
I recognise this place....... The games I have played at home this season haven't been too bad, its turned big since the hot weather but early this season it offered assistance for bowlers and value for runs for batsman.
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Haha was wondering how long until someone picked out the ground of another member!
Not the worst ground but a few years back the oppo groundsman called a game off and the home side were so keen to play us that cut a damp strip off the square and painted some lines on it themselves. Needless to say it was somewhat testing to bat on
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2 places this year have been the worst places I've played for many a year. First up was Westinghouse in Chippenham where they hadn't cut the outfield for weeks so the aerial route was the only way to score boundaries, the square is about 10cm above the outfield meaning you have a cracking step to go up on your delivery stride, sight screens tucked in amongst the trees so they were next to useless but a lovely bunch of lads so will give them the benefit of the doubt. Worse though was Langford (https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Langford,+Oxfordshire&hl=en&ll=51.720394,-1.645886&spn=0.001524,0.004128&sll=47.73855,12.508828&sspn=54.037521,135.263672&oq=langford+ox&hnear=Langford,+Oxfordshire,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.720394,-1.645886&panoid=tSaAQhKrljX-mgeZrf88Iw&cbp=12,48.24,,0,-4.91) right in the middle of the warm spell. Picturesque setting but the pavillion is an airless shed that fits 3 players, the outfield is farmland that never got levelled after ploughing so is like a big green McCoys crisp. The track was a shocker though. They said its usually so damp that there is never any bounce but because of the dry spell, the ball was bouncing over our heads from a good length and even though we were getting pummelled they continued with their quicks. Horrible, horrible field. Horrible, horrible team.
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When we were a new club over here in Melbourne and we didn't have a ground we were at the mercy if the local council. For one season we had to play on this ground that was had so much sand in it it was effectively a beach! This meant shots along the ground went nowhere and you couldn't drive on it as it would shred elbows/knees/whites!!! Awful place but not bad memories as I scored a ton on debut in a35 over game coming in at first drop in the 10th over!!!!!
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Pak Shaheen in the Warwickshire League, the outfield is ropey at best, and the wicket is a shocker, or it was on Saturday anyway. The first ball of our innings was a length ball that cleared the openers head by a foot! One ball would fly, and the next one smack you on the ankle, truly shocking!
they had a (No Swearing Please) hole of a ground when we played them years ago, some municipal effort in lemington.....tea was the worst i've ever experienced in 20 years of cricket
they've climbed the league in recent years and believe they have recently bought their own ground in a village somewhere? guess it will take time to bed in
ward end and lyndworth are nother warwick league (No Swearing Please) holes
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I recognise this place....... The games I have played at home this season haven't been too bad, its turned big since the hot weather but early this season it offered assistance for bowlers and value for runs for batsman.
I was posting it in the context of tracks playing differently to how they look, that day at your place was a great example. St Ives has a good rep and rightly so from talking to guys who play there more regularly than me. I think I told you it was a road when you came to the shop in the winter ;)
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Never judge a book by its cover. Our opening got 130 on this! (kingsway park by the way)
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hum, I'm sure that's where I played against warboys one year but who knows.
I believe Warboys use the pitch for some sunday games.
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That Wilmington track is the worst I have ever played on, not played there in a couple of seasons thank god, there is a huge hill that runs towards the pavilion and it can go any where off a length, looks ok in that pic but my god its a poor deck.
this ground should be not be aloud to be used it would shoot one minute then take off from a length horrid deck I had a balls going over my head from a full length >:(
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our 3rdXI were greeted with this yesterday...
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we got 70 and bowled them out for 30, unsurprisingly it was an absolute minefield
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How can you play on that!! I'd refuse!
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That's not a pitch, its a bit of scuffed up outfield with lines painted on by a three year old!
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Lovely! I'd have had a bowl on that!
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That is shocking we turned up to a game today it has been raining all night we turned up to see them rolling the track the guy thought it would help dry it out made it in to a minefield a
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The beautiful Oxfordshire village of Marsh Baldon, is like stepping back in time. Cricket on the village green, surrounded by thatched cottages a wonderful pub, what more could you ask for!!!
