tigerpie wrote:Senor Moto Gadili wrote:tigerpie wrote:The option's given to us at a meeting with saca were...prepare extra wickets each week or tell the seniors to suck it up and put up with the damage on game day.
Maybe the big boys at CA should do some R & D on some sort of mats.
What would 3 hours of having a mat on them do yo the wicket. I don't know? It may be an option
Apologies if this has been covered. Someone suggested that the kids only bat at one end, which means you can put down some portable stumps and mark a popping crease with tape at the non strikers end. Is that not an acceptable solution for SACA?
The problem with that though is wear 2 metres from the front line.
The no go area is 1.5. 40 overs from one end would be an issue on dry dusty decks and kids with spikes.
I'm all for finding a solution to this as I want our kids playing on turf.
The only solution is separate wickets each week.
If your only solution is to prepare two pitches, with one being a dedicated pitch for U12s, can you run through what the U12 pitch looks like. Do you shorten each end by 1 metre or one end by two metres. Do you paints the creases? Are stumps tbe portable ones that are not hammered into the ground?