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Content Type:Q & A
Corporate Author(s):Sports Turf Research Institute
Title:Slow wickets
Section:Enquiries and replies
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Source:Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 55, 1979, p. 173.
Publishing Information:Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK: The Sports Turf Research Institute
# of Pages:1
Question:"This season our cricketers are complaining that wickets are slow and "dead". I send you a sample cut out of one of the worst wickets and would welcome your comments."
Answer/Response:"Judging by this sample it would appear that the turf on the square is too soft and fibrous to produce good wickets - grass root growth seems to be poorly developed also. We would suggest that as soon as the cricket season ends you give the whole square a really thorough scarifying, removing as much of the surface fibre as you can. Then we would think it advisable to spike deeply with a good spiking machine with solid tines, prick with a spiked roller and oversow completely at 35 g/m2 (1 oz./sq. yd.). A suitable mixture of bent and fescue should be used between the popping creases. Follow up with a light top dressing of suitable screened heavy clay loam and repeat the dressing in about 3 weeks' time. Work the dressings in well each time, preferably with a wide straight-edge. Wicket ends should be renovated according to your normal practice, but if you are seeding rather than turfing we would suggest the addition of a good persistent cultivar of perennial ryegrass to the bent/fescue mixture. Send a representative soil sample from the square to the Institute in the autumn for a pH test; over-acidity can encourage the development of excessive fibre and we will inform you, following the test on the soil sample, whether liming is needed and if so how much."
Keywords:TIC Keywords: Cricket pitches; Cricket wickets; Player perceptions; Recommendations; Sports turf maintenance; Sports turf renovation; Surface quality
Language:English
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Sports Turf Research Institute. 1979. Slow wickets. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 55:p. 173.
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