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa246/jbl_012/P1040294_zpsed76e675.jpg) (http://s196.photobucket.com/user/jbl_012/media/P1040294_zpsed76e675.jpg.html)
a friendly match wicket
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa246/jbl_012/P1040296_zps9a76572b.jpg) (http://s196.photobucket.com/user/jbl_012/media/P1040296_zps9a76572b.jpg.html)
A quaint like pavilion
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa246/jbl_012/P1040295_zps11f7db59.jpg) (http://s196.photobucket.com/user/jbl_012/media/P1040295_zps11f7db59.jpg.html)
BUT WAIT A MINUTE....................
IS THAT A ROAD THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE PITCH?
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa246/jbl_012/P1040298_zps9526d6aa.jpg) (http://s196.photobucket.com/user/jbl_012/media/P1040298_zps9526d6aa.jpg.html)
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa246/jbl_012/P1040299_zpsc140dac8.jpg) (http://s196.photobucket.com/user/jbl_012/media/P1040299_zpsc140dac8.jpg.html)
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What the ????????
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Rockhampton's (in the National Village Cup final) old ground used to have something like this from memory, seem to remember livestock being moved along it mid game!
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Rockhampton's (in the National Village Cup final) old ground used to have something like this from memory, seem to remember livestock being moved along it mid game!
It was similar - not sure it was a road but certainly had something running through it!!!
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It was similar - not sure it was a road but certainly had something running through it!!!
It may have been more of a path / lane than a road but I definitely remember farm animals on it! Also a very unique set of local rules...
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must get bonus points for hitting a moving car though surely.
you def loose points for knocking out an old lady who is watching the game tho Byo!!!
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Double bonus points if you hit an actual cow at cow corner?!
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By no means in the same league but Herongate in Essex has 1 very short boundary due to the A128. Always an argument about who bowled from which end when I played there. https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=CM13+3QB&ll=51.596668,0.351605&spn=0.024339,0.066047&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=Herongate+CM13+3QB,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.598142,0.347434&panoid=MKNbtj2_QfBNDJ1A3GptXA&cbp=12,67.08,,0,1.05
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I scored my first ever 50 there... I imagine a lot of players have. In particular I remember chasing a slower ball, mistiming it for six and missing a car by feet.
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I scored my first ever 50 there... I imagine a lot of players have. In particular I remember chasing a slower ball, mistiming it for six and missing a car by feet.
The anger shown by our batsmen for getting out cheaply was always memorable.
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must get bonus points for hitting a moving car though surely.
you def loose points for knocking out an old lady who is watching the game tho Byo!!!
She wasnt watching mate - blame her husband for getting out the way and letting her take it in the chops!!!!
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haha classic, hope she was ok!
U missed a good night out afterwards, some epic moves from Coxy and Matty owning the dance floor.
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our 3rdXI were greeted with this yesterday...
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we got 70 and bowled them out for 30, unsurprisingly it was an absolute minefield
name and shame the club/ground! They've not even mowed the whole strip, just the middle!
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The beautiful Oxfordshire village of Marsh Baldon, is like stepping back in time. Cricket on the village green, surrounded by thatched cottages a wonderful pub, what more could you ask for!!!
([url]http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa246/jbl_012/P1040294_zpsed76e675.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://s196.photobucket.com/user/jbl_012/media/P1040294_zpsed76e675.jpg.html[/url])
a friendly match wicket
([url]http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa246/jbl_012/P1040296_zps9a76572b.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://s196.photobucket.com/user/jbl_012/media/P1040296_zps9a76572b.jpg.html[/url])
A quaint like pavilion
([url]http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa246/jbl_012/P1040295_zps11f7db59.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://s196.photobucket.com/user/jbl_012/media/P1040295_zps11f7db59.jpg.html[/url])
BUT WAIT A MINUTE....................
IS THAT A ROAD THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE PITCH?
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Kew has a footpath through it, first class dump by TVL standards.
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there some shockers
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Pak Shaheen in the Warwickshire League, the outfield is ropey at best, and the wicket is a shocker, or it was on Saturday anyway. The first ball of our innings was a length ball that cleared the openers head by a foot! One ball would fly, and the next one smack you on the ankle, truly shocking!
Pak Shaheen is a shocker! did you play there the first season they moved there? Pavilion had no water or electricity and the outfield was just sand. Was 'slightly' better this season.
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name and shame the club/ground! They've not even mowed the whole strip, just the middle!
from what i heard from our lads that played there wasnt even an established wicket, they've just pitched stumps in the middle of a recreation ground, cut it as short as it would go with a lawnmower and rolled it a few times
club is MEB Community Cricket Club that play at the back of an industrial estate in Small Heath, Birmingham
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weybridge vandals, worse ground ive ever played in every sense
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Why?
