No posts for a while been busy preparing and repairing pitches senior, junior, county age groups, and private hires. In the back ground we have been having a new kitchen fit at home. I have been juggling a lot of balls recently and the blog was the one I dropped. I have also had problems with the small camera I purchased last December I took it back to the shop today and got a new one to replace it. some of the photos are with the old one and some with the new.
Andy Siddall our 1st team skipper on his way to his first hundred of the season -30th June.
The hot dry weather has given me the ability to double cut the outfield with the mastiff for first team matches and County age group for the seconds and T20 I run over with the gangs still retaining the stripes.
Before the recent rain I had lost a lot of grass on the outfield the above shows the ground on the 5th July as the hot weather was just getting going.
This is the mess the kitchen was in after two days.
I am a little mixed up with the photos so things are not in chronological order sorry. This is a second team pitch about the 21st June. You can see the repairs I have had to make to the block hole and the bowlers front foot with so much cricket I have to make pitches last so as long as the ball pitching area is good I repair the foot holes I do object to repairing the block hole though as it is not necessary for batters to dig a deep or indeed long hole - I think a certain Mr Trott has something to answer for.
This is an unusual photo in so far as I cut the pitches as a whole in stripes and not in the narrow ones you see here This is because I had just verti-cut and brushed the adjacent pitches so I left the small stripes in for a change.
I know the weather has been good but I still get orders in for the "Magic Sponge" the water mopping machine I designed and developed way back in the nineties. At £440-00 +VAT I believe they are the most competitively priced machine on the market and affordable to small clubs.
I build them up to order at this time of year.
This coming Sunday I have the Finals of the Headingley T20 Competition -2 semis and a final on the same day- and on the 18th August I have the League second teams cup final.
So I have produced a stencil which enables me to print the club motif on the outfield it is quite big around 8 foot square. I contacted Jason and Ryan the Rugby League groundsmen at Headingley Rugby stadium who were very helpful with advice and tips.
I have a few more photos I will post soon and a new camera so lets hope I am inspired and have a little time especially as Junior cricket is now at an end.
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Go on then maybe a couple more photo taken this evening about 5-00 pm
Saves me watering for a while.
"Magic Sponge" hot line 07831715355 See Yer!
Hodgy
