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"groundsman" Definitions
  1. a person whose job is to take care of a sports ground or large garden
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"The groundsman is probably fed up with getting my texts every 20 minutes," he said.
It is hard not to feel sorry for John Ledwidge, Leicester City's groundsman, and his team.
The 28-year-old works as a groundsman at a sports complex in Glyfada, a seaside suburb of Athens.
British media also reported that Palace's assistant head groundsman Dean Waters had condemned the vandals and revealed their error.
James Williams, London Stadium's head groundsman, said that his crew has had to learn many new things about baseball fields.
The lease requires taxpayers to pay for grow lights, which, according to the groundsman at Crystal Palace, cost £259,250 per rig.
The final job will fall to John Ledwidge, the groundsman whose creativity inspired so many of Leicester's eye-catching field designs toward the end of last season.
LONDON (Reuters) - Wimbledon's head groundsman Neil Stubley spends most of his waking hours worrying about the 18 championship lawns under his command in the weeks leading up to the tournament.
But if they turn to their right, they get a box-office view of the inside of Wembley stadium, featuring 90,000 seats and a groundsman slowly mowing an immaculate green pitch.
One speaker at the festival, who called himself the "guerrilla groundsman" and masked his identity with a helmet, described his surreptitious efforts to clean bridges and repaint signs in Cambridge without authorisation.
The new owners haven't moved in yet, but their groundsman and his family occupy the basement of our old house, and spend their days sitting on the plastic garden chairs we left behind.
A judge in California slashed the amount in total damages—from $6.23m to $78m—awarded by a jury to a school groundsman who claims his cancer was caused by Roundup, a weedkiller made by Monsanto.
"Some parts of football have become very uniform, so you want things that are going to be different from every other club," said Gareth Read, the head groundsman at Crystal Palace, which has never won the F.A. Cup.
"It's a case of managing the courts as and when they come back all the way through winter and spring," Stubley, working at his 23rd Wimbledon and sixth as head groundsman since the green-fingered Eddie Seward signed off in 2012.
He was a cocky, all-knowing Mokummer, master of the one-liner delivered in best Amsterdam slang: a poor boy from Betondorp, "Concrete Village", who got into the Ajax junior academy mostly because his mother cleaned at the club and his stepfather was a groundsman.
Every attempt will be made to get the games in, and Williams, the stadium groundsman, said the field drainage system — which was put to the test by heavy downpours earlier this month — was enhanced for the series, with extra piping placed beneath a layer of stone chips.
He is currently the groundsman at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown.
He was the groundsman at Cobham Oval in Whangarei from the 1970s to the 2000s.
He later took as job as the groundsman of the Imperial Sports Ground in Knowle, Bristol.
Schluter was born on 11 January 1999. He works at as groundsman at the Kawana Waters Aquatic Centre.
Denis Dawson was head groundsman from 1966 to 1975; he succeeded Len Parton and was followed by Graham Mainwaring.
After leaving football management in 1968, Gray later worked as a groundsman at Meadow Lane and the City Ground.
Jonny Blair is a Scottish film director and screenwriter best known for his short film The Groundsman starring David O'Hara. His film, The Groundsman won the Best Fiction and Best Editing accolades at the 2014 British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards. Blair is a graduate of the National Film and Television School.
Albert Purdy (15 March 1899 – June 1991) was an English professional football wing half who appeared in the Football League for Charlton Athletic, Southend United and Brentford. While a player with Charlton Athletic, he doubled as the club's groundsman. After his retirement as a player, Purdy became the head groundsman at Fulham and lived in the Craven Cottage.
John Thomas supported Mr. Davies. > ....Mr. John Owen Parry said that when the Council were good enough to > allow the Cricket Club to put up a pavilion, he had himself a site in mind > that was, under the old tree. When he discussed the matter with the > groundsman, he suggested this to the groundsman as the best place.
He ran the club's youth hostel,"George Robertson". Plymouth Argyle. Retrieved 23 June 2010. before being appointed as groundsman in the 1980s.
Also at the house is another anti-communist Russian POW who is now the groundsman, and serves as a witness to murder.
Taylor was manager of Peterborough United for the 1936–37 Midland League season. He also served the club as trainer and groundsman.
Geary subsequently returned to Goodison Park as a groundsman. He died on 8 January 1955, a fortnight short of his 87th birthday.
He held the post of groundsman until his sudden death from a heart attack in January 1904 at the age of 51.
Low remained with Newcastle after his playing retirement, firstly as a coach for the Swifts junior side, then latterly as the club's groundsman.
He remained on the club staff as groundsman for nearly 30 years. Howard died in Brighton in 2007 at the age of 76.
The groundsman then visits the four, and agrees to help them if they will take him to Storybrooke. After Zelena gives the groundsman her broken wand to repair, the orderly, Poole, finds him and takes Zelena's wand, then pours a blue potion down his throat which turns him into the warden himself. It turns out that the groundsman is actually Dr. Jekyll, and the warden is Mr. Hyde. He creates a portal using the wand, and pulls Pandora's Box from New York City, thus throwing a wrench into Gold's plans to free Belle from the sleeping curse.
Irvin Barraclough was born in Ackworth, Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, his birth was registered in Hemsworth district, West Riding of Yorkshire, after his rugby league playing career, he worked as the Deputy Head Groundsman, and then Head Groundsman at the University of Leeds Athletics Grounds at Weetwood, Leeds until he retired, he died aged 80 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Landick started working at Jersey Airport whilst playing rugby for Jersey. He was then offered the job as groundsman of Jersey. He accepted and worked on the pitches at St. Peter while also playing rugby for Jersey. According to Landick, this may mean that he is the only first team player who is also the groundsman of the team for which he plays.
He had to give up being a groundsman due to an arthritic hip, which required an operation. He was soon after employed as a sports consultant with Berk Chemicals. He later became the Official Inspector of Pitches for the Test and County Cricket Board. Outside of his work as a groundsman, he ran a course at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
The playing surface at Portman Road is highly regarded and has been voted best pitch in the league on a number of occasions. The former groundsman, Alan Ferguson, received a number of accolades, including both Premiership and Championship Groundsman of the Year. The stadium has also hosted many England youth international matches, and one senior England friendly international match, against Croatia in 2003.
After his playing career he became the groundsman and coach at Cheltenham College.Wisden 2005, p. 1638. He died on 2 January 2004, aged 85.
By then some 84 members were serving in the army or navy, and a groundsman had been killed and another was a prisoner of war.
The club's main administration facilities are also located in this stand. There are four bars, one located inside each of the stands, which are all open before and during games. Other features of the stadium include the scoreboard located on the roof of the East stand, and the Police Control Box located in the corner between the South and East stands. Groundsman Simon Marshall has received several accolades for his maintenance of the Pirelli Stadium pitch, including runner-up for Groundsman Of The Year in the Football Conference for the 2008–09 season, and Groundsman Of The Year in Football League Two for the 2009–10 season.
The Oval, which Lock famously prepared in time for the 1946 season following six years of military use Lock's career as a groundsman began in 1922 when he was on the ground staff for the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the Surrey ground staff in the same year, an association which lasted until 1932 when he joined Devon, becoming their head groundsman at the County Ground, Exeter. The war brought a break in his career as a groundsman, as he served in the Royal Air Force. In May 1942 a Luftwaffe bomb hit his home, killing a guest staying there and several neighbours.
Kail married Irene Margaret Ramsey, daughter of Dulwich Hamlet groundsman, Dalhousie Ramsey in Camberwell in February 1926. He died in Skelmorlie, Ayrshire in 1976 from a stroke.
In 2008, Glynn was appointed manager of Flackwell Heath, but resigned at the end of the 2008–09 season. However, he later became club chairman and groundsman.
Henry earned the Premier League Golden Boot, scoring 24 league goals – one more than van Nistelrooy, while Paul Burgess was named "Premier League Groundsman of the Year".
After leaving Wrexham he would move to Holywell Town. Post playing-career, Parker would work for Wrexham as a groundsman and a gatesman, and take up refereeing.
He returned to Australia and, in December 1870, while batting at the South Melbourne Cricket Club, where he was the groundsman, he suffered a fatal heart attack.
In 2005, he worked as a traffic controller and a groundsman. In 2005, he was awarded a certificate for fifteen years service to Queensland State Emergency Service.
Reeves had three sons. He began his time with Reading as a groundsman and after his retirement from football, became the Co-op dairy's Southern Regional Manager.
Amos Bartholomew (26 May 1825 – 4 November 1907) was an English cricketer who played in four first-class cricket matches between 1853 and 1864.Amos Bartholomew, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-03-22. Bartholomew was born and died in Sevenoaks in Kent and was employed as a professional cricketer, umpire and groundsman at Sevenoaks Vine and groundsman at Wildernesse, the home of Charles Mills, 1st Baron Hillingdon, near the town.
After his professional career was over, Stansbridge made a few appearances for Basingstoke Town and found employment at the Southampton Sports Centre as a groundsman. In 1962, he returned to The Dell when he became Southampton's groundsman where he continued to maintain the pitch until eventually retiring in the summer of 1984. Stansbridge did not enjoy a long retirement, as he died two years later in May 1986.
During her childhood she lived with her family at the New Eltham Sportsground where her father was a groundsman. Her great uncle was England cricket international Arthur Fielder.
The groundsman, Tharanga Indika, who is in-charge of the cricket ground was found guilty for helping the bookmakers to engage in match-fixing after allowing them to doctor the pitch conditions. The allegations were revealed by the Al Jazeera news network which filmed both the groundsman and the other match fixers on their targets of match-fixing. Robin Morris was intended to have influenced in fixing allegations relating to Sri Lankan home matches for attempting pitch tampering by the ICC during Sri Lanka's 2nd test match against Australia in Galle and Sri Lanka's 1st test match against India in Galle. Morris was reported to have given bribes to groundsman, Tharanga Indika, who works as the groundsman at the Galle International Stadium to monitor the pitch conditions in those two home matches played by Sri Lanka against Australia in 2016 and India in 2017, and was noticed to have earned from betting after analyzing the Galle pitch conditions.
He left school at 14 to work as a groundsman on a local country estate. He started as an engine cleaner on the York to Scarborough Line aged 16.
He retired in 1965 to concentrate on landscape gardening and his work as a cricket groundsman. Horner died in Driffield, Yorkshire in December 2003, at the age of 77.
At the age of 40 in 1931 he finally settled down taking up the post of groundsman at Chelmsford City a position he kept until his death in 1963.
Edward Hickmott, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 August 2020. From 1880 he was employed as groundsman and as a professional by The Mote in Maidstone, a job which lasted until 1920.
In June 1922, Boyes was given a free transfer to Bristol Rovers where he made two first-team appearances before returning to the south coast, joining Poole for their first season in the Western League, followed by a season with Weymouth. In 1928, he became Pirelli General's groundsman at Dew Lane, Eastleigh; he continued to turn out for the club on occasions until 1940, but remained the groundsman until he retired in 1960.
In 1866 Norley was employed by the Clydeside Cricket Club at Glasgow and in 1868 by St George's Cricket Club in Manhattan, New York. He remained as a player and groundsman with St George's throughout the 1870s before moving to Canada during the 1880s - in 1884 he was employed as a coach and groundsman by Trinity College School at Port Hope, Ontario. Norley married Clara Nesbitt at Newark, New Jersey in 1869.
Harefield United play their games at Preston Park, Breakspear Road North, Harefield UB9 6NE. In 2010 the ground won the Steps 5 and 6 National Award for Groundsman of the year.
Robin Morris, a professional cricketer from Mumbai, was suspected by the ICC of playing a major role in match fixing during Sri Lanka home Test series against both Australia in 2016 and against India in 2017. The Al Jazeera news channel allegedly discovered that the groundsman of the Galle International Stadium and Robin Morris had planned to fix the 1st test match between England and Sri Lanka held in Galle. Robin Morris told the under cover reporters that he bribed the groundsman to monitor and alter the conditions of the pitch in order to guarantee certain outcomes. Al Jazeera's documentary Cricket's Match-Fixers has identified the groundsman and Robin Morris along with another Sri Lankan, Tharindu Mendis, for planning to alter the pitch conditions.
