Magazine: Cricket

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ICC Pitch Consultant Atkinson to visit India
Cricket - By Editor (30 Aug 10 6:00)
With less than six months to go for the commencement of the 2011 World Cup in the sub continent, International Cricket Council's pitch consultant Andy Atkinson will make a visit to India early next month. - Read Article

SACA to Ease Fears in Pitch Battle
Cricket - By Editor (22 Aug 10 6:00)
Cricket has moved to defuse growing unease about drop-in pitches at Adelaide Oval. - Read Article

Artificial turf for 1st class?
Cricket - By Editor (20 Aug 10 8:00)
If all goes to plan, Kolkata could well be the first venue in India to stage first-class cricket matches on artificial turf. - Read Article

Cricket Unites Afghanistan
Cricket - By Editor (19 Aug 10 19:40)
In war-torn Afghanistan, the national cricket team have become a symbol of hope, uniting the entire country. Even the Taliban are fans. - Read Article

Battle over Drop-in Pitches
Cricket - 1 comment - By Editor (17 Aug 10 10:50)
Opposition to drop-in pitches has emerged as a potential killer blow to Adelaide Oval's metamorphosis into a 50,000-capacity stadium. - Read Article

Cricket Releases MCG for Grand Final
Cricket - By Editor (09 Aug 10 9:00)
A day after the AFL threatened to move next year's grand final from the MCG, Cricket Victoria (CV) has confirmed the ground will be available. - Read Article

WACA Downsizes to Stay Pure to Cricket
Cricket - By Editor (02 Aug 10 8:00)
While the rest of Australia's cricket stadiums expand, the WACA Ground is downsizing to accommodate residential apartments and commercial buildings. - Read Article

Eden Park Changes Create the Perfect Match
Cricket - By Editor (19 Jul 10 6:00)
Cricket at Eden Park will be a whole new ball game from this summer. Although next year's Rugby World Cup is the reason behind the park's multi-million dollar makeover, one-day and Twenty20 matches will return to a park very differently configured. - Read Article

SCG Secures International Cricket
Cricket - By Editor (14 Jul 10 11:00)
Cricket Australia have agreed a deal to keep international cricket at the Sydney Cricket Ground for the next five years. - Read Article

Les Burdett has Drawn Stumps
Cricket - By Editor (05 Jul 10 9:15)
After 41 summers preparing cricket wickets at Adelaide Oval, world renowned curator Les Burdett has drawn stumps on his career, downplaying his influence on the game. - Read Article

Drop In Pitches for Adelaide Oval
Cricket - By Editor (05 Jul 10 6:00)
Adelaide Oval famous wicket square will be dug up and replaced with drop-in pitches when Australian football returns. - Read Article

MCG Shield Final to Stay
Cricket - By Editor (21 Jun 10 13:00)
Cricket Victoria has told the AFL it has no intention of moving the Sheffield Shield final from the MCG next season, leaving the league with little option but to break with tradition when it configures its extended football season for 2011. - Read Article

Groundsman’s Charitable Deeds for Tsunami-Ravaged Phuket
Cricket - By Editor (31 May 10 6:00)
A groundsman’s charitable deeds hope to ensure the tsunami-ravaged community of Phuket continues to recover from its devastating natural disaster six years ago. - Read Article

Can America Catch the Cricket Bug?
Cricket - By Editor (29 May 10 6:00)
For a team sport to succeed in the United States, it usually needs to have been born there. A sport that can last for ages; sometimes doesn't produce a winner; and looks to many American eyes like a deeply weird version of baseball where the ball bounces, nothing much happens if a batter misses it, and you're never quite sure who's winning? It's a longshot. - Read Article

The Keeper of the hallowed turf
Cricket - By Tom James (28 May 10 6:00)
Mick Hunt is celebrating twenty-five years as head groundsman at one of the most prestigious sporting venues in the world, the iconic Lord’s. Tom James talks to him about his career and the pressures he faces to maintain the hallowed turf which is the home of cricket! - Read Article

Rolling Up Seddon Park
Cricket - By Editor (07 May 10 12:00)
Black Cap Quick Brent Arnel loves Seddon Park so much, he's taken about 40 square metres home as a permanent memento. - Read Article

Cricket Pitch Decimated by 'Meathead' Motorcyclist
Cricket - By Editor (29 Apr 10 13:00)
Under the cover of darkness, a joy-riding vandal on a scooter has wreaked havoc on the cricket pitch at the Harry Barker Reserve. - Read Article

Mud to Ashes in the UK
Cricket - By James Westwood STRI (22 Apr 10 13:00)
In early 2008, Yorkshire County Cricket Club was awarded a £600,000 grant from the ECB to redevelop the outfield at the Headingley Carnegie Stadium. - Read Article

Seddon Park Turf up for Sale
Cricket - By Editor (08 Apr 10 20:00)
You can have a chunk of mid-off, a piece of extra cover, or if you're the boundary-riding type, take a slice of deep fine leg for $4 a square metre. - Read Article

International Cricket Coming to ANZ Stadium
Cricket - By Editor (31 Mar 10 10:35)
International cricket in Sydney will be shifted from the Sydney Cricket Ground for the first time in 128 years under a new tenancy agreement struck by Cricket New South Wales, the Premier Kristina Keneally announced today. - Read Article

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