Playing cricket in October
Our esteemed Cricket Burbler Mark Davis has tried valiantly to arrange a game of cricket for this coming weekend - the first weekend of October - "as the last last game was so much fun". But his attempts have been dashed! 14 players and an opposition and nowhere to play the game! It appears that groundsman everywhere - or those volunteers acting as groundsman - take the opportunity to reseed, scarify etc as soon as the last scheduled game is played....
Given the change in the weather over the last decade I wonder if it will always be this way? The last couple of Saturdays have been the best of the year and yet, as a devoted cricket player, my league season was over well before that! Now that I've retired from playing rugby, I don't see anything wrong with playing cricket up until when the clocks go forward in October....a thought for fixture secretary's around the country?!? Anyone else keen?
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For many years in pre-league days we used to play the last game of the season on the first Saturday of October at Tring Park. The pitch there was then tended by a lady groundsperson and was in better shape at the end of the season than many others were at the beginning. The tea interval was replaced by fish and chips after the game and occasionally all bowling had to be from one end as the sun got low behind the bowler's arm at the other. Happy days!
It's cold enough trying to play cricket in England without doing it into October. Thats winter!
If they can play rugby league and cricket in the summer then why not cricket in the winter?!?
When at university I played in a game on May 1 when snow stopped play: we even tried to carry on but had to stop when it started to settle! October is tropical compared to that.
I can remember playing hockey and cricket on the same New Years' Day. It was a great way to cope with the excess of the night before.
I seriously dislike artificial wickets but surely they have a role through the winter?
In the end Mr Anonymous above got it right: it seems to have been cold, wet and windy pretty well everywhere yesterday, certainly not cricket weather.
Agreed - glad I didn't have to waste part of a day travelling to a match that wouldn't have finished even if we were lucky enough with the weather to start....
I can't help thinking that Grov is onto something with the artificial wicket comment though....
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