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CC : Durham v Hampshire

Images from the companies website. Hardly conclusive proof of use.

I’m not really sure what people are trying to suggest to be honest. The whole of English cricket don’t know the best most viable way to protect a pitch? Durham didn’t want the game to be played? Durham wanted to make money from members when they knew it wouldn’t be played even though a championship match costs the club to put on and it would have been easier to cancel each day the day before if it was conclusively unplayable? The groundstaff who have prepared test match pitches and barely lost a days play in years are incompetent?
 

The playing area at the Riverside is probably 5 or 6 times bigger than the stadia which have been posted in this thread. Nobody has been able to say how much the installation and maintenance of a cover would be. Multi millions I would guess.

Durham turned a modest profit last season. They could have gone out of existence a few years ago due to unsustainable losses. Where would they get the money from to fund this project, even if it was scientifically viable? I’d suggest the club can’t afford it, so where would the funding come from?
 
mosi said:
The playing area at the Riverside is probably 5 or 6 times bigger than the stadia which have been posted in this thread. Nobody has been able to say how much the installation and maintenance of a cover would be. Multi millions I would guess.

Durham turned a modest profit last season. They could have gone out of existence a few years ago due to unsustainable losses. Where would they get the money from to fund this project, even if it was scientifically viable? I’d suggest the club can’t afford it, so where would the funding come from?
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It’s a totally pointless argument.

The word from the first day was that the run ups were dangerous - they would’ve been covered, yet they were still dangerous. Go figure…
 
It’s the same ground as before from the same company.

Anyway as stated it wasn’t a problem with the uncovered areas so it’s an irrelevant point.

Pitch covers are used to protect the pitch from rain showers not six months of rain. I’m sure everything practically possible was done to get this game played.
 
mosi said:
The playing area at the Riverside is probably 5 or 6 times bigger than the stadia which have been posted in this thread. Nobody has been able to say how much the installation and maintenance of a cover would be. Multi millions I would guess.

Durham turned a modest profit last season. They could have gone out of existence a few years ago due to unsustainable losses. Where would they get the money from to fund this project, even if it was scientifically viable? I’d suggest the club can’t afford it, so where would the funding come from?
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I think the proposition is that Durham should spend the money even if they don't have it.
 
Its a no brainer that the match will be called off early tomorrow as @brandon has said so being at something of a loose end this afternoon I decided to have a sift through my old Wisdens/Yearbooks to see how many of our home fixtures have been abandoned without a ball being bowled since 1992. It's a surprisingly low number (I'm not including Surrey's infamous no show in 2021).

Aug 12-15 2008 v Notts

July 2-5 1997 v Hampshire.
The quote in Wisden which will have been from Tim Wellock was -Prolonged rain left the outfield so wet that the match had to be abandoned on the final day. "I feel sorry for the groundsman" said captain David Boon. "He has worked his socks off".
 
Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan said:
About three times. Durham's playing area is 2.1 hectares and Toronto's BMO field playing field is 0.714 hectares.

Go on then......

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Loss of 1 days play at a test match circa £2.4m i.e 24000x£100. Are you seriously implying that County and ECB officers haven't seriously looked at ways of covering the whole playing area?
Patent your invention if you're that convinced-you could be in your way to a fortune.
The Red Telephone said:
Its a no brainer that the match will be called off early tomorrow as @brandon has said so being at something of a loose end this afternoon I decided to have a sift through my old Wisdens/Yearbooks to see how many of our home fixtures have been abandoned without a ball being bowled since 1992. It's a surprisingly low number (I'm not including Surrey's infamous no show in 2021).

Aug 12-15 2008 v Notts

July 2-5 1997 v Hampshire.
The quote in Wisden which will have been from Tim Wellock was -Prolonged rain left the outfield so wet that the match had to be abandoned on the final day. "I feel sorry for the groundsman" said captain David Boon. "He has worked his socks off".
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Marty . could have saved you the research. Typically he produced those stats when announcing the abandonment🤔
 
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Well looking for something positive the BBC forecast for Birmingham looks decent from next Friday to Monday especially first two days. So it looks like we will definitely actually start our season.
 
There’s every chance that not a single game from this opening round of fixtures will yield a win for any side - it might not be a bad thing to be missing a Kookaburra round either.
 
Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan said:
About three times. Durham's playing area is 2.1 hectares and Toronto's BMO field playing field is 0.714 hectares.
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So you’ve answered my point about the respective sizes of playing area (you’ll have surmised that I was guessing 😁) and you’ve said in a previous post that you don’t know how much this project would cost. You don’t however contradict my point that it would be multi million.

So what is your view about who should pay for all this? 😁
 
What difference would it make buying this massive tent to cover the edges of the field, when the area causing concern is the bowlers run up - which is covered anyway?
 
consettsafc said:
Great stuff what was the score and by any chance do you know who the scorers were?
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Buccs won their title yesterday in a penalty shoot out, it was 3-3. Geldart, Greenhalgh X2. Billingham Stars unfortunately lost on pens but a tremendous weekend and a good weekend for Billingham as a town and to bring 1 trophy home from the weekend was a good outcome. Stars league champions, Buccs Play Off Champions in Division 2 in their first season, we would have all settled for that. Absolutely brilliant weekend though.
 
Well Saved a days holiday at least, knew i couldnt make the first 3 this week, but had taken today off hoping id see an exciting finish, rained again overnight so writing it off now
 
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