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From what I understand Weybridge Vandals are going to struggle to get their pitch ready for the 2014 season.
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Kew has a footpath through it, first class dump by TVL standards.
Played there last year. Hated it. Ground is ridiculously small too (Many mistimed 6s).
Area is great though.
Hillingdon Manor has a path going through it too. Really high standards in the TVCL these days.
Seen people given 2s or 3s out of 6, for the pitch, because 'One kept low'... :-[
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Erm, Newbery. Has to be - aside from the long journey, the wicket is terrible, the outfield pretty ropey and the pavilion soulless (and with frogs in the showers!)
Not sure I can think of any others, though there are plenty in the Middlesex Championship.
Remember getting nailed in the grille by a full pitched delivery when we last played them in the league - good to see Charlie Anstey is still taking all their wickets and scoring all their runs.
Have them again this season after the leagues have been redrawn. Should be interesting!
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Seen people given 2s or 3s out of 6, for the pitch, because 'One kept low'... :-[
Use be the problem with playing at Marlow. The deck was so good that as soon you played elsewhere and couldn't flat track bully it, the grumbling started. The number of times our top order batsman would talk themselves out on a perfectly good deck because something odd happened occasionally, was silly. Then the Marlow deck would have an off day when it got wet or too dry and the skipper would be searching for the groundsman to give him a bollocking. The number of green tops I've seen do absolutely nothing is not funny!
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Hillingdon Manor has a path going through it too. Really high standards in the TVCL these days.
errr, no it doesn't. It has one that goes in front of the sightscreen at one end, if the idiots putting it out have not put the screen inside the boundary is all!
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Why?
Rubbish deck, facilities just as bad if not worse, clubhouse is a unruly school, outfield is a rugby pitch, need I go on. Maybe I'm spoilt in our league as we get to play at some great places like chertsey, kempton, Hampton wick, chobham, Dorking etc so it makes it look worse but comfortably the worst overall in the league
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errr, no it doesn't. It has one that goes in front of the sightscreen at one end, if the idiots putting it out have not put the screen inside the boundary is all!
Still an awful ground haha, however their 1st team ground is one of the best in the south of england!
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this is the view towards square leg. my car is parked just off the boundary, the white flags are just visible
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this is the view towards third man.
i didnt take a picture of the wicket but it was mainly a gravel material. we turned up before their team and there wasnt a wicket marked out. the bloke from their side turns up and puts the frame on the wicket where ever he fancied playing today and marked it out.
they are only a friendly side we played on tour but it was ridiculous the bounce was so inconsistent i tried to make every ball a full toss.
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Still an awful ground haha, however their 1st team ground is one of the best in the south of england!
Although I tend to agree that Coney is not great, it isn't as bad as is made out (well, the wicket isn't - the outfield would be better if the council could be relied upon to cut it) and is not massively worse than the home grounds of some of the people who criticise it!
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errr, no it doesn't. It has one that goes in front of the sightscreen at one end, if the idiots putting it out have not put the screen inside the boundary is all!
I haven't criticised the pitch, have criticised the ground. When I last played there someone had obv left the sight screens beyond the path as a few people used the path during the match...
As you say, the council have a lot to answer for... But I have been there when players have checked the outfield for needles and glass and had to remove a burnt motorcycle from the outfield, but admittedly, this was years ago. Once again, not the clubs fault. Can't account for the variables.
Tbh you probably have a better square than us (the groundsman is allergic to water at certain times of the year but won't listen! the chairman told him it was a 'league rule' that he had to repaint the lines, and sweep the ends, between innings just so the umpires could see the lines in the depths of summer!) but we have one of the most beautiful grounds in Berks IMHO.
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That description sounds a bit like Dartford down in Kent!!
Wallingford's old ground in the Cherwell league was a dump and I used to play for them! They've now moved to Blewbury CC and they have a lovely ground. Stokenchurch isn't a great ground in the Cherwell either for that matter but it plays well enough, proper postage stamp but not the best of settings.
I haven't played at many grounds in the TVL but of those I have I would give a mention to Kew. Generally a good bunch of lads but ground isn't great. Our ground isn't the best but it plays a lot better than some of the scores on the mark card we receive suggests.