Since his retirement from playing, Kelly has worked as a groundsman in Adelaide. He supervised the preparation of the pitches used for the opening rounds of the 2020–21 Sheffield Shield season.
Henry John Bass (14 October 1852 – 24 January 1904), known as Harry Bass, was an English cricket groundsman who played three first-class cricket matches between 1871 and 1875.Harry Bass, CricInfo.
Lewis spent the 1947–48 season back in the Third Division South with Brighton & Hove Albion before joining Dartford, where he remained until 1952, when he took up a position as groundsman.
Mason, p. 21. Early in 1902, Hobbs was appointed as assistant to the professional cricket coach at Bedford School,McKinstry, p. 39. working as a groundsman and bowling in the nets.Arlott, p. 23.
Witherden was released by Norfolk with a year to run on his contract in order to take up the post of head groundsman at Bishop's Stortford College in 1963. He remained in the post until he retired in 1986 with his son, Nigel, following him to become a groundsman at the college. Witherden also coached the college cricket team and continued to play cricket for Bishop's Stortford Cricket Club.Top Field Renamed 'The Witherden Field', Bishop's Stortford College, 11 December 2019.
Billy Banks was married to Sadie A. (née Williams), daughter of Annie (née Davies) and Gomer Williams of MacGregor Row, Maesteg, Gomer was a coal miner and then groundsman at Maesteg RFC for many years.
Beginning with the 1912 season, Williams, working as a groundsman at Lord's, also turned out for the MCC in several non-first-class matches.Miscellaneous matches played by Joseph Williams (9) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
He coached the Northampton team in the mid-1980 and then became head groundsman at Northampton's Franklin's Gardens ground until his retirement in 2015. Powell is one of the members of Northampton's Hall of Fame.
The Groundsman is a 2013 short film produced by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Written & Directed by Jonny Blair, Starring David O'Hara. The film depicts a lonely football groundsman named Keith (O'Hara) who finds out his club has gone out of business, but instead of moving on with his life and acknowledging his past affairs, he tries his utmost to keep the club running. The film screened for the first time at Cineworld in Glasgow on 20 June 2013 with the four other graduation films.
Herbert 'Bert' Christmas Lock (8 May 1903 - 19 May 1978) was an English cricketer and prominent groundsman. Lock was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in East Molesey, Surrey.
Powell managed Margate from March 1990 to October 1990, having previously been assistant to manager Trevor Ford. In 1992, he became the head groundsman at Charlton's stadium, The Valley, a post he held until June 2014.
Myles Landick (born 1989) is a rugby union player from Jersey. He plays as a prop for RFU Championship team, Jersey, and is also employed as the groundsman of St. Peter, the ground on which Jersey plays.
He later became head groundsman at the Sussex County Ground at Hove. In the late 1950s Creese was the landlord of the Dripping Well public house in Hastings. Creese died at Buckland, Kent on 9 March 1974.
In 1921 he played two games for Wairarapa in the Hawke Cup. From 1923 to 1948 he was the groundsman at Lancaster Park, the Test ground in Christchurch. He died in Christchurch at the age of 77.
Richards relocated to the United Kingdom, where Creed arranged for him to play league cricket for Lansdown C.C. in Bath. He made his Lansdown debut, as part of the second XI, at Weston-super-Mare on 26 April 1973. Richards was also employed by the club as assistant groundsman to head groundsman, John Heyward, to allow him some financial independence until his career was established. After his debut he was promoted to the first team where he was introduced to the Lansdown all- rounder "Shandy" Perera from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
Those who know Goldenacre will be aware that the square was moved some years ago, with the famous slope being removed to leave a level outfield. The square has taken some time to "bed in"; however head groundsman Simon Theurer assisted by consultant Steve Wright, the former chief groundsman at Leicestershire County Cricket Club, toiled mightily in 2007 and the deck is becoming harder and faster. The club in conjunction with the school is looking to update many aspects of the ground and construct a new all weather net and practice facility.
Tockwith has one of the finest 'grass roots' level football pitches in the country; it has appeared in several magazines and local groundsman Joe Wilson was awarded "Highly Commended" in the FA Groundsman of the Year Awards for Steps 7 and below for the 2006 season, awarded 1st place in 2007 and 2nd place in 2008. There is also a second football pitch, which the junior teams use. There is a large training area and a pavilion. Tockwith AFC fields a 1st and 2nd team every Saturday who play in the York Minster League.
Tyrone Anthony Merrick (born 10 June 1963) is an Antiguan former professional cricketer. Merrick was a fast bowler and became a groundsman after his retirement from playing cricket. Merrick was born at St. John's in Antigua.Tony Merrick, CricInfo.
McGowan retired in 1963 due to ongoing problems from an ankle injury at the age of 33, after a brief spell at Bethesda Athletic. After retirement, McGowan served as the Wrexham groundsman for between seven and eight years.
Puckett was born in Beddington Corner on 21 February 1911, at the time part of the Croydon Rural District in Surrey.Charlie Puckett – CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 November 2012. His father had occasionally served as a groundsman at The Oval.
He returned to England in the 1930s, working as a gardener or groundsman. He divorced his English wife in 1938 and married a Frenchwoman in 1939, with whom he also had a daughter. He died in Ruislip in 1958.
Wellington also have an Under 19 squad which is captained by Luke Goring. Matthew Stinson is the club captain with Steven Oliver being the club chairman. Peter Byram was groundsman who since his death has been replaced by Steven Gough.
Romero is a lifelong Sevilla FC supporter whose dream is to play for Sevilla, and also worked as a groundsman for the club's stadium while playing for Azuaga. His father Pedrito was also a footballer, playing for both Azuaga and Llerenense.
After he left Mirfield, he became coach to the North Riding Educational Authorities, later working as coach and groundsman at a school in Harrogate. He died, aged 67, in a hospital in Bradford after a short illness, on 10 September 1968.
In List A matches he scored 139 runs, with a top score of 47; however, he had less impact as a bowler in the one-day game, taking just three wickets. Following his retirement from first-class cricket, Phillips became a groundsman.
Recruited from Merbein as a ruckman,Melbourne Keep 13 Recruits, The Argus, (Monday, 17 April 1939), p.16.Football: League Grants Permits (H. Ball, Merbein to Melbourne), The Argus, (Thursday, 20 April 1939), p.19. he worked at the MCG as a groundsman.
George Davenport (5 May 1860 - 4 October 1902) was an English first-class cricketer made 27 appearances in first-class cricket. He was mostly for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), who whom he was employed as a groundsman at their Lord's home.
In 2011, the collector restricted non-sport events to 25 days a year only on weekdays. Sachin Tendulkar gave his first television interview to Tom Alter at the Hindu Gymkhana grounds. Indian Batsman Eknath Solkar was the son of a groundsman at Hindu Gymkana.
During World War II he served in Africa with the British Army, and returned to Romford after the war to become their groundsman. In 1967, Arsenal and Romford played a testimonial match for him on his retirement. He died in January 1993, aged 91.
Ernest Robert Suter (10 June 1870 – 1945) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Halifax Town and Notts County. Suter had a twenty- year association with Halifax Town where he had roles as player, trainer, coach, groundsman and general handyman.
But wait! Surely Tom Brooks does not have a beard. Robin Bailhache, > slight in build though he is, is slightly more substantial than the youthful > beanpole figure making his way to the centre. It took Bill Watkins, the > groundsman at the M.C.G. to detect the impersonation.
Celia sits down and lights her cigarette. Five seconds later the doorbell rings and Celia calls to Sylvie to answer it. It is Lionel Hepplewick, caretaker and groundsman of the local school where Toby is headmaster. Lionel has come to do some personal gardening for Celia.
Hearne was born on 22 July 1863 in Ealing in what was then Middlesex. His father, George Hearne, had played for Middlesex and became the groundsman at Kent's Private Banks Sports Ground in Catford.Hearne, Alec, Obituaries in 1952, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1953. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
Retrieved 13 May 2019. He later went on to be one of the most successful batsmen to play in the Minor Counties Championship, playing for Norfolk County Cricket Club between 1956 and 1962. In later life he was a successful groundsman and cricket coach in Bishop's Stortford.
Hopkins next and final first-class match came in 1911, when Hampshire played Lancashire. Hopkins was renowned as one of the best groundsmen in the country and worked as a groundsman at the County Ground, Southampton.Hopkins Wisden Obituary Hopkins died at Southampton, Hampshire on 15 January 1930.
But wait! Surely Tom Brooks does not have a beard. Robin Bailhache, > slight in build though he is, is slightly more substantial than the youthful > beanpole figure making his way to the centre. It took Bill Watkins, the > groundsman at the M.C.G. to detect the impersonation.
Arthur Paish (5 April 1874 - 16 August 1948) was an English cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire for five seasons, as well as playing professionally for smaller clubs. Paish worked as groundsman and coach for Wagon Works for thirty years until his retirement in 1948.
Cheltenham: SportsBooks Limited. When the ground was established former Middlesex cricketer George Hearne was appointed as groundsman. Three of his sons went on to play for Kent and England, with one, George Gibbons Hearne, making his home debut for the county during the 1875 season at the ground.
Raymond Munds as umpire in Minor Counties Championship matches, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-04-08. He died at Folkestone on 29 July 1962 aged 79. Munds' father was groundsman at Hythe Cricket Club for 47 years and his brother, Arthur, played one first-class match for Kent in 1896.
London: Christopher Helm. He was subsequently groundsman at the Bat and Ball Ground, Gravesend and later ran a sports outfitters in the town. His father played first-class cricket for Kent, as did his brother, George. His son, also called George, played first-class cricket for Kent as well.
Joseph Taylor (1874 – 21 August 1938) was an English professional association footballer who played as a centre half. He played for 323 games and scored 12 goals in the Football League for Burnley during the 1890s and 1900s. After his retirement from football, he became a groundsman at Burnley.
Smoker then moved to Cheshire and continued to turn out for Cheshire County Cricket Club in Minor Counties cricket from 1909 to 1925.Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Henry Smoker . Hcs.cricketarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2011. From 1930 to 1960, he was groundsman and cricket coach at Birkenhead School.
Hearne was born on 7 July 1856 in Ealing in what was then Middlesex. His father, George Hearne, had played for Middlesex and became the groundsman at Kent's Private Banks Sports Ground in Catford in 1872.Hearne, Alec, Obituaries in 1952, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1953. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
Munds' father, Edward, was groundsman at Hythe Cricket Club for 47 years and his brother, Raymond, made seven appearances for the Kent team in the early 20th century.Munds, Edward - Obituaries in 1929, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1930. Retrieved 2017-03-05.First-class matches played by Raymond Munds, CricketArchive.
Shackleton married his wife, Kathy, in 1951. She also hailed from his home town, Todmorden. They had a son, Julian Shackleton, who played cricket for Gloucestershire, and a daughter. After retiring from first-class cricket, Shackleton lived at Ferndown and was coach and groundsman at Canford School in Dorset.
A year earlier, he had played for the representative London XI side in the same competition. He made 223 appearances for Chelsea, and scored nine goals. Upon leaving the club in 1959, Saunders became the Head Groundsman at Vincent Square, the central London playing fields for Westminster School.
Frederick Charles Bartholomew (3 January 1885 – 1979) was an English professional football Utility player who played in the Football League for Reading. He served the club as a player, coach and groundsman for 53 years. As a utility player, his primary positions were centre half or full back.
The organization was instrumental in exposing pitch-fixing and -tampering controversies in Sri Lanka and India by covering pitch-fixing, primarily at Sri Lanka's Galle International Stadium. The Al Jazeera documentary Cricket's Match-Fixers revealed secret plans to fix the first match, scheduled at Galle during the November 2018 test series between England and Sri Lanka. According to Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit, the groundsman at Galle helped bookmakers fix test matches at the stadium by changing the condition of the pitch. Al Jazeera reported that the last two test matches (Sri Lanka v Australia in 2016 and India v Sri Lanka in 2017) played at Galle were fixed by bookmakers who were seen bribing the groundsman at Galle.
