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[Liam-SCCC]

Same! Poor design really, metal on metal is a bit scary!

Yeah, nice carpet changing room and then right. Lil nervous going out to bat and try to walk slowly!

One thing though, they need to sort out the lock on the toilet door!

[uknsaunders]

Played once at Finchampstead, the wicket was like glass,you could almost see your face in it, absolutely concrete. We bowled first and it rained towards the end of their innings,but we kept on playing. By the time I got to bat on it , the thing looked like any other muddy deck :-(

Played at Finchley and Southgate - both lovely decks...as long as your weren't a bowler.

[charlie_bendall]

Trent Bridge 

[Ayrtek Cricket]

Finchampstead was a team we played on our 1st tour game we posted 366 in 40 overs which didn't impress them as we were slightly boost when piling off the mini bus! Indian lad we took with us scored 120 odd with 4 sixes in a row! Even I scored 80....5 pint plateau

[ianbuchanan]

Yeah, nice carpet changing room and then right. Lil nervous going out to bat and try to walk slowly!

One thing though, they need to sort out the lock on the toilet door!

Haha, bad luck mate!

Lansdowne has been superb everytime i played there. I played there about 4 years ago. They hit 298 and we got them for 2 in 43 overs. They had ex England bowler Paul Jarvis playing and he went round the park for 90 odd of his 12 overs !!!

North Perrot used to be the best around when Tom Parkman did the ground. Lots of politics at the club now hence why a few have left the club and they have gown down the leagues.


I don't mean the main Bishops Lydeard ground (that is ok) but there is another ground down in the village. It gets very little use.


Played at Dean Park for the Somerset pick of the league years ago. Very nice ground for batting, not so good for bowling....as i found out

Ideal! Its a great place to play cricket... apart from when the air ambulance has to land on the pitch!

Yeah its a shame about North Perrott as we all enjoyed playing there in our league.... I was talking to their first team opener (Nick) who works at M&H, and he says they have struggled to put out 2 teams all season and as a result lost every game they played...

Ah I dont know Lydeard all that well, never knew that there was another ground in the village!

[pacman75cricket]

Aylesbury Town ( I am biased but I am talking under old groundsman othjers need to judge now)

If not probably Beaconsfield or Tring Park

[PM7]

Europa Point in Gibraltar- batting from one end you will be facing Spain in Europe and from the other end you will be facing Morrocco in Africa.I dont think that there is another pitch where you will face 2 different continents from either end.

[uknsaunders]

Beaconsfield - are you drunk! - it's one of the slowest lowest decks in the world. Once watched becky fail to chase 100 odd in a league game and they weren't even close. That was a couple of years ago, and from what I hear it's not much better now. That said my brother once spanked 150 odd in a sunday game a few years before - so I guess it depends when you last visited it.

Hear Trings ok, but the 2 times I played there it wasn't great - biggest problem is bowling uphill in the wind and sun! I'm right in thinking it's an east/west wicket?

[Bulldog Cricket]

Ian - never had the helicopter land when i have played there but have heard about it. They had a Kiwi, Jeremy Deane who played for them in the game i mentioned above. He hit a six into the glass entrance doors of the Hospital !! massive

Such a shame what is happening at Perrott. I nearly went to play there about 6 years ago but things did not work out. Yea i know Nick, funnily enough he played for Bishops Lydeard before NP and Taunton Saint Andrews before that.

[Bulldog Cricket]

Europa Point in Gibraltar- batting from one end you will be facing Spain in Europe and from the other end you will be facing Morrocco in Africa.I dont think that there is another pitch where you will face 2 different continents from either end.

Sounds ace Prevon. Is Richard Askew still the coach out there ?

[ianbuchanan]

Yeah it happened this year when I played there, delayed the game for about an hour! I was already out when it landed so didn't bother me! And that is a huge hit into the hospital, right across the road!!

Yeah its shocking really... I played against Nick when he played for Lydeard aswell, I couldn't work out why he had moved to Perrott at the start of this year as he was skipper at Lydeard.... I think it may be to do with the fact that Lydeard don't want to get promoted into the Bristol and Somerset Division... when they won the league 2 years ago they asked the WEPL if they could stay put in the Somerset league...

[roco]

Would have to say the best track was west bromwich and dartmouths really nice track

[Bulldog Cricket]

He lives in North Perrott i think.

[pacman75cricket]

Sorry don't get out much,

Trying to think in the Cherwell league where i played most my cricket lots of decent tracks but no special ones I can remember.

[AlRidd]

Best club grounds I have played at -
Deane Park Bournemouth
North Perrott (when the old groundsman was there, gone down hill now)
Bath
Frocester (road and small boundaries)
Truro
Lansdown (always scored runs there)
The ground in Bishops Lydeard where M&H and then Bradbury had their factory.

Good choice mate! I live about 10 minutes away from the ground and must agree its a beaut!