Down in Kent, I wasn't a fan of Blackheath. Outfield was a rugby pitch covered in sand but the track was generally fine.
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It probably doesn't help that my home grounds track and pavilion is top notch (in fact 280 became a par first innings score later in the season and the pavilion was brand new for last season) but there were a few places last season I didn't enjoy playing at.
The first ground I didn't enjoy was probably just a one time issue as in the second innings the pitch started to level out. I played at Metrogas in a Sunday game early in the season and it was a nasty pitch to bat on. Our club in the pre development league season Sunday games tend to give the bowling all rounders a chance to bat up the order and the batting all rounders more overs ready for the league games to start. As a spin bowling all rounder that bats normally around 7-10 depending on the team we have out, in this game I opened the batting which I had done a couple of times last season on Sundays and facing the tall Aussie opener found out the hard way how difficult it was to play on the pitch. Good length balls were bouncing over my head, the seam movement was unreal moving from outside off to outside leg and to add to this some balls pitched and just rolled along the ground. As the game went on these problems calmed down especially in the second innings. I believe this was just an anomaly as when one of our Saturday teams played there later in the season it was fine we were just unlucky.
The second ground I didn't really like playing at was in Swanscombe. The track itself wasn't too bad but I found out the hard way how bad the outfield. This was during my time playing in our 3XI in which I fielded on the boundary a lot as I'm pretty quick and have a good arm. I had a brilliant day so far already taking two catches including a difficult catch on the boundary in which I sprinted from long off to around deep extra cover to take the catch. Whilst fielding on the boundary at the other end I didn't have too much to do but when one of their players belted a ball straight up where mid on would of been (I was at long on at this point) and on my way in to try and take the catch my foot landed in a goal post hole that hadn't been covered properly and jarred my knee which could of been worse and ended my season. On this occasion I was lucky as I was able to bowl 2 overs that game claiming a wicket before they were cleaned up at the other end finishing with figures of 2 overs, 1 wicket for 3 runs. Remarkably I also managed to bowl 8 overs straight through in the development game the next day finishing on 8 overs, 1 maiden, 1 wicket for 27 which I was happy with along with a direct hit run out near the end of the innings.
One away ground I particularly enjoyed playing at was Lordswood on their main square. I played there once when I was a lot younger in a development game in which our young development side were thrashed against some much older and experienced players. However when returning with my new club we managed to earn a victory against a very competitive side. Normally as a spinner I dislike bowling with the orange development league balls however at Lordswood it was fairly decent. I enjoyed the challenge of bowling early in the innings against former and current county 2XI players and was surprised to see the ball spin as the orange balls normally skid on a lot. In this game I was able to get the ball to drift and spin which allowed me claim some big scalps.
If I'm totally honest most grounds I played at last season were actually really decent grounds and largely didn't have many complaints.
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If anyone has played down south, the new forest kinda south, will probably heard of Swan Green. Renowned as a terrible ground. The strip itself is pretty good but it is on a hill of its own. Standing at one end of the ground you could only see chest up of another player standing at the other end. Theres a few trees within the boundary one being a MASSIVE oak tree. The outfield is littered with an awful amount of horse sh*t and there are a few uncovered manhole with loads of concrete all over them.
The ground was so bad, they were denied promotion one year because of it
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Played at Stoneywood Dyce in Aberdeen. It happens to be next to Aberdeen Airport so you will have 757s coming into land as you try to fend off a rising ball from a length. Wont be rushing back there.
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East Dean is an awful pitch! Never looks cut or rolled!
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Reading through and seeing Beddington mentioned on page 1, pitch seemed fine but the main problem when I played is they were having their BBQ/football party stuff going on with a DJ playing all manner of loud dance music, kids running onto the outfield, all sorts. Eurgh.
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We turned up for a game we got last minute through the conference as our Oppo had pulled out very late.
We had been told that we were probably going to play a 3rd XI side on an artificial pitch. The club had two elevens plus junior teams and had two pitches, so we presumed it would be a mix of kids and adults. We didn't have many options so we took them up.
When we got there, this was the pitch we had to play on:
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Their fixture secretary doesn't play a lot of cricket I imagine. Not only this but the oppo had an average age of about 15 with two 40+ year olds who'd presumably drawn the short straw and had babysitting duty.
Worst game I've ever been involved in. Was an utter disgrace. Our fixture sec copped a few comments from some of the guys unfortunate enough to turn up!
