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[DiscoStu]

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

[arsenal123]

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.

[DiscoStu]

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.

[Byo]

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!!!!

[Ayrtek Cricket]

haha classic, hope she was ok!

U missed a good night out afterwards, some epic moves from Coxy and Matty owning the dance floor.

[uknsaunders]

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!

[uknsaunders]

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!!!

a friendly match wicket

A quaint like pavilion

BUT WAIT A MINUTE....................
IS THAT A ROAD THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE PITCH?

Kew has a footpath through it, first class dump by TVL standards.

[aidankelleher]

there some shockers

[Pitbull]

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.

[hopwoodbear]

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

[Warneymonster]

weybridge vandals, worse ground ive ever played in every sense

[FattusCattus]

Why?

[RoCo Da Pixie]

From what I understand Weybridge Vandals are going to struggle to get their pitch ready for the 2014 season.

[Gingerbusiness]

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'...

[Gingerbusiness]

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!