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| Publication Type:
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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| Title: | Cricket strip preparation |
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| Section: | Enquiries and replies
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| Source: | Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 70, 1994, p. 145-146. |
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| Publishing Information: | Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK: The Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "Complaints are regularly received about the uneven bounce on strips we prepare for a weekends matches. The table is maintained by one or two members and our budget is tight. Is there anything we can do within our means to prepare a better, i.e. more reliable, surface for play?" |
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| Answer/Response: | "Preparation of a decent cricket strip is one of the few turf maintenance procedures which demands the use of a heavy roller, i.e. one weighing between 0.5 to 1 tonne. The unreliable bounce from your prepared strips is basically a consequence of under rolling, the only roller in your possession is an outfield mower, totally inadequate for necessary consolidation. The financial status of the club defies the purchase of a suitable ride-on roller and we suggest that you hire a heavy roller pre-season and on one or two occasions during the summer, when ground conditions are favourable for its use to consolidate the soil through the top 100 mm. Use the 91 cm mower on strips under preparation, adding extra weights in the grass box to provide a final polish to the surface. Although not ideal, the additional rolling should help produce a more uniform bounce. There are other aspects of your current maintenance programme unsuited to the limited attention given to the table, particularly the selection of top dressing and grass seed. Top dressing for cricket must be carefully selected to match the expectations for play and practicalities of management. If the soil used has too high a clay content the limited time given to the strips under preparation will produce inferior results. In essence, the higher the clay content the more difficult it is to sustain a grass cover and the grass is a vital component in the production of cricket strips, strong root action essential to assist the binding of soil and hence, consolidation under rolling. In this instance a clay loam dressing containing 28-30% clay will be perfectly adequate. Grass composition must also be assessed to determine which species are most suited to the level of maintenance. Your situation favours a blend of fine-leaved fescue and bent through the body of the table with a quality, harder-wearing, perennial ryegrass incorporated along wicket ends." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Alternate event preparation; Cricket pitches; Recommendations; Rollers; Sports turf maintenance; Surface quality
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Sports Turf Research Institute. 1994. Cricket strip preparation. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 70:p. 145-146. |
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