Minging and beautiful cricket pitches

someblokecalleddave · 20 Apr 2008, 16:10

Here's another photography based thread. I reckon the team I play for has got to be one of the rougher cricket pitches in the UK. It's over-shadowed by 2 blocks of council flats and the residents hang about outside of the flats with their Rottweilers and Pit Bull terriers riding trials bikes up and down the edge of the pitch as the dogs chase after then snarling and barking. 14 year old girls (Think Vicky Pollard with a East End accent) with their children in push-chairs walk blatantly across the pitch mid game and if confronted tell us where to go using very colourful language. So you get the picture? I'll try and sum up the ambience with some photo's in the near future - but is yours this rough and does it look rough or have you got a picturesque cricket pitch with a church and Oak Trees surrounding it and a lovely pavillion - let's have a look? let's see the good, the bad and the ugly?

bitsandpieces · 20 Apr 2008, 17:25

Great idea for a thread. When I get back to uni I'll get some snaps of my ground. It's the outfield that's more ugly than anything... damn rugby players!! Last season we had 1 match where there were barely any boundaries due to long rifts in the outfield half a foot deep! Hardly ideal

madbunny · 20 Apr 2008, 20:33

Yeh well some of ours are burnt just short of a length. So judging length can sometimes be trickier than it seems!

Jonesy · 20 Apr 2008, 21:32

Will try and get some photos, but yeh, actually I could get lots of them, but none of the pitch itself as it's now dug up for the VFL team that play on it. I'll google it, actually, then walk down there one day when there's a VFL game on, pity Box Hill Hawks (the team that play on the ground) and Bendigo Bombers (the VFL team that are connected with club I support in AFL) don't play down here, boo.

Stumped · 21 Apr 2008, 01:07

I think ours classes as Good, Village setting, not a council block for 10 miles! no chavs, no kids, old folks home over looking the ground.... quiet idillic village cricket!

Jonesy · 21 Apr 2008, 02:10

I wanna come play there.

Stumped · 21 Apr 2008, 02:31

Everybody is welcome at Widford (The Home of Ware OHcc)!

the more the merrier!

Jonesy · 21 Apr 2008, 05:05

If you pay for the airfares and accommodation!

**mas cambios** · 24 Apr 2008, 18:33

Have a real mixture round by me. Some great, some not so great. I'll try to get some photos as the season goes on for comparison.

Currently play in the grounds of a psychiatric hospital, which is ok. A bit of trouble from kids breaking into the ground but generally it seems ok. Just next to that is another club which is set inside a sort of nature reserve, so that is quite nice as well.

From where I'm used to playing then the grounds tend to be ok, mostly located in villages or small towns so they tend to be quiet with little vandalism. Although, playing in Gloucester can be a challenge at times but it depends on where you are.

Jonesy · 24 Apr 2008, 21:42

My ground was on TV last night! I'll try to get the video but I doubt I can.