To Glue or Not To Glue…….

May 13th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized

Good weather at last!!! Its an unbelievable turnaround here. From having rain every day to having unseasonally high temperatures! Its been in the mid 20s for the last week, thats about 6 or 7 degrees higher than the average for this time of year. How long will it last?? There have been some complaints that it been too hot but not from me! Its just great getting up in the morning and not having to worry about pulling covers on and off or clearing water off the pitch.

So I had another new experience since I have arrived here, we glued a wicket! Yes you heard me correctly, we glued a pitch!! We were playing Hampshire in the Friends Provident Trophy last sunday. The wicket we were preparing had a high percentage of silt on it. This silt was a result of the floods that occured before the season began. The majority of silt had been removed but for some reason this wicket had more remaining on it.

As I have said before the silt doesn’t majorily affect the way the wicket plays so we weren’t too worried initially. As the dry weather came in the wicket started drying out quite quickly so we kept moisture in it by lightly watering and using the sheets.  But as it got closer to the game the wicket started to crack a little bit more than we would like and the some of the silt started to curl up from the soil. So glueing was mentioned.

I’ve obviously heard about glueing, and did a bit of research into it whilst I was at Clontarf but never tried it as all the stories differed. At Worcester they have done it quite a bit and got good results from it. Basically by glueing the wicket it helps with the wear and tear on it and holds the cracks together. But it will not make a bad wicket good!!! The glue is not a quick-fix to getting a good wicket without putting the work in!!

After a discussion with the coach, Stephen Rhodes, on the day before the game it was agreed that the wicket would be glued. Out came the glue and it was mixed up, approx 60-40. It was put on the wicket 24 hours before the game. The glue was applied by a knapsack sprayer and 16 litres was put out on the wicket and let dry. It is regular PVA glue that was bought in a hardware store. When applied it came out white then dried to make the ground look very dark and gave the impression that the ground was damp. The raised covers were then put on until the next morning. 

I was very keen to see the results the next day. Off came the covers and I got my first look at a glued wicket!! It looked ugly!!! If you didn’t know it was glued you would think it looked like a terrible wicket to play on! The grass hard gone hard. When the sun shone there was a shine and glean from the ground. To touch it the pitch felt very hard, thats a result of the skin of glue on the top. The cracks that were there did now not move and were very firm. I was keen to see how it played. All we did that morning was roll the wicket for half an hour and put the stumps up!! There are pictures in the Photo Gallery before and after of the glued wicket.

We played a weak Hampshire team, they were missing 7 1st team players as a result of injuries, IPL commitments and England selections. They couldn’t compete with us, they batted first and scored 209 and we got it with only 1 wicket down with 22 overs to spare. The wicket played well with what looked like a little bit more extra pace in it than we have had in previous games. A great days cricket was had with over 2000 people in the ground enjoying the good weather.

We host Gloucestershire CCC tomorrow in the 4 Day Championship, the wicket looks like the best one we’ve had so far this season so fingers crossed for some more good weather and another home win!!!

  1. 106 Responses to “To Glue or Not To Glue…….”

  2. By laura on May 13, 2008

    Mackey…. thats more like it!!!!

    glue??? really??? excellent… although alas i am not really too sure as to why cracks would have been a major problem… is it cos the ball might have bounced awkwardly???

    seriously i am a cricket beginner… keep this info coming…

    thoroughly enjoying it!!! :)

    hope the 4 day match is a cracker!!! and that the sun stays shining!!! :)

    laura x

  3. By John Cotter on May 14, 2008

    There is an obvious “what the hell are ye snifing” joke to be made here, but in all honesty that looks a bit mad, the shine off the crease is something else, was it not annoying the batsmen? Interesting stuff though, glad to hear the sun does shine there now and again!

  4. By laura on May 29, 2008

    hurry up and write a new blog entry…. :)

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