Pfeilstöcker was born in Bruck an der Mur and played with SV Oberaich, Kapfenberger SV, DSV Leoben, SVA Kindberg, SV Grödig, FC Bischofswiesen and FC Munderfing. He retired from playing professional football in 2011 to become groundsman at SV Grödig whilst also playing for the club's amateur team. In December 2013 due to a defensive crisis caused by the sackings of Dominique Taboga and Thomas Zündel for a betting scandal, Pfeilstöcker was included on the bench against SV Ried on 7 December 2013. He came on in the final few moments as Grödig won the match 3–0 which led to the local newspaper to proclaim that Grödig can win even with their groundsman.
Both Webb and John Reid benefited from these early years of input from Graham Vivian and Mark Burgess. Webb was in 2 successful First Class Championships and in 2 One Day Shell Series wins, Captaining one of the One Day Shell Series. In 1986 Webb attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire as part of a Scholarship to study Sports Turf Maintenance and was under the supervision of Peter Mansfield NDT (UK), Webb attained the Institute of Groundsman NTC and NPC (UK) in 1986, Webb was the first overseas candidate to sit and pass these qualifications. Webb went on to be Head Groundsman at Reading Blue Coat School and at Reeds School in Surrey.
He scored a duck in the first innings and just one run in the second innings of a match which Somerset lost by a margin of an innings and 192 runs. Bezer bowled two overs during the match, conceding twelve runs. He worked as the groundsman at Bath Cricket Club.
William Bower (18 September 1887 – February 1954) was a footballer He started his career with Peel Institute where he played football and cricket, he later played in the Football League for Clapton Orient and later with New Brompton, in 1921 he became their trainer / manager and in 1947 their groundsman.
The new Brumbrella was abandoned later that year and returned to its manufacturers, Tildenet, who refunded its cost to Warwickshire.Cricket: Warwicks delay move on cover at Edgbaston, Birmingham Post, 9 January 2002. Edgbaston groundsman Steve Rouse subsequently explained that it became too heavy to use once it was covered with water.
The novel is about a man who spends his life at the pub, seeing the world through his beer glass – a glass canoe. The novel is told through the voice of Meat Man, a regular drinker at the Southern Cross hotel, who works as a groundsman at the local golf course.
Hearne was born on 23 November 1858 in Ealing in what was then Middlesex. His father, George Hearne, had played for Middlesex and became the groundsman at Kent's Private Banks Sports Ground in Catford where Frank worked as a young man.Hearne, Alec, Obituaries in 1952, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1953. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
He is shot and killed by Turkish authorities during a botched deal with Adam Carrington. ;Tony Driscoll (Paul Keenan, 1982–1984) :The Carrington groundsman. ;Gerald Wilson (John Larch, 1982–1988) :Attorney to Cecil Colby. ;Dr. Jonas Edwards (Robert Symonds, 1982–1987) :Father figure to Adam when he was growing up as Michael Torrance.
Belacqua is kidnapped for this purpose, but the child turns out to be a girl. Belacqua ends up sitting on his own tombstone. The unnamed groundsman in "Draff" who tended to Belacqua's grave is back, now named Mick Doyle and intending to rob the grave. Belacqua bets Doyle he'll find nothing there.
Bartholomew served as a colour sergeant with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War. After retiring from football in 1923, he spent three years on the coaching staff at Reading and then became groundsman at Elm Park until his retirement in 1957.
These boxes were added to the rear of the Cyril Knowles stand. West Hartlepool R.F.C. moved out in 1999. In 1996, the ground was renamed Victoria Park to reflect the large number of improvements that had been made to the infrastructure and facilities. Among the improvements were two new stands (the Cyril Knowles Stand and the Town End), new dressing rooms and offices in the old Clock Garages building to the northeast of the ground and major work on the condition of the pitch. Since 2003, groundsman Dave Brown has received an annual nomination for Groundsman of the Year awards due to the excellent state of the pitch. In 2006, Hartlepool made a bid to buy the lease of the land that the ground is on.
There is capacity for 4,500 inside the ground with 450 of these seated and 650 covered. There is also an officials' bar and a supporters' bar as well as a tea hut and club shop. The pitch is tended to by head groundsman Lewis Clements & George Gould whose company is in charge of the maintenance.
He also played 81 innings in 84 one- day matches. He was a right-arm offbreak bowler and took one first-class wicket at the cost of 71 runs and one in one day cricket.John Harvey at Cricket Archive Harvey became coach and groundsman at Bradfield College, and started playing for Berkshire in 1978.
Olivia was raised in Harrogate. Her parents, who were originally from Liverpool, run a project management and engineering business in Harrogate. Her grandfather was the groundsman at Goodison Park. She was educated at Birklands Belmont School (now Belmont Grosvenor) in Birstwith near Harrogate, followed by the co-educational Bootham School, an independent school in York.
The First World War saw a huge decline in membership, but the club struggled through to the summer of 1918. Unaware that the armistice was just a few months away, the club decided that the course had to close, even temporarily. The club reopened in 1919 with 90 members and a new groundsman / professional.
A groundsman at a local cricket club, John Over, was tasked with demolishing the greenhouses and preparing a playing surface for football. The stands from the previous ground at Northumberland Park were moved to the new ground. The new ground was never officially named, although names such as Gilpin Park and Percy Park were suggested.
St Joseph's College Blackpool He then spent twenty years coaching and as groundsman at Berkhamsted School. Pope umpired one first-class match in 1951. He reappeared at Derbyshire in 1954 playing a couple of games for the club and ground. By 1957 he was coaching at Chesham Cricket Club where he coached Mike Taylor.
In 1835, he moved to Town Malling in Kent and received a salary of 100 pounds a year. There he kept a tavern attached to the cricket ground. Pilch moved to Canterbury in 1842 where he kept the Saracen's Head. He served as the first groundsman of the St. Lawrence Ground from 1847 to 1868.
Teachers were Ms's Greavy, Kohler, Eton and Messrs Bonanno and Ralph. Mr Hager was the groundsman and lived with his family on the property. Before the creation of Blind Brook High School in 1973, the elementary school housed the entire Blind Brook School District. As time progressed, the building held grades K to 6th.
He took five wickets in an innings on four occasions, with best figures of 7 for 38 for Sheffield against Manchester in 1852. In addition to playing, Wright also stood as umpire in sixteen first-class matches between 1860-72. He was the groundsman at Bramall Lane from 1866 until his death in November 1893.
At both these schools Webb also Coached Cricket. In New Zealand Webb worked at Eden Park Auckland as a Groundstaff member, and later at Melville Park in Auckland where he was Head Groundsman. It was at Melville Park that Webb received a merit commendation for his skill and Training schedules he was instrumental with.
1979 Derbyshire Yearbook Following his release from Derbyshire, he played for Undercliffe Cricket Club in the Bradford Cricket League and then emigrated to South Africa. He was working as assistant groundsman at the Wanderers Stadium in Johnannesburg, and only a month before his death had helped to prepare the pitch for the Test against Australia.
After the 1909–10 Australian season Saunders moved to New Zealand, where worked as coach and groundsman to the Wellington Cricket Association.The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 461. He played first-class cricket for Wellington for four seasons, and represented New Zealand in one match against the touring Australian team in 1913–14.
Mercer was the older brother of fellow footballer Arthur Mercer and the pair briefly played together at Sheffield United. Mercer's other brother Richard was an amateur footballer and his son David also became a professional footballer. In 1911, Mercer was working in a coal mine and in 1939 was he working as a golf club groundsman.
Neil Michael Knight Smith (born 27 July 1967) is a former English cricketer who played in 7 ODIs from 1986 to 1996. He then went on to work at Warwick School for boys, Myton Road, Warwick as the Groundsman but has recently semi retired. He is the son of the former England test captain, M J K Smith.
In 1947, soon after his last appearance for Argyle, Carless accepted an offer to become the club's head groundsman, having gained experience doing the job for Cardiff City before moving to Plymouth.Brief profile of Ernie Carless The role enabled him to continue his cricket career with Devon. Carless died at Barry, Glamorgan on 26 September 1987.
He was head groundsman at the stadium when the second Test between West Indies and England was abandoned after 10 balls in February 2009 due to the outfield being unsuitable for play – although, in what The Scotsman called a "curious state of affairs",Antigua offers grounds for hope, The Scotsman, 14 February 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
Richard Coulstock (1823 - 15 December 1870) was an Australian cricketer. He played two first-class cricket matches for Victoria and one match for Otago. In 1863 he was employed as a groundsman by the Dunedin Cricket Club. He played for Otago in several matches in 1863-64, including New Zealand's first first- class match, against Canterbury.
When he retired as a player Simms became the club's trainer, and when the new St Andrew's ground opened in 1906, he was appointed head groundsman, a post he held until January 1914, at which point he retired from football after 30 years' service to the club. Simms died in Birmingham in 1935 at the age of 76.
After leaving the Manor Ground Crawford moved on to Millwall in 1898. He later had a stint with Queens Park Rangers where together with Adam Haywood, Alex McConnell and William White he formed a quartet of ex Gunners. After retiring from football, he became head groundsman at Charlton Athletic, a role that he held until 1947.
As the gymkhana land belongs to the collector, one of its lease conditions is that the grounds should be accessible by the general public and non-sporting activities. Sachin Tendulkar gave his first television interview to Tom Alter at the Hindu Gymkhana grounds. Indian Batsman Eknath Solkar was the son of a groundsman at Hindu Gymkana.
Smith (1980), pg 463. He was born and died in Swansea. Bancroft's brother, Billy, was a Welsh rugby international and the first paid professional for the Glamorgan cricketing side. His father William was groundsman at St. Helen's rugby and cricket ground, and Jack showed great interest and skill in both cricket and rugby from an early age.
Bancroft had very close ties to St. Helen's Rugby and Cricket Ground, having lived there as a child where his father, and his father before him, were groundsman. He played club rugby at the ground with Swansea and cricket there with Glamorgan. In his later years he too would become St Helen's groundsman.The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales.
Retrieved 2018-04-01. In his spare time Gary works as a carpenter for his family business. More recently he has founded GDF Bats and makes and sells cricket bats and other equipment to the buyers specifications. Gary for many years has been a groundsman at Wisbech Cricket Club, where he resided on the grounds in the ‘chod shack’.
The granite Celtic Cross of St Patrick's, which originally formed the spire of St Patrick's Boys School in Irwin St Perth, was presented to Trinity College in 1996. The Celtic Cross was placed as the centrepiece of the entry roundabout at Trinity College. Groundsman Ross Beatson complemented the Cross and the roundabout with a Celtic hedge.
Kay was 28 years old when released from prison. He never returned to the professional game, but did play some amateur football. He spent twelve years in Spain avoiding arrest for selling a counterfeit diamond. On his return to the UK Kay was fined £400 and in later years he worked as a groundsman in south east London.
In 1979, he returned to Burnley F.C. as reserve team coach before being appointed assistant manager under Brian Miller in 1986. He then became youth coach under Frank Casper and later head groundsman at Turf Moor, before retiring in April 2007. Upon his retirement, he was presented a lifetime achievement award by Burnley manager Steve Cotterill.
Charles Redfearn Freeman (22 August 1887 – 17 March 1956) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Chelsea, Gillingham and Burton United as an inside forward. After his retirement, he served Chelsea as trainer and groundsman. Freeman was also a cricketer and played one first-class cricket match for Derbyshire in July 1911.
He returned to the club after the war, played his last competitive first-team match in December 1919, at the age of 38 years and 271 days,Carder & Harris, Seagulls!, p. 320. and continued to appear occasionally for the reserves until as late as 1927. He performed various roles for the club, as assistant trainer, scout and groundsman.
Adams was the son of a stonemason and a schoolmistress, and the family relocated from Somerset to Wandsworth in London, where he played club cricket with Roehampton Cricket Club and the Club Cricket Conference, though he remained a supporter of Somerset. By career, he was a travelling salesman, though he also acted temporarily as a groundsman at Cheltenham after war service.
Two meetings were held at Wembley in 1974 promoted by Trevor Redmond. The first meeting held featured BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Cars and National Hot Rods. The second meeting featured the BriSCA Formula 2 Stock Cars World Final with F1's in support. Before the first meeting the Wembley groundsman threatened to resign over possible damage to the hallowed turf.