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If anyone has played down south, the new forest kinda south, will probably heard of Swan Green. Renowned as a terrible ground. The strip itself is pretty good but it is on a hill of its own. Standing at one end of the ground you could only see chest up of another player standing at the other end. Theres a few trees within the boundary one being a MASSIVE oak tree. The outfield is littered with an awful amount of horse sh*t and there are a few uncovered manhole with loads of concrete all over them.
The ground was so bad, they were denied promotion one year because of it
There's a team near me that can't get promoted due to their ground conditions. They win the league every year as they are really way too good for that division but due to their outfield being so bad they can't be promoted any further (they play rugby on the outfield on both sides which lead to there being sandpits all over the outfield due to the wear from the rugby season.
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Knowle from Birmingham
Shurdington from glos
Haresfield from glos
Cowley from glos (worst by a mile)
Frampton on seven from glos
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Knowle from Birmingham
Do you mean Knowle and Dorridge or Knowle Village? Both I thought were pretty decent K&D very good infact
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Peter May, Walthamstow.
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Do you mean Knowle and Dorridge or Knowle Village? Both I thought were pretty decent K&D very good infact
No idea, a member of the club used to play there so we had a friendly arranged and it was a minefield, bloody dangerous tbh. We had three guys intentionally get out it was that pointless
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high wycombe was pretty bad when i played there a few years ago, grass coming upto my ankles
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I played against K&D a fair bit in the past (The one Keith Barker played for) As far as I'm aware it split into Knowle and Dorridge a few years ago. Couldn't say a word against the pitch in the past, maybe it's the new ground of whichever had to relocate
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At Frampton did you play on the green by the pub?
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Walthamstow
I played a game up there a few years back, awful pitch - track was dire and the outfield wasn't any better. The opposition being a bunch of knobs didn't help either.
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No idea, a member of the club used to play there so we had a friendly arranged and it was a minefield, bloody dangerous tbh. We had three guys intentionally get out it was that pointless
Perhaps not their first ground, a lot of clubs in the Midlands use multiple grounds due to the amount of teams run on Saturdays.
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Perhaps not their first ground, a lot of clubs in the Midlands use multiple grounds due to the amount of teams run on Saturdays.
Whichever it was it was where their firsts played. When something off a length either rolls or takes your head off its pointless
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Just read through all the posts, not seen any grounds from MidSussex or East Sussex guessing noone plays there apart from me!
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I played a game up there a few years back, awful pitch - track was dire and the outfield wasn't any better. The opposition being a bunch of knobs didn't help either.
You migjt mean Walthamstow CC, though?
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@mdg20 - not trying to insult you at all, I played very briefly for Newham and I'm certainly not saying their facilities are the worlds best! I did think their nets and track were exceptional though, especially for a club with half the league against them for no apparent reason (definitely political reasons than personal, but isn't it the same in every league!).
I do apologise for any insult, just one ground that sticks out for me (probably more for the manner the game was played in tbh)
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If anyone has played down south, the new forest kinda south, will probably heard of Swan Green. Renowned as a terrible ground. The strip itself is pretty good but it is on a hill of its own. Standing at one end of the ground you could only see chest up of another player standing at the other end. Theres a few trees within the boundary one being a MASSIVE oak tree. The outfield is littered with an awful amount of horse sh*t and there are a few uncovered manhole with loads of concrete all over them.
The ground was so bad, they were denied promotion one year because of it
And I'd still rather play there than have to field near the Green Dragon at Rowner...
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When I lived in Wiltshire, a club from Bournemouth always used to come up for a friendly every summer so one year we returned the favour and went down to theirs. Good grief... it's well over 20 years ago but I can still remember having to tiptoe around the outfield to avoid dogs**t that covered the outfield. The opposition chased down our total rather quickly as no-one actually wanted to field the ball. I think there was some argument whether it was dog or fox excrement but whatever, it was absolutely disgusting.
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At Frampton did you play on the green by the pub?
Played a Sunday game there once, tried to avoid batting at one end as I was worried I'd kill someone in the pub garden! Think we paced the square boundary out at 23 yards on the (marginally) shorter side, ridiculous. League games on there must be silly.
As for worst ground I've played on - my current home pitch. Makes me question why I play there almost every home game.
