Tony Clifton wrote:tigerpie wrote:Tony Clifton wrote:tigerpie wrote:Atca threatened with disaffiliation over the pitch shortening fiasco for u12's.
What are your thoughts on playing on a Saturday after a Friday night u12's game with scuff marks just short of the danger area?
11 year olds will do stuff all to the pitch
Angst over nothing
We had a trial and kids with spikes
made a nice furrow marking centre.I'm not the only one thinking its unworkable at community level.
Is there any possible solution to this?
Yep. Ours will go to hard wicket.
The other option is having 2 wickets prepped every week.
Double the work for curators. Double water usage. Add in the extra grounds. Some have 3.
At community level that's a nightmare.
CA are trying to standardise the game at schoolboys level. I'm all for that!
The national schoolboys championship is on turf on shortened wickets.
They are leaning on SACA and they're leaning on ATCA.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for making improvements to junior cricket but at community level its just silly.
Do it at district cricket by all means. CA cough up the bill at that level of cricket.
There you are.... Solved!