Enos Silvester Knibbs (29 July 1886 – 2 November 1953) was a West Indian cricket umpire from Jamaica. He stood in two Test matches, in 1930 and 1935. Knibbs was born in Kingston and began his involvement in cricket as a groundsman at the Melbourne Park ground. He apparently devoted himself to cricket – playing, coaching, repairing bats, umpiring and preparing pitches.
Petherbridge married Rita Walker in 1950, and the couple had three children and eleven grandchildren. Following his retirement from football he worked as a publican, running The Angel in Sherston, and later The Tamar in Cornwall. He also worked as a PE teacher and groundsman at Millfield School and Wells Cathedral School respectively. Petherbridge Way in Bristol is named after Petherbridge.
The Club groundsman was also usually a competent player, who would play for the team as the "professional". This tradition continued until the 1970s, with names including David "Pa" Nicoll, Arthur Creber and George Waites. By 1914, when play was stopped by the outbreak of war across Europe, the fixture list included most of Scotland's leading clubs outside the already existent Western Union.
The 1732 English cricket season was the 36th cricket season since the earliest recorded eleven-aside match was played. Details have survived of 12 matches. Most of the matches for which records survive feature London Cricket Club. Their main ground, the Artillery Ground in Finsbury, was used for four matches and its groundsman, Mr Jones, was mentioned in one newspaper report.
The remaining players for New Zealand's ODI and T20I squads were named on 14 October 2017. Ahead of the second ODI, footage emerged of groundsman Pandurang Salgaonkar allegedly agreeing to tamper with the wicket. He was later suspended by the Maharashtra Cricket Association, with the match going ahead as scheduled. India won the ODI series 2–1 and the T20I series 2–1.
Basil Leonard Rogers (20 June 1896 – 9 October 1975) was an English cricketer. Rogers was a right-handed batsman. Born in Bedford, Bedfordshire, he was the son of Richard Rogers and Julia Marsh. His father was head groundsman at Bedford Modern School, there is also an indication that he played for Bedfordshire or Oxfordshire, before either had a county cricket club.
He was a right-handed batsman, and played 170 first-class matches with an average of 12.31 and a top score of 73. He was an occasional wicket- keeper.Philip Russell at Cricket Archive He went on to have a distinguished career as Head Groundsman at Kingsmead Stadium, Durban, South Africa. Russell's son, Miles, played cricket for the Derbyshire Second XI in 1991.
He was part of the side which made Scotland's first appearance in the FIFA World Cup finals, in Switzerland in 1954. Davidson left Partick in 1960, joining Highland League side Inverness Caledonian for three seasons. Upon his playing retirement he rejoined Partick as groundsman. His brother Andy was also a professional footballer, who holds the most appearances record for Hull City.
Davenport was born in Nantwich. He was employed as a groundsman at Lord's for many years. His debut in first-class cricket came for the North of England in the North v South fixture of 1884 at Lord's. He made four first-class appearances for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1885, as well as appearing again in the North v South fixture.
Hearn was born in Tunbridge Wells and educated at The Skinners' School in the town. His grandfather was the groundsman at the Nevill Ground and Hearn grew up at his cottage on the ground's boundary. His father played for Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club and his uncle, Sidney played for Kent in the 1920s.Hearn, Peter, Obituaries in 2013, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 2014.
Carlaw D (2005) 300 years of cricket at West Malling, Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2005, pp.66–69. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club. . Selby and Norton, backed financially by William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris, recruited Fuller Pilch to be the groundsman in 1835. Pilch, who was considered the greatest batsman in the country at the time, was from Norfolk and played cricket as a professional.
He remained in the Army until 17 February 1947. After discharge, Gordon briefly worked for the state electricity commission, before rejoining the army as a regular soldier on 2 December 1947, achieving the rank of Warrant Officer Class II in 1950. He continued service until 1 August 1968 when he retired; after this, he was employed at Campbell Barracks, Swanbourne, as a groundsman until 1975.
Winter 1997, page 26.The Mercia Manifesto: A blueprint for the future inspired by the past, , page ii. He was also the editor of Port Vale Grass Roots: From Supporter To Groundsman And Back Again, which was written by Denis Dawson and published the same year. The book was believed to have been the first-ever autobiography by a football club groundsman.Congleton Chronicle, 19. 12.
Solkar's father was the head groundsman at Hindu Gymkhana, Mumbai. Solkar used to change the scoreboards for the matches played at that ground. Anant Solkar, Eknath's younger brother, also played cricket at first class level, representing Maharashtra in Ranji Trophy matches. During his days as a school cricketer, he toured Sri Lanka in 1964 and captained the Indian schools team against London Schools in 1965–66.
Anurudda "Anura" Polonowita (born 23 July 1938) is a former cricketer who played for Ceylon from 1960 to 1969. He later became a prominent cricket administrator and groundsman. In September 2018, he was one of 49 former Sri Lankan cricketers felicitated by Sri Lanka Cricket, to honour them for their services before Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Cecil Frederick Douglas Buttle, known as "Cec", born at Norton Fitzwarren, Taunton, Somerset on 11 January 1906 and died at Taunton on 15 December 1988, was associated with Somerset County Cricket Club for more than 50 years as a player, a net bowler, a substitute fielder, a reserve umpire and, for about 30 years after the Second World War, the groundsman at the County Ground, Taunton.
Pothecary was appointed to the first-class Umpires list in 1949, where from 1949 to 1958 he stood in 254 first-class matches, with his final match standing as an Umpire between an England XI and a Commonwealth XI. Pothecary later became a groundsman, taking charge of the Royal Air Force Sports Ground in Uxbridge. Pothecary died at Iver, Buckinghamshire on 21 May 1991.
Batting into the final day allowed Yardley to ask the groundsman to use a heavy roller, which would help to break up the wicket and make it more likely to spin. Bradman elected to not have the pitch rolled at all, demonstrating his belief that such a device would only make batting more difficult.Fingleton, p. 173. Yardley's declaration left Australia to chase 404 runs for victory.
The then-new 1950s pavilion cost £140-8-8 to construct. In 1972 it was burned to the ground set alight by the sparks from a nearby garden waste fire. All the Club's records (photographs, scorebooks and committee meeting minutes) were lost. John was often seen rolling the square at 5 A.M. to catch the dew, an endearing eccentricity recently adopted by a later groundsman.
He spent one and a half seasons with Hereford before leaving for his hometown team of Merthyr Tydfil, also working as a groundsman at the club. After spending over five years at Merthyr, Abraham spent a short time in the Welsh Premier League with Rhayader Town alongside former Cardiff teammate Cohen Griffith until the pair left the club by mutual consent in January 2002.
Brother Edward Mamo worked and lived at Monivae in the 1970s and 1980s as a groundsman, bus driver, and hockey coach. He also worked in the laundry room. In 2012, Mamo was charged with indecent assault of seven boys aged 11 to 14 at Monivae College between 1976 and 1980. The majority of the assaults occurred in the basement laundry where Mamo had a work room.
St. George's CC employed Sheffield native Samuel Wright as its professional cricket playing groundsman. Wright's two sons, Harry and George, played for the United States XXII against the All England XI in 1859 in New York and Philadelphia. Both Wright brothers became renowned in baseball circles after they played for the Cincinnati Red Stockings, America's first professional baseball team. English cricket teams toured American regularly.
He played only six matches when cricket resumed after the First World War and his final appearance came in June 1922 against Essex at Leyton. Hunt remained as the groundsman at New Road, serving almost 50 years in the role. His pitches were much respected and he had the reputation of being an excellent groundskeeper. He stood as an umpire in one first-class game at Worcester in 1919.
Clay made further league appearances in the Second Division, 25 appearances in 1911-12 and 12 appearances the following season. He played his final match on 16 Nov 1912 for Bristol City v Blackpool in a 0–0 draw before retiring in 1913. He served in the Army in the First World War and was then groundsman at BAC, Filton and Canford Park, Westbury on Trym in Bristol.
Jennings was the son of David Jennings, who played for Devon in the Minor Counties Championship. David Jennings was later the professional coach and head groundsman at Marlborough College. He played first-class cricket for the Royal Air Force cricket team in 1929, playing against the Royal Navy at Chatham. He made a second first-class appearance against the British Army cricket team in 1931 at The Oval.
Following his retirement from playing, Parry became a referee in the Birmingham and District League. After he was forced to quit through ill-health, he worked for Oswestry United as a groundsman/caretaker. By 1921, he had fallen on hard times and, after an appeal by the mayor and vicar of Oswestry, Everton granted a donation to him of £10.10.0 and arranged a friendly at Oswestry to raise funds for him.
The following year he kicked a career best 35 goals and was both Collingwood's and the VFL's leading goal kicker, the latter earning him the Leading Goalkicker Medal. To cap off the season Lockwood played in another premiership side. In 1917, Lockwood officiated in a VFL game as a goal umpire. After his football career, Lockwood served as groundsman at the South Melbourne Cricket Ground until his death in 1953.
In 2009, 2010 and 2011 he refereed matches in the Maharashtra Premier League, a local Twenty20 competition.Pandurang Salgaoncar as referee On 25 October 2017, he was sacked as chief pitch curator at Pune for allegedly allowing people to tamper with the pitch before a major match. A couple of days later Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) said it has only suspended him as head groundsman of the Pune pitch.
Later in the day, captain Yardley was caught by a leaping Harvey while attempting a lofted shot from Johnston.Fingleton, p. 172. After five minutes on the final morning, Yardley declared at 8/365. Batting into the final day allowed Yardley to ask the groundsman to use a heavy roller, which would help to break up the wicket, thereby causing more uneven bounce and making the surface more likely to spin.
Jonathan Mumford (1842 - 14 December 1892) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played four first-class matches for Auckland between 1873 and 1878. Mumford captained the Auckland United senior club team for about 20 years. He was the manager and groundsman of the cricket grounds in the Auckland Domain for many years, having been among the group of men who were instrumental in the formation of the grounds.
Evra (left) passing the ball to Gabriel Obertan in a match against Everton in the 2009–10 season Prior to the start of the 2008–09 season, on 18 July 2008, Evra was charged with four separate counts of improper conduct by the FA. The charges were related to an incident that occurred during the 2007–08 season when Evra had an altercation with a Chelsea groundsman during a warm-down following a match on 26 April. The defender denied the charges and was supported by several members of the club's staff, who commented that the player was racially abused by the groundsman prior to the confrontation. Evra remained free to play for United up to the date of the hearing despite the charges being made in July 2008. He began the campaign in similar fashion to last season as Manchester United won the Community Shield following the team's 3–0 victory over Portsmouth on penalties.
After the 1908 season he emigrated to Ireland, where he worked as a groundsman at the Woodbrook Cricket Club Ground in Bray. He played in four fixtures on the ground which are rated as first-class, one in 1909 and three in 1912. One of the 1912 games was for Ireland against the touring South Africans. He had also appeared in two games for London County, one in 1900 and one in 1903.
Retrieved 23 June 2010. He made his first team debut in 1951 and was a regular in the side for the next decade, initially as a centre back and then as a full back; his favoured position. Towards the end of his career he joined Falmouth Town as player-manager. He then returned to Plymouth to become a groundsman at Plymouth College, and then as a member of the staff at Home Park.
For a time he wore the skippers armband. In all competitions he made 196 appearances for Doncaster, scoring 4 times. Following his last game for Doncaster on 16 September 1929 at Halifax, he moved to Waterford Celtic, a side in turmoil at the time and who wound up at the end of that season. Some time later, McClean was appointed trainer and groundsman at Doncaster from the beginning of the 1943−44 season.
John Thomas Hakin (17 October 1882 – 1950) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Grimsby Town between 1906 and 1908. An inside left, he joined Grimsby from Midland League club Mexborough Town. On leaving the club he spent the 1908–09 season playing in the Southern League and the Western League for Plymouth Argyle, and later played for Portsmouth and Rotherham County. He later worked as a groundsman in Grimsby.