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East Coker. We were bowled out for 40. Unfortunately A few days ago they folded which is still a shame. Other nightmare grounds include anywhere on the Somerset levels in April after heavy rain. I remember east huntspill being particularly boggy.
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@uknsaunders @Maverick79 and myself are fairly spoil in the cotswold league.
This is the pavilion of where we have a pre season friendly
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2 clubs for me one is glaphay and winksley the other tackles cricket club ridiculous hill.
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As for worst ground I've played on - my current home pitch. Makes me question why I play there almost every home game.
Loving your honesty mate ;)
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Loving your honesty mate ;)
Ha there's no point denying it is there! Oh for the days of playing village cricket in my summers when it seemed like almost every ground was lovely.
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Ha there's no point denying it is there! Oh for the days of playing village cricket in my summers when it seemed like almost every ground was lovely.
Sadly we aren't blessed with too many grounds of great beauty in our league
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Two Grounds.
Moggerhanger - we were all out for 42 batting first, bowled them out for 16, first ball of their reply went for 6 too.
Kempston Police - We were all out for 38 and won by 16 runs.
Both were simply shocking.
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Played at some shockers which were mainly parks pitches inc west Smethick park and Wollescote park no facilities artificial wickets when batting at Wollescote Park the slope towards square leg was so steep all you could see was the fielders cap.
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Oohh
Woodpeckers and ullemwood Bharat. I've simply stated I'll never play at those ground again even if it means missing a match. So bad and un enjoyable I'd rather they were relegated or promoted and I couldn't care which (not that they have ever been in my division but if they were)
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Played a game against a Castle Bromwich side- possibly 3rd team. 'Pavillion' (a brick outhouse of sorts) was locked, and was adorned with National Front graffiti including a swastika. The pitch was an absolute bog (I batted for 15 overs for about 15 runs) and I nearly got into a fight with the opposing captain. And I never get in fights.
The worst thing was the tea- a pack of Asda Smart Price crisps each. Nothing more, nothing less. I'd rather they hadn't bothered.
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Warlingham 3XI, on a dog-poo riddled, windswept, featureless park at the top of a hill.
6 a side football tournament taking place on the square prior to the match, and a Diplodocus turd deposited at midwicket.
No showers, inedible tea and infant school sized chairs to sit on.
We won though!!
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Stevenage (not the main ground where 1st and 2nd play) the park next door where my standard have to play.....dog poo, drunks, women of the night, ex cons and that was just our team!
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Played an early season university game against Imperial College London at Harlington Sports Ground which is where QPR train so you can imagine is never ideal when its multipurpose. The wicket hadn't been rolled/watered since the weekend (university games take place on Wednesday afternoons). The changing room was in a maze of a sports centre and the showers ended up being about 25m from our changing room which meant a mad dash from the shower back to the room. (One of the lads slipped over :D :D).
Add to that the fact they didn't have any umpires and they tried to bill us for the tea (BUCS rules say home team provides tea. 3 home 3 away games) meant we were glad we got promoted and don't have to go back this year....
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Stafford Grammar School. No sight screens but green all around, motorway on one side and every time I've had to play there it's rained or has rained before the game so it's a mud bath.
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Stafford Grammar School. No sight screens but green all around, motorway on one side and every time I've had to play there it's rained or has rained before the game so it's a mud bath. Changing rooms are in another post code too.
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I played at a ground last season where the actual pitch and outfield was fine, in fact I really enjoyed bowling on it, it turned miles and even bowling left arm round to a left hander I could get it to spin from well outside off back onto the stumps. However when it came to batting on it we had trouble with the rain as it bucketed down about 15 overs or so in and running between the wickets became dangerous but the umpire wouldn't let us go off for the rain and we had several players slip over. Eventually the light became very bad and seeing the ball became a challenge. The pitch itself wasn't bad it was mainly the conditions that made it horrific to play on.
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Westleigh Methodists, nice pavillion (no bar for obvious reasons) but the actual ground itself is shocking. Horse poo everywhere, bleak surroundings, constant bad smell from both the Patak's factory about 100 yards away and the horse poo. Teas have been terrible as well, just some biscuits and crisps between us all.
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Stevenage (not the main ground where 1st and 2nd play) the park next door where my standard have to play.....dog poo, drunks, women of the night, ex cons and that was just our team!
That has never looked the best pitch from the road!
