It's definitely worth experiencing, but it's not how I'd like to watch cricket all the time.
This place on the other hand:
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The wicket for Melbourne.
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It's definitely worth experiencing, but it's not how I'd like to watch cricket all the time.
This place on the other hand:
Yeah they'll get used next season, they will still need a couple of years yet to bed in to what they made to do which is more pace and bounce.....we hope!
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Don't say that Marc ! you'll get lynched for that.
Apparently from next year you will be able to buy prepared pitches from Wyevale at 3 days notice and they would be perfectly playable !
Definitely the prettiest I've been to (in the World).
Hope they don't f*** it up too much with more redevelopment.
Lol nah people need to be told!
Or at least WAS, 15 years ago.
you are therefore excused
although a lots changed, we no longer roll wickets with a horse drawn roller
you are therefore excused
although a lots changed, we no longer roll wickets with a horse drawn roller
It was nothing like as grand as yours Marc, anyway. I was groundsman for the King Alfred's College [Winchester 'University'] sports grounds. It was a one man job, which mostly involved reading the paper and drinking tea, occasionally leaving the clubhouse to keep the grass down, and preparing one strip a week for a college game. It was a shit pitch , at least partly because I was a shit and lazy groundsman. Fortunately the standard of the games was also shit. Their best player by miles was ME, pretending to be a student ( I was only 24 at the time), so they could win a few...
And for those who say teams don't arrange pitches to suit, I once deliberately left a great big fairy ring unattended, right on a length, for three weeks, as it was at 'my end'. I took fifteen wickets in those three games. 
Were you really Simon? It won't surprised you to know that I played on that ground back in the day. You probably prepared the pitch!
If you did, while I was there, then I probably bowled you....
I actually played as a guest for a team of lecturers at King Alfreds, probably about 5 times, as one of the lecturers was a big cricket fan and a friend of the family.
In that case, if it WAS the same summer (1995) then you would more likely have played alongside me, than against me. I played for the staff team too.
I'm talking 1988 or 1989 I'm afraid.
sounds like a nice little number, thats what I wanna do leading up to retirement, a nice little ground to look after part-time.