He made 85 known first-class appearances until 1800 and then played occasionally, making nine more appearances from 1802 to 1816. He played for the Players in the inaugural Gentlemen v Players match in 1806.CricketArchive – scorecard of inaugural Gentlemen v Players match He kept the Portman Arms inn at Marylebone for a time, and in old age was employed as a gardener and groundsman. Like William Beldham, he provided James Pycroft with his reminiscences.
Leyland was born on 20 July 1900 in Bilton, an area of Harrogate, to Mercy (née Lambert) and Edward (Ted) Leyland. He was registered at birth as Morris Leyland but his name was usually spelt "Maurice". His father was a stonemason and a well-respected professional cricketer for Moorside in Lancashire. Leyland senior also acted as Moorside's groundsman, and in later years continued that role at Harrogate, Headingley Cricket Ground and Edgbaston.
Retrieved 2018-03-24. In the 18th century the house was known as St Lawrence. The ground was laid out by Fuller Pilch, a professional cricketer who had been the groundsman at Town Malling and, from 1842, the Beverley Ground in north-east Canterbury. Kent County Cricket Club had been formed at the Beverley Ground in 1842 and the St Lawrence Ground was established to be used for their Canterbury Cricket Week in 1847.
Batting into the final day allowed Yardley the right to ask the groundsman to use a heavy roller, which would help to break up the wicket, make it more likely to spin and therefore more difficult for Australia to bat on. This left Australia a target of 404 runs for victory. At the time, this would have been the highest ever run-chase to result in a Test victory for the batting side.
In 2004, £700,000 was invested in improving the pitch. The former all-grass surface was replaced with a sand-based Desso GrassMaster one, the mix of artificial and real grass which, according to the then groundsman Gary Kemp "guarantee[d] that the pitch would be looking good enough for every match to be broadcast on TV". The under-soil heating system "can clear snow and ice within eight hours of being turned on".
During the football season, Len and his family lived in the town he played for, but during the summer they often returned to Tottenham. After retiring from professional football, Len became a school caretaker and groundsman, working for Rowland Hill School, Tottenham and lived at the cottage in the grounds. A cigarette smoker throughout his life, Len contracted lung cancer, which became systemic and he died at the Cottage on 19 August 1958.
Windlesham House School, where Hordern made his amateur stage debut Four years after the birth of Peter, a pregnant Margaret returned to England where Michael Hordern, her third son, was born on 3October 1911 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Still stationed abroad, Edward was promoted to the rank of captain for which he received a good salary. The family lived in comfort and Margaret employed a scullery maid, nanny, groundsman, and full-time cook.Hordern, p. 4.
When TSR ran into financial difficulties in 1997, it was taken over by Wizards of the Coast (WotC). TSR staff were given the choice of staying with WotC and moving from Lake Geneva to WotC's headquarters in Renton, Washington, or resigning. LaForce left the company and stayed in Lake Geneva. After unsuccessfully trying to make a living as a freelance artist, he turned to manual labour, becoming a groundsman for a drilling crew.
Mr. R. Doble said Mr. Rhodes deserved to be honoured with life membership for his many years service. This was endorsed by several members. Rhodes started out as a groundsman at Carlaw Park in 1921 before becoming the ground superintendent. At the league AGM it was reported that revenue for the year totalled £2,573, of which £1,791 came from gate receipts, £416 from ground rents, £68 from advertising and £45 from subscriptions.
Wellard was born in Hammersmith, London. He came through the ranks of the Ashford Town (Middlesex) and made his debut for the Tangerines against Stourport Swifts on 8 January 2005, as a late sub for Anthony Eggington. He went on to make 190 first team appearances for Ashford Town including scoring the winning goal in the 2009 Surrey Senior Cup final. During his time at the club Wellard was also groundsman at Short Lane.
The Braemar Road stand from pitchside in January 2019. At 11:30 PM on 1 February 1983, a fire broke out in the Braemar Road Stand, possibly due to an electrical fault in the boiler room under the stand. The fire quickly spread through the timber used in the construction of the stand. Groundsman Alec Banks, who lived under the stand, was rescued by then- Brentford player Stan Bowles and his wife Jane.
Fort retired as a player in 1930 having made 332 appearances for Millwall. He continued to be associated with Millwall for the rest of his life in a variety of roles, including coach, trainer, assistant groundsman and scout. and was still working for the club until a few weeks before his death on 23 November 1965, aged 77. Jack Fort also gained three England caps playing in trial internationals against the home countries.
Sumner (1997), p 78 Morris scored an identical tally the following season, amid rumours he would be leaving for a bigger club. Morris ended his league career at Halifax Town, before spending time in non-league football with Caernarfon Town, Bethesda Athletic, Llandudno Borough and Colwyn Bay. He managed both Caernarfon and Colwyn BayOwens (2006), p 26 before becoming club groundsman with the Bay,.Owens (2006), p 23 Morris died on 4 November 2013.
He coached at Taunton School and then moved to Rhodesia to become coach for the Rhodesian Cricket Association.The Cricketer, November 1977, p. 52. A school reminiscences website from Zimbabwe records that Wigginton was "caretaker and groundsman" at the Gifford High School, Bulawayo, between 1953 and 1969, with his wife acting as "cook-matron". He also helped with cricket coaching: a star cricket pupil in this period was Brian Davison, who captained Leicestershire in the 1970s.
Reynolds struck up a friendship with Eddie Mabo, who was then a groundsman and gardener at James Cook University. In his book Why Weren't We Told?, Reynolds describes the talks they had regarding Mabo's people's rights to their lands, on Murray Island, in the Torres Strait. Reynolds writes: > Eddie [...] would often talk about his village and about his own land, which > he assured us would always be there when he returned because everyone knew > it belonged to his family.
He made two appearances in first- class cricket, the first of which came for Manchester against Sussex at Eccles in 1858, followed by an appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Middlesex at Lord's in 1861. Below first-class level he played at county level for Herefordshire and played two matches, in 1853 and 1857, for Shropshire while engaged as club professional for Eyton.Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998, pages 24,50. He worked as a groundsman at Balliol College, Oxford.
We meet Philip Hathaway in the prequel show, Endeavour, episode 3 series 3, where a young Philip Hathaway is introduced as a groundsman, at the same Crevecoeur estate. It throws light on his father's passion for fishing, as that would have been a groundsman's way to relax on a huge estate. Season nine introduces Hathaway's family properly. We meet his father Philip who is suffering from dementia and his sister Nell with whom James has a tense relationship.
Robin Morris along with Dubai based business person Gaurav Rajkumar, Galle groundsman Tharanga Indika and Sri Lankan first- class cricketer Tharindu Mendis have also been investigated by the ICC for attempting to another pitch tampering at Galle in Sri Lanka's forthcoming first test match against England as a part of the England's series against Sri Lanka in November 2018. In December 2019, Morris along with four other people, were arrested with regards to an alleged kidnapping.
After his playing career ended his connection with Bradford City continued through a number of roles including groundsman, safety officer and commercial manager. A testimonial match was held for him at Valley Parade in 1998 and he retired in 2007. His Dementia diagnosis in the early 2010s is thought to be connected with a career of heading the football and has led to the setting up of Bradford Memory Walks which take place in aid of the Alzheimer's Society.
Later in life he worked as a groundsman, firstly for the Bristol Co-Operative Society, before taking responsibility for Bristol City's Ashton Gate pitch in 1955. He was later appointed as an assistant coach at his former club, Bristol Rovers, in 1960 when he was aged 65. In Huddersfield's final game at Leeds Road, against Blackpool on 30 April 1994, he was the guest of honour. He was also present for Town's visit to Bristol Rovers' Twerton Park.
Johnston had the pick of the bowling figures, with 4/95. Batting into the final day allowed Yardley to ask the groundsman to use a heavy roller, which would help to break up the wicket and make the surface more likely to spin. This left Australia a target of 404 runs for victory. At the time, this would have been the highest ever fourth innings score to result in a Test victory for the batting side.
Only a small number of people were at the airstrip and saw the crash. The airport groundsman and an airline staff member grabbed portable fire extinguishers, jumped into a car and raced across the airstrip. Others at the airstrip and nearby beaches ran towards the burning aircraft. The aircraft's cabin door had been torn away by a tree stump and lay about behind the aircraft but despite the open doorway no-one inside the passenger cabin attempted to escape.
George Hearne (15 May 1829 – 9 December 1904) was an English cricketer. Hearne was born at Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire. He played for a Middlesex XI (1861–1863) and for Middlesex County Cricket Club (1864–1868) as a batsman.George Hearne, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-10-29. In 1872 he moved to be the groundsman at Kent County Cricket Club's Private Banks Sports Ground at Catford.Hearne, Alec, Obituaries in 1952, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1953. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
That county never repliedArlott, p. 24.—Hobbs later scored his maiden first-class century against them—but Hutt was more successful when he asked Hayward to look at Hobbs with a view to recommending him to Surrey. Consequently, in late 1902, Hobbs batted on Parker's Piece against Hayward and Bill Reeves, an Essex cricketer born in Cambridge, impressing Hayward in the process. In the winter of 1902–03 Hobbs assumed his father's duties as groundsman at Jesus College.
After football, Rankin was caretaker at the Corio Oval for about eight years, until he was replaced by Arthur Rayson c.1924.Success of Geelong Seconds: Players Who Have Made Good: Born Footballer, The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 26 July 1924), p.7. He was employed as the head groundsman at the Geelong College from 1904 to 1941, and as the Principal's gardener from 1941 to 1944. He also coached the College's First XVIII from 1905 to 1921.
He returned to take up the post of professional and groundsman at Worcester ahead of Worcestershire's promotion to first-class county status in 1899. He did not play in 1899, making his Worcestershire first-class debut the following season before going on to play a total of 53 times for the county between then and 1922. He rarely made more than a handful of appearances in any season – only in 1908, when he played 14 matches did he make more than ten appearances.
He started working as a groundsman maintaining the pitch for the Parsis in Pune and later at the British Poona Gymkhana where he occasionally bowled to J.G Grieg, an English batsman. He learned spin bowling.and because of Grieg's influence he began to play for the Pune Hindu club. The club had been reluctant to let him play because of his "untouchable" caste.. In 1896, he moved to Bombay and got selected into Parmanandas Jivandas Hindu Gymkhana and played both Bombay Quadrangular tournaments.
Woodards returned to West Ham to work as a groundsman at Upton Park. He was the only person in the ground when, in August 1944, a Luftwaffe V1 landed on the pitch, exploding and causing damage to the playing area. West Ham were forced to play away from Upton Park, winning nine consecutive matches. After hard work by Woodards the pitch was restored and West Ham returned there to play their home games, losing 1–0 to Tottenham Hotspur on their return.
In 1945 Barrington left school aged 14 and took up work as a motor mechanic in Reading, Fred Titmus saying "he could drive anything from a tank to a scooter".p. 105, Titmus After a year he joined Reading Cricket Club as the assistant groundsman, a job that allowed him unlimited opportunity to practice cricket. It is here that he learned the art of leg-spin. His old boss told him "You will never make a living in cricket".p.
Hopefully these lads will push on and with others coming through a bright future lays ahead. The summer of 2016 has seen a few changes off the field as the club enters a period of transition. Long serving Chairman and jack of all trades John Osborne aka Mr Clanfield stood down along with his wife Monica, who also fulfilled a number of roles and basically between them kept the club going. Also long serving groundsman Geoff Collet retired for a well earned rest.
Home fans also stand in the terraced Stonebridge Road Stand, which runs along the length of the pitch on the side of the stadium closest to the street and which is also covered. Away supporters typically stand in the Swanscombe End, which is an open terrace. The pitch size at Stonebridge Road is 112 by 72 yards for football matches, and the pitch is presently maintained by groundsman Peter Norton. The postcode (for maps and directions) of Stonebridge Road is DA11 9GN.
Bradford had been dismissed in July 2012, after working at Kingdom of Zion as a groundsman since the end of January 2012. In November 2013, Zion Wildlife Kingdom Ltd co-director and shareholder Ian Stevenson, was struck off by the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants. Stevenson was charged with conduct unbecoming of an accountant and negligence and/or incompetence in a professional capacity. He was also charged with breaching the NZICA's rule 21.4(b) and breaching the institute's code of ethics.