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We're blessed with generally good grounds in Yorkshire, and in our league. But the only ground that disappointed last season was Millhouses Works CC. The ground itself is in a nice location, in Millhouses park. But you have to go down a slope akin to something you'd find in Val D'isere to get to it and there's very little parking. Getting back out again though is a nightmare! Playing on the same weekend as Cliffhanger Festival didn't help parking, but that's just bad luck.
The surface itself is well maintained, outfield is well managed but the ends of the square are on a slope so you have bowlers fighting for the end going downhill! Doesn't help that the edge of the square is on a plateau, so the bowlers have to adjust as they get into their delivery stride. I guess if you don't own your ground there's little incentive to sort it.
Pavilion looks a little tired and the changing rooms aren't really big enough for 11 blokes to stand in never mind with 11 bags. Being in a park the only toilets are public ones which are well... Public toilets.
Tea wasn't bad though and the scorer was a fit early 20's/late 'teens (Safe to look) brunette. Not sure if anyone actually watched the cricket on offer tbh.
Oh and we won, and that's all that really matters, right?
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Broughton CC...Scunthorpe, poor ground, terrible people (bystanders etc not the players) shame as track is ok despite vandalism and they have some obviously committed long serving players...why they play there is beyond me. One to avoid in the future.
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@Ros102 who do you play for mate?
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Stevenage (not the main ground where 1st and 2nd play) the park next door where my standard have to play.....dog poo, drunks, women of the night, ex cons and that was just our team!
Imagine having to play there every other week! My boys old club.
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Brocklesby Park, owned by some multimillionaire, set within his 27 thousand acres of land.. The changing rooms are a wooden shed with no running water, car parking in a cow field..
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@Ros102 who do you play for mate?
Haxey CC mate
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I play for Outcasts, we're playing you in the next round of GM cup at the end of the month
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I play for Outcasts, we're playing you in the next round of GM cup at the end of the month
Looks like u guys had a tough time yesterday. Looking forward to the cup game. In contrast to Broughton, Hirst Priory has to be up there with the top grounds going, big well done on the new pavillion. Looking forward to playing there soon.
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Yes - tough welcome to the Prem.
The new pavilion is awesome and the ground's looking great at the moment, just need the team to back it up.
See you in a few weeks (if I don't get dropped before!)
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Yes - tough welcome to the Prem.
The new pavilion is awesome and the ground's looking great at the moment, just need the team to back it up.
See you in a few weeks (if I don't get dropped before!)
Its a tough league...despite what people say. I'm sure u guys will find your feet!!
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The worst are grounds where the square is in the middle of a massive windswept multi-sports complex surrounded by football pitches where there is no real pavilion, just a scorers hut and a changing room about a mile's walk away, and every time there is a boundary you have to run about 500m just to fetch the ball.
Its nice to play on a good track, but actually I'm just as happy playing on a cabbage patch as long as the settings are suitably bucolic.
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Smethwick park what a dump.
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The beautiful Oxfordshire village of Marsh Baldon, is like stepping back in time. Cricket on the village green, surrounded by thatched cottages a wonderful pub, what more could you ask for!!!
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a friendly match wicket
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A quaint like pavilion
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BUT WAIT A MINUTE....................
IS THAT A ROAD THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE PITCH?
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reminds me of Shamley Green near Guildford
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I’ve played at grounds where the pavilion is across the road but never with a road inside the boundary :o
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The beautiful Oxfordshire village of Marsh Baldon, is like stepping back in time. Cricket on the village green, surrounded by thatched cottages a wonderful pub, what more could you ask for!!!
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a friendly match wicket
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A quaint like pavilion
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BUT WAIT A MINUTE....................
IS THAT A ROAD THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE PITCH?
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I often think these sort on enforced local rules/pictes are fun (to play at once anyway), but it all seems a bit unnecessary in this case when you look at a map!
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One would have thought that it would have made more sense to have laid the square closer to the middle of the green rather than incorporate a road as part of the outfield but there you go
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Kew has a public footpath inside the boundary which is an issue on a nice day!
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Kew has a public footpath inside the boundary which is an issue on a nice day!
Drove past it on Sunday - the boundary into the road is short!
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you guys don't play in London much, at least not the lower end of Middlesex.
id give my right arm to play at a ground like this every week, someone walks past on the 'road' , stop have a chat, if they got a dog pet that
crickey....for those single might even be a bird pulling opportunity.whats not to like?