The foundation stone was laid by Lord Brabourne on 22 May 1936. The ground was intended to provide covered accommodation for 35,000 spectators and contain pavilions, tennis courts, and a swimming pool. Frank Tarrant was the first groundsman. The first match was played on the incomplete ground in October 1937 between the CCI and the Spencer Cup XI. The ground was opened on 7 December 1937 by Roger Lumley, then Governor of Bombay, Lord Brabourne now being the Governor of Bengal.
An example of this continued contribution to the club was in June 2012, where the society paid for a new piece of important equipment for the groundsman Peter Norton. Even with the £150,000 realised from the Akinde transfer, plus possible add-on fees, Ebbsfleet faced estimated annual losses of approximately £800,000, and their financial situation remained precarious notwithstanding the investment of funds from MyFC. As well as suffering a decline in membership, relations between MyFootballClub and the Club had deteriorated by November 2012.
Most clubs have their own ground to play on regularly, including a field and pavilion or club house. Some also have nets for practice. These facilities may be owned or leased by the club itself, or may be provided by the local authority. A groundsman may be employed to look after the pitch and the outfield on either a full-time or part-time basis, or in smaller clubs the pitch may be maintained by the players themselves on a voluntary basis.
Baxter commentated on the end of the 1992 World Cup Final between England and Pakistan in Melbourne. In 2001 he was locked out of the ground by the groundsman at Galle, in Sri Lanka; he and BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew eventually watched the action from a nearby fort. Baxter retired on 19 June 2007--with his last TMS production going off the air at 18:30. He was succeeded by Adam Mountford, the former cricket producer of BBC Radio Five Live.
Andrew Wynand Louw (born 18 May 1961) is a Namibian cricket umpire who sits on the ICC Associates and Affiliates Umpire Panel. He made his first-class umpiring debut in 2006, and he regularly umpires in International Cricket Council (ICC) tournaments and other competitions in which the Namibian national side participates. Born in Windhoek, before taking up umpiring Louw was the head groundsman for Cricket Namibia, responsible for the upkeep of most major pitches in the country.Andreas Kathindi (6 April 2015).
Lock started repairing the ground in October 1945, in order to get it ready for the start of the 1946 season in April. Lock and his small staff levelled the playing field and laid some 45,000 pieces of turf, working from dawn till dusk. They successfully achieved their aim and the ground was ready for start of the 1946 season. Lock continued as Surrey's head groundsman until 1965, seven years after Surrey had been county champions for seven straight seasons.
Joseph Easby, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-06-03. Easby showed such promise as a cricketer that he was "persuaded to leave the Army" and took up the position of groundsman at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury in order that he could qualify to play county cricket for Kent. In local cricket he scored a century on the ground in his first appearance for St Lawrence Cricket Club in 1892 and made his Kent County Cricket Club first-class debut in 1895.
Lee & Thompson (1948), pp. 9–11. When Lee left school, he worked with his father as a greengrocer, a job he liked, but not enough to stop him writing a letter to the Marylebone Cricket Club, asking for a job on the ground staff at Lord's Cricket Ground.Lee & Thompson (1948), p. 11. Along with approximately 25 other boys, Lee was invited for a trial at Lord's early in 1906, and bowled under the observation of Alfred Atfield and the head groundsman, Tom Hearne.
In December 1931 Harper signed for Plymouth Argyle and went on to make 82 appearances in all competitions between then and 1939.GoS: Bill HarperSoccer at War – 1939 – 45 (2005): Jack Rollin During the Second World War he worked in the dockyards in Rosyth, Scotland. After the war he returned to Argyle where he served as a trainer, groundsman and even laundryman. Such was his contribution to the club that he was awarded a testimonial match against Arsenal in October 1972.
He later spent some time in New Zealand, where he struggled financially. A tobacconist by preference, he also worked as surveyor, clerk, station master and timber worker to feed his nine children. He was also at one stage the groundsman for the cricket ground in the Sydney suburb of Burwood, and later fossicked for gold at Fish River, near Bathurst. He died in June 1906 at his daughter's house in the Sydney suburb of Summer Hill after being ill for four months.
Early in the twentieth century one of the buildings had been the home of the novelist J. Meade Falkner, author of Moonfleet. In summer, Palace Green is sometimes used by students of Durham University as a croquet lawn on permission from the groundsman of University College Durham. 'Palace Green' is also the name of a hymn tune written by Michael Fleming (1928-2006) while a music student at the university, for the hymn 'Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above'.
Club secretary of Sheffield United, Joseph Wostinholm, arranged for Jones to take up a summer coaching position with Rugby School shortly before he left the club, adding to his former employers annoyance at his departure. Jones continued to coach both cricket and football at the school whilst playing for Tottenham Hotspur. Following his retirement from playing football, Jones coached both games in Leinster, Ireland and later in South Africa. In 1923, Jones returned to England and became coach and groundsman at Whitburn Cricket Club in Durham.
Born in Newport in 1933, Trigg was educated at Church Road School and Holy Cross and after leaving school became an apprentice groundsman. He took up his National Service, joining first the South Wales Borderers and then the Welch Regiment. His service took him to Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. After completing his National Service he married Valerie and the two took on a public house, the Coach and Horses in Caerwent near Chepstow, to which Trigg also added a gym where he trained other boxers.
Bailey would go on to make a further appearance against Suffolk in the 1979 Gillette Cup, while in between these matches he made 2 appearances for Minor Counties West against Gloucestershire and Warwickshire in the 1978 Benson & Hedges Cup. Even after he had stopped playing, Bailey still maintained a presence in cricket. He was head groundsman at the County Ground, Northampton for 10 years from 1986. Then the ground was used for both cricket and football, before football was moved to the Sixfields Stadium in 1994.
Water was heated by a coal boiler, which had to be lit and stoked on match days. After four teams had washed in the bath the consistency and colour of the water was similar to that of the pitches muddy and black. Being last in was no fun. When no rugby was being played the hockey girls used the team bath much to the delight of the groundsman who had a peep-hole through from the kitchen ostensibly so he could control the filling of the bath.
Hollinshead was born in Sandbach and began his career with Crewe Alexandra. He made five appearances under manager Harry Gregg but failed to forge a career in professional football and became a foreman groundsman with Cheshire County Council and played semi-pro football with Congleton Town, Eastwood Hanley, Kidsgrove Athletic, Newcastle Town and Rhyl. He turned to management with Congleton Vale and Alsager Town and had a successful spell with Stone Dominoes. He was appointed manager of Kidsgrove Athletic in the summer of 2012.
Mitchell was born in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, and moved to England when a teenager. His main sport was cricket, and he joined the Warwickshire ground staff at 15. Mitchell played 17 first-class matches for Warwickshire between 1946 and 1948, taking 22 wickets at an average of 38.9 with his right-arm medium-pace or off-break bowling, making 229 runs at an average of 8.29 and taking seven catches. He played for and became groundsman and secretary of Knowle and Dorridge Cricket Club.
Loxton appeared disappointed at playing such a wild cross-batted swing with a maiden Test century beckoning. Lindwall then made 77 to propel Australia to 458 on the fourth day, just 38 runs in arrears. In the second innings, Loxton took 0/29 from ten overs, and England batted on for five minutes on the final morning, adding three runs in two overs before Yardley declared at 8/365. Batting into the final day allowed Yardley to ask the groundsman to use a heavy roller.
First-class Batting for each season, CricketArchive, Retrieved on 8 November 2008 He scored 21 centuries, two coming against Kent at Coventry in 1927, his highest was a score of 211 against Gloucestershire in 1932.Gloucestershire v Warwickshire, County Championship 1932, CricketArchive, Retrieved on 8 November 2008 After retiring as a player in 1935 he fulfilled the role of coach and head groundsman at Christ's Hospital until 1963. He died at Coldwaltham following a long and debilitating illness in which both his legs were amputated.
Jack Pitt (20 May 1920 – 17 August 2004), also known as Jackie Pitt, was a former professional footballer who spent the majority of his career at Bristol Rovers. His testimonial match was at Bath on 13 August 1988 against Wimbledon. Pitt spent more than 50 years at Bristol Rovers as a player, coach and groundsman. He was part of the half back line "Pitt, Warren and Sampson" that guided the Rovers to promotion to Division Two in 1953 and sustained them in their early years there.
He made 342 runs at 38.00 in 1974-75, forming part of another Plunket Shield premiership side for Otago, and played in another trial match, for The Rest against a New Zealand side. He continued to play in the Plunket Shield (and its successor, the Shell Trophy) until 1978-79, scoring his third and final century, 101 not out, in a victory over Central Districts in 1977-78. He served as groundsman at Carisbrook, Otago's home ground, from 1984 to 1988.Pitchcare magazine Retrieved 8 December 2013.
Gary Thomas Towse (born 14 May 1952) is an English retired professional football goalkeeper and Utility player who played in the Football League for Brentford. He has had a long association with football in Folkestone after becoming a ballboy for his father's club Folkestone in 1958. He later played for the club as a goalkeeper and as an outfield player. He also served successor club Folkestone Invicta in a variety of roles, including goalkeeper, goalkeeping coach, groundsman and manager of the youth and reserve teams.
Robin Morris was alleged by the International Cricket Council for being involved as the match-fixer during Sri Lanka's home Test series against both Australia in 2016 and against India in 2017. Robin Morris was intended to have influenced in fixing allegations relating to Sri Lankan home matches for attempting pitch tampering by the ICC during Sri Lanka's 2nd test match against Australia in Galle and Sri Lanka's 1st test match against India in Galle. Robin was reported to have given bribes to groundsman, Tharanga Indika who works as the groundsman at the Galle International Stadium to monitor the pitch conditions in those 2 home matches played by Sri Lanka against Australia in 2016 and India in 2017 and was noticed to have earned from betting after analysing the Galle pitch conditions. Robin Morris explained that the Galle pitch was prepared in favour of bowlers and the Sri Lankan cricket team during the 2nd test against Australia in 2016 where Sri Lanka managed to win the match by a massive margin of 229 runs, where Australia lost all 20 wickets within 3 days when batting second consuming only 501 balls.
Dobson's first competitive game for The Blades came on 23 March 1891 in a 2–2 draw with Burton Wanderers. Considered a fine shot, Dobson was a regular during the 1891–92 season during which United competed in the Northern League and appeared in The Blades' first ever Football League game the following season. His appearances became more infrequent however and his last game came in October 1893. It is thought that United retained Dobson's registration until 1895, but he had retired through injury and returned to Preston where he became a groundsman at Deepdale.
After his full-time professional playing career ended, Smithson served as a professional cricket coach and groundsman, first at Caterham School, Surrey, and then at Abingdon School, Oxfordshire, and played Minor Counties cricket for Hertfordshire County Cricket Club. The Gerald Smithson Memorial Twenty20 Cricket Tournament was inaugurated at Abingdon School on 21 June 2009, with former England cricketer Devon Malcolm as the guest of honour. A photograph of Smithson wearing his pit clothes appeared in Wisden in 1948 on page 38. He married Anne Salter at St Peter's Church, Earley, Berkshire, in 1954.
After the war he moved to play for Lancashire playing for three seasons before emigrating to Canada. He took up posts as a coach with Vancouver Cricket Club, and as groundsman and economics teacher at Shawnigan Lake School. He was considered to be one of the leading cricket coaches in Canada, and continued playing, winning a place in the Canadian national team. He played five further first-class matches for Canada in the 1950s, including a return to the UK in 1954 as part of a Canadian touring team.
As time passes, however, they encounter the owner of one property and the groundsman of another, who are friendly and quite happy that they cross their land. At the beginning of the summer holidays they make the journey again and Marcel's mother feels a great fear and trepidation of meeting the owner. When they reach the final door they discover it has been padlocked. They are confronted by the caretaker of the final property and his dog who has been watching them for some time and who decides to make an official report.
The English women's cricket team have played two Test Matches on the ground, against New Zealand in 1996 and against Australia in 1998. The former Woodbridge Road groundsman, Bill Clutterbuck, won the Ransomes Jacobsen Trophy for Achievements in Cricket Groundsmanship at the ECB's annual pre-season dinner for First Class Groundsmen for 2006. Surrey currently play at least one first-class match at Woodbridge Road each season as part of a festival. In 2018 a new pavilion was opened offering much improved facilities and, in 2019, Surrey CCC took over ground maintenance.
Claud Woolley as Umpire in First-Class Matches, CricketArchive, Retrieved on 1 February 2009 He umpired one Test match, the second Test of the 1948 Ashes series.England v Australia, Australia in British Isles 1948 (2nd Test), CricketArchive, Retrieved on 1 February 2009 During a match between Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire in 1946 Woolley was temporarily required to officiate from both ends as fellow umpire George Beet was taken ill on the way to the game. After Woolley's umpiring career he worked as groundsman at Northampton until his death aged 76.
The stadium is projected to have an all-seated capacity of 8,005. It will comprise four stands; the East Stand (Main Stand), the West Stand, the North Stand and the South Stand. The three-floored East Stand is to accommodate hospitality guests, players, officials and the media, and will be connected to the adjacent retail and community facilities. The stands will stretch the length of the playing field, and each corner will host stadium facilities, including matchday emergency services, stewarding, groundsman accommodation, plant space and a fan zone.
The Vale Park pitch is one of the widest in the Football League. The pitch was originally laid over a filled-in marl hole and does not have a subsoil structure so is liable to flooding as it lacks proper drainage; a complete re-laying of the pitch would be needed to fix the issue (the club were quoted £450,000 for this work in 2014). The head groundsman since September 1992 is Steve Speed. He was one of three groundsmen nominated for the League Two Groundsmen of the Year award in 2009.
His highest score for South Australia was 72 in the first match of the 1965–66 season against Victoria, but his next match was also his last; like his first, ten years earlier, it was against a touring MCC team – for whom Ken Barrington and Jim Parks had played in both matches. Don Bradman found him a job assisting the groundsman at Adelaide Oval, and he developed his skills and qualifications and later became a foreman of parks and gardens in Melbourne. Sharpe lives with his wife Gillian in Melbourne. They have six children.
Jackie Mills's father George was an all- rounder who played for Auckland in the 1890s and 1900s and was the groundsman at Eden Park in Auckland.Cricketer obituary Retrieved 14 February 2013 A left- handed opening batsman, Mills played for Auckland from 1924–25 to 1937–38, and toured England with the New Zealand teams of 1927 and 1931, scoring over 1000 runs on each tour. In an Auckland senior club match for Eden against University in 1924–25, Mills and Hector Gillespie shared an opening stand of 441.Wisden 1955, p. 930.
Despite his reservations, the family use the key more and more and the reduced journey time allows them to visit the holiday home every weekend. They still have an apprehension each time they unlock a door fearing they will be caught. As time passes, however, they encounter the owner of one property and the groundsman of another, who are friendly and quite happy that they cross their land. At the beginning of the summer holidays they make the journey again and Marcel's mother feels a great fear and trepidation of meeting the owner.
England batted on for five minutes during the final morning, adding three runs in two overs before Yardley declared at 365/8, with Evans unbeaten on 47. Johnston had the pick of the bowling figures, with 4/95. Batting into the final day allowed Yardley to ask the groundsman to use a heavy roller at the start of the morning, which would help break up the wicket and make it more likely to spin. Bradman had done a similar thing during the previous Ashes series in Australia before setting England a target.
Robin Morris, along with Dubai based business person Gaurav Rajkumar, Galle groundsman Tharanga Indika, and Sri Lankan first-class cricketer Tharindu Mendis have also been investigated by the ICC for attempting another pitch tampering at Galle in Sri Lanka's first test match against England as part of the England's series against Sri Lanka in November 2018. Concerns were raised by the English Cricket Board whether to play the series against Sri Lanka over the planned pitch tampering at the Galle Cricket Stadium for the first Test match or not.
This trend has increasingly been mirrored in the United Kingdom in such institutions as Ikon, Birmingham, UK and Baltic, Gateshead, UK. In Australia and New Zealand, the term also applies to a person who prepares a sports ground for use (especially a cricket ground). This job is equivalent to that of groundsman in some other cricketing nations. In France, the term curator is translated as conservateur. There are two kinds of curators: heritage curators (conservateurs du patrimoine) with five specialities (archeology, archives, museums, historical monuments, natural science museums), and librarian curators (conservateurs des bibliothèques).
The 1924–25 season marked Nelson's return to the Football League Third Division North following their relegation from the Second Division at the end of the previous campaign. It was the club's fourth season in the Football League, having previously competed in the Central League. Former Scotland international defender David Wilson retired from his player-manager role in the summer of 1924 in order to take up the managerial post full-time. Thomas Jacques, who had played for Nelson during their inaugural season in the Football League, was hired as the assistant coach and groundsman.
John Andrew Parker Harris (commonly known as Jack) was an English cricketer active in 1905 who played for Essex in two first-class matches and scored no runs. He was a wicketkeeper and spin bowler, who played for the Beckton cricket club and took four catches for Essex. He is listed in one publication as possibly having the initial J.Harris at CricketArchive Jack was born 13 November 1879, and died 24 May 1934. The latter part of his life was spent as coach and groundsman for the Kleinwort Sports Club in New Malden, Surrey.
Speller was later engaged as a groundsman for Birmingham F.C. On 22 April 1909, Speller went to Cookham to watch the 1909 FA Cup Final at the Crystal Palace. Speller, who was staying with his brother in Cookham, had recently suffered from influenza. According to his brother, Speller appeared "unwell" and weakened by the influenza, but otherwise normal. The following morning, however, Speller was found wandering down one of the main streets of Cookham "brandishing a heavy stake" and threatening a woman and a constable who approached him.
Knox College shares its site with Salmond College. Although the two colleges are mostly autonomous in regards to their daily operations, they are governed by the same body, the Board of Knox College and Salmond College, and, being part of the same organisation, they share several staff, including an Operations Manager, a Food Services Manager, a Property Manager and a Groundsman. Knox College enjoys a close relationship with its Anglican equivalent and arch-rival Selwyn College. The two colleges compete annually for the Nevill Cup (cultural events) and Cameron Shield (sporting events).
Baillie started his career with Coryton before signing for West Ham in 1925.Goalies He remained with West Ham for six seasons but made only 17 appearancesWelcome to the Wonderful World of West Ham United Statistics David Baillie in all competitions and was mainly used as an understudy to first choice keeper, Ted Hufton. He moved to Chester in 1929 under the managership of Charlie Hewitt and, at the end of his footballing career, returned to Upton Park where he took up the post of assistant groundsman. Baillie died in 1967.
After the War thumb Japan surrendered to the Allied forces on 5 September 1945. The immediate problem facing Lall Singh was how to look after and care for his ailing mother and two nieces as the family had been left penniless due to Japan's occupation of Malaya. Lall Singh had never worked in his life and was too proud to knock on anyone's door for help. Immediately, he started to look for a job and the only one in post war ravaged Malaya was that of groundsman at the acclaimed Selangor Club in Kuala Lumpur.
Conor studied Digital Film and Television at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. During his time there, he edited The Groundsman, the graduation film of fellow student Jonny Blair. His work on the film was widely praised and in 2014, he went on to win the Best Editor accolade at the 2014 British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards. He went on to study at the prestigious National Film and Television School where he won the Avid Award for Excellence in Editing for his work on the short film Fake News Fairytale.
The course hosts two early season Listed races - the Kilvington Stakes for fillies over 6 furlongs and the Further Flight Stakes over 1 mile 6 furlongs, named after the horse of that name. It also hosts the listed Nottinghamshire Oaks over 1 mile 2 furlongs in the early Summer for fillies and mares. In total, it hosted 23 race meetings in 2017, at an average of £50,467 prize money per meeting. Mr John Barnett was the courses longest serving employee, for over 25 years Mr Barnett served the course as a groundsman.
On 3 October 1934, Malacrida was killed in a single-vehicle crash while driving, alone, back to London from Cecil Roberts' country cottage just outside Henley. Her car was going uphill when it left the slippery road and plunged down over a 35-foot embankment; she died instantly from a broken neck. Her body, thrown from the car, was discovered by the groundsman of the Henley Cricket Club while her pet spaniel was discovered later uninjured. She was an experienced and competent driver, who had driven a car for 20 years.
Alan Duckworth (known as 'Quack Quack' to his friends) is a socially awkward fourteen-year-old who is obsessed with cricket and Ann Lawton, a girl in his class. Alan daydreams throughout his day, showing up late for school and making little academic progress. He becomes friends with the groundsman Tommy (Garry Cooper), whom he sees as some sort of 'war hero'. Alan often follows Tommy around, telling him how Tommy helped to win the war, while making predictions about what the post-war world will be like.
This placed him out of calculations for representative honours, especially as Sutcliffe established himself as a representative player that year. Nonetheless, in 1925 Russell hit seven centuries and scored 2,080 runs, whilst in 1928 he scored 131 and 104 against Lancashire, who were County Champions for the third successive year that season. After an injury-affected year in 1929, Russell only played one more season before retiring to become county coach and later a groundsman. In 1949, twelve years before he died, Russell was among the first professional cricketers to be given membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
On 27 May 2010 North Midlands RFU held an awards ceremony at Worcester Warriors Sixways Stadium in recognition of volunteers at rugby clubs within the North Midlands. Many awards were up for grabs including Young Volunteer and Groundsman of the Year. But the main award for North Midlands Volunteer of the Year was won by Yardley & District's Lloyd Winters. Winters, a former player of Yardley & District, has been chairman of Yardley & District's youth section for 16 years and was a key figure in them becoming one of the first clubs in the country to attain RFU Seal of Approval status.
The FA's rules meant he was unable to turn professional at a club until he was 17, and Lawton's grandfather rejected Bolton Wanderers's offer for Lawton to work as a delivery driver for two years before turning professional at the club. Lawton instead played as an amateur for Rossendale United in the Lancashire Combination, scoring a hat-trick on his debut against Bacup. He took up temporary work at a tannery, and then joined Burnley as assistant groundsman after his mother rejected an offer from Sheffield Wednesday as she objected to him travelling to Sheffield on a daily basis.
"Crescentic bronze plaque" in the shape of a gold lunula, with triskele-like decoration The discovery was made by William Owen Roberts, head groundsman of RAF Valley, when ground was being cleared for a runway extension. This involved spreading peat over the sandy ground, and the items were discovered during the extraction of peat from the Cors yr Ynys bog on the southern margin of Llyn Cerrig Bach. The first object to be found was an iron gang chain, used for slaves. This was caught up in the teeth of a harrow and was not at first identified as being ancient.
Initially the success of the club continued, with Kent being declared champion county again in 1843, 1847 and 1849 and in 1847 the club began using the St Lawrence Ground on the other side of Canterbury, Pilch once again moving to be the groundsman. This was later established as the county's formal headquarters, although Kent continued to play matches on a variety of grounds around the county until well into the 20th century, rarely using the St Lawrence Ground for more than two or three matches a year.Hignell A (2002) Rain Stops Play: Cricketing Climates, pp. 65–66.
Interview with VH1 History of Rock and Roll. As a teenager he learned to play on a borrowed guitar and made several attempts to build his own instrument, first by gluing and bolting together cigar boxes for the body and an unsanded fence-post for the neck with model aircraft control-lines and frets simply painted on. Upon leaving school, he attended Wimbledon College of Art, after which he was briefly employed as a painter and decorator, a groundsman on a golf course and a car paint-sprayer. Beck's sister Annetta introduced him to Jimmy Page when both were teenagers.
Rangers signed Shaw, known as 'Tiger' for his tough, physical style of play,Jock And Davie Shaw: How Two Brothers Became Scottish Football Icons, World Football Index, 29 April 2020 from Airdrieonians for £2,000 in July 1938. He went on make over 600 appearances for the Ibrox club, winning four Scottish league championships, three Scottish Cups and two League Cups. Shaw holds the distinction of being the captain of the first Scottish club to lift "the treble" of League, League Cup and Scottish Cup. After retirement in 1953 he remained associated with the club as third-team trainer and later groundsman.
During the war years Betts was a member of the Home Guard. When his work as a knitter in hosiery with CWS (Cooperative Wholesale Limited) ended, Betts earned a living as a payroll officer and part-time groundsman, for New Hucknall Colliery, supporting his wife and family until his death in 1978.Mellor K. Forest Road. Temple Printing (Nottingham)Ltd. 1986. Photographs and caption pages 48 and 50.Smales K. Forest The First 125 Years. The Official Statistical Record of Nottingham Forest Football Club. 1991. Published by Temple Printing (Nottingham) Ltd.. Pages 122–126. Page 138. Page 242.
In October 2017 a stadium groundsman, Pandurang Salgaoncar, was sacked after video emerged of him allegedly agreeing to tamper with the wicket before a one-day international between India and New Zealand. The sting operation was conducted by India Today TV. They captured Salgaoncar on camera allegedly stating he would prepare the pitch to suit two unnamed bowlers. The second ODI went ahead on schedule after the pitch had been inspected by match referee Chris Broad. The India Today footage of Salgaoncar speaking with a reporter, who was posing as a bookmaker, was broadcast a few hours before the match.
In eight first-class games, Smith scored 181 runs at 12.92, with a best of 40 not out, and took 18 wickets at 20.11 with a best of 4 for 46. He also played as a young professional in Scotland for Hawick, Melrose and Kelso and Langholm and later appeared for Worcestershire where he later became groundsman. Smith also stood once as a first-class umpire, in 1865.Cricketarchive.com After a period of Army service, he was known in Yeadon as 'Soldier Johnny', but at Worcester became known as 'The Doctor', because of the quality of the pitches he prepared.
When James Lillywhite's XI toured New Zealand in 1877, Yates was the highest scorer against them in any match, with an innings of 31 for an Auckland XXII. In his history of New Zealand cricket, Tom Reese rated Yates as Auckland's best batsman of his era. He was closely involved with the development of the cricket ground at the Auckland Domain, where Auckland played all their home matches from 1877 to 1913, and he served as groundsman there from 1894 to 1914. He was a talented violinist, who led the second violins of the Auckland Choral Society orchestra for over 30 years.
During World War I, Davis served in Italy where he incurred injuries to his legs. During the war he occasionally turned out for Millwall, including in a match against Clapton Orient in which he scored a hat-trick wearing army boots. Davis was forced to retire from football early in 1919 as a result of an injury to his knee and took up employment as a groundsman with Chelmsford, before working as a labourer in the London Docks. He was found drowned in Bow Creek on 20 May 1937 in mysterious circumstances as he was a strong swimmer.
He was considered by Malcolm Speed to be a good enough bowler to have played Test cricket for any other side, but at the time Merrick played the West Indies had an excellent group of fast bowlers.Speech to Sonny Ramadhin Cricket Lecture in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the St Augustine Campus of UWI, CricInfo, 16 March 2007. Retrieved 22 December 2018. Since retiring Merrick has been a pitch consultant and has been the head groundsman at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.Antigua Prepares For Test Series, The Gleaner, 17 April 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
Aberdeenshire Cricket Club has four senior teams (SNCL Premier, Strathmore Union, Aberdeen Grade 1, Aberdeen Grade 4) and a host of junior teams (kwik cricket, U11, U13, U15 and U17). At the 2008 Lloyds TSB Scotland SNCL awards, Aberdeenshire received the Magners Club of the Year Award in addition to the flag as Division 1 winners. Ken McCurdie also received the Groundsman of the Year, in recognition of his efforts in connection with the staging of One-Day Internationals at Mannofield for the first time. Aberdeenshire featured in Sky Sports 'Clublife' series during the 2008 summer of England Test matches.
Money went towards attempts to set up drainage around the pitch, although this was to no avail as the boggy conditions still return after wet conditions. The volunteer work of various sponsors helped ensure that the costs were cut to a minimum with the advantage of Billy Goat Park being situated directly beside DCS Limited so machinery could be used at will. As well as the above, the money went towards a new lawnmower for the club's groundsman, and two brick huts to the right of the pitch. May 2019 saw the erection of a new storage facility on the club's ground.
Clay courts – The NTC has two different types of outdoor clay courts which have been designed to withstand the harsh UK climate and to allow for the longest possible clay court playing season and maximum use. There are four Italian clay courts (identical to the courts used at Foro Italico and Monte Carlo), and two French-Court synthetic clay courts. Grass courts – The LTA consulted All England Lawn Tennis Club head groundsman Eddie Seaward to advise on the installation of its four outdoor grass courts. The quality and playing characteristics replicate those found at the Wimbledon Championships.
Robin Morris explained that the Galle pitch was prepared in favour of the bowlers of the Sri Lankan cricket team during the 2nd test against Australia in 2016 where Sri Lanka managed to win the match by a massive margin of 229 runs. Australia lost all 20 wickets within 3 days and batting 501 balls. The groundsman said that the Galle wicket for the Australian test was prepared deliberately for the bowlers by preparing the pitch poorly without using a roller. He also ensured the bookmakers that the five-day test match would finish within three days rather than end in a draw.
Ashcroft played , was captain, and was man of the match in Warrington's 27-16 victory over Rochdale Hornets in the 1973–74 Player's No.6 Trophy Final during the 1973–74 season at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 9 February 1974, Ashcroft gave his £25 man of the match prize to Wigan's groundsman Billy Mitchell who had managed to get the water-logged pitch into a playable condition,Harry Edgar Rugby League In The Seventies, Rugby League Journal Publishing, 29 November 2013. . page-87. (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £442.70 in 2014).
England batted on for five minutes on the final morning, adding three runs in two overs before Yardley declared at 8/365. As the batting team is allowed to choose which (if any) roller can be used at the start of the day's play, this ploy allowed Yardley to ask the groundsman to use a heavy roller, which would help to break up the wicket and make the surface more likely to spin. Bradman had done a similar thing during the previous Ashes series in Australia in order to make the batting conditions harder for England.Fingleton, p. 172.
Duggie Reid The Independent, 13 February 2002 His goals helped Portsmouth win First Division in 1948–49 and 1949–50, with a hat-trick in a 5–1 final-day win in the 1949–50 season helping Portsmouth claim the title on goal average. With his Portsmouth days over, Duggie moved to non-league team Tonbridge in 1956 before returning to the south coast once again as Portsmouths groundsman, a post he held until 1978. Reid also ran a hostel for the club's young footballers in Southsea. Reid's son David also played for England at amateur level.
While in captivity, the Japanese had shaved his head and beard. Thereafter, he never again grew his hair or beard or wore a turban. A.B. Shamsi, (Baseer Shamsi) then a Captain in the British Indian Army, was posted from Burma to Malaya, Kula Lumpur and being a keen cricketer, he went to the Selangor Club to play cricket and was surprised to meet Lall Singh working as groundsman at the club. In 1946, A.B. Shamsi, married Lall Singh's elder niece Ajmer Kaur, who converted to Islam taking the maiden name of Neelum, on 11 September 1946.
This building had seating accommodation for three at a crush, and was subscribed on a first come, first save basis. 1937: The windowless 1906 pavilion was replaced with a new imposing structure providing spacious dressing room and committee accommodation. 1946: After war use, the park was completely levelled and re-turfed using voluntary labour supervised by groundsman Len Scott. Circa early 1970s: A small steel framed enclosure was constructed in front of the changing rooms over existing concrete terrace. 1975: New Pavilion/clubhouse constructed by converting and joining two surplus buildings purchased from the local education authority from Netherdale, Galashiels.
He was chosen to play for England against Australia in 1899, but declined as he had committed to a county match against the Australian side and did not want them to get used to his bowling. Paish played for Gloucestershire for a total of five seasons, between 1898 and 1903. Paish spent seven years as a sports coach for Downside College, before returning to cricket as the professional player for Gloucester City Cricket Club. At the end of World War I, Paish took a role as groundsman coach for Wagon Works, where he remained until his retirement in April 1948.
Born on 19 September 1951 in Pawas, Maharashtra, Solkar played as a bowling all-rounder who batted right-handed and bowled off spin. He had five siblings (including Eknath Solkar) and his father was a groundsman at the Hindu Gymkhana in Bombay. In a Harris Shield match in 1968, he scored 396 and took 6/28. This is regarded as the best all-round performance in school cricket. He made his first-class debut in the 1972/73 season for Railways and, in the same season, registered his career-best bowling figures of 8/100 in a Ranji match against Delhi.
Samuel Charles Abel (30 December 1908 – 26 September 1959) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Accrington Stanley, Chesterfield, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers, signing for QPR on 24 May 1934 after 2 seasons with Fulham. He was signed by QPR to play as a forward but later played right back. Signed for Tunbridge Wells Rangers for 1938–39 season During the war he was a Special Constable in the Harlesden area of London and played again for QPR during the war time league. After the war he became a groundsman at Wembley Stadium.
During Tasmanian Sheffield Shield matches at the Northern Tasmanian Cricket Association Ground (NTCA Ground), Ponting served as a scoreboard assistant, thereby surrounding himself with first-class and international cricketers.Ponting and Staples (1998), pp. 10–11. After leaving school at the end of year 10 as a 16-year-old in 1990, he began work as a groundsman at Scotch Oakburn College, a private school in Launceston. In 1991, the Northern Tasmanian Cricket Association sponsored Ponting so that he could attend a fortnight's training at the Australian Institute of Sport's Cricket Academy in Adelaide.Richardson (2002), p. 26.
In 1980, a combined Minor Counties team played against Essex in the 1980 Benson & Hedges Cup. In 1981, Middlesex used the ground for a List-A match against the touring Sri Lankans. In 1983 the ground was selected to host a 'warm-up' match ahead of the World Cup, between India and New Zealand. The quality of the pitches was the main reason for the selection of an amateur club's ground, thanks to the efforts and expertise of groundsman Peter Southam who was an employee of Watford Borough (which still owns Woodsde) and devoted his time and attention to the Woodside sports pitches, especially cricket and bowls.
Outside of playing cricket, he works as Cricket Namibia's head groundsman, having replaced Wynand Louw in the position. Lungameni is one of the few black players to play at a high level in Namibia.Michael Uugwanga (10 December 2014). "Lungameni not for quota cricket" – Informanté. Retrieved 10 April 2016. In August 2018, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2018 Africa T20 Cup. In October 2018, he was named in Namibia's squad in the Southern sub region group for the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Africa Qualifier tournament in Botswana. On 29 October 2018, in the match against Mozambique, he took a hat-trick.
Tharindu Mendis who turned his profession from cricketer to a cricket coach has been found guilty for involving in discussing with the match-fixers on planning to fix England's upcoming first Test against Sri Lanka in November 2018. He along with former Indian domestic cricketer Robin Morris and Pakistani domestic cricketer Hasan Raza were reported by Qatar news network, Al Jazeera for planning to tamper the pitch conditions at the Galle International Stadium prior to the start of the Test series between England and Sri Lanka in November 2018. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) suspended Tharindu Mendis and the Galle groundsman Tharanga Indika with immediate effect following the controversy.
"We owned him lock, stock and barrel," Toye retrospectively boasted. They also signed Mike Dillon in 1975. The Pelé deal was later described by Gavin Newsham, an English writer, as "the transfer coup of the century". His arrival turned the Cosmos from a motley crew of foreigners, semi-professionals and students into a huge commercial presence. The club's groundsman, on hearing that the Brazilian's début for New York was to be broadcast on CBS, spray-painted the pitch green to disguise how little grass was on it: the match, against the Dallas Tornado, was broadcast to 22 countries and covered by more than 300 journalists from all over the world.
He got Randall a trial at Rovers and after impressing in the trial match he was invited back to play in the youth team and 'A'-team matches but after a year he was released. After leaving school he went to work with his dad as a groundsman at Millfield and was still playing for Glastonbury Town now under the management of former Cardiff City player Peter Thomas. Randall scored 24 goals in his first season under Thomas and he soon got him a trial with Cardiff City. Randall had now left Millfield with his father and began working with his sister as a shelf- stacker at Andersons Supermarket.
In 1979, a 17-year-old boy, Scott Cantrell, shot himself in the head in Pallenberg's bed with a gun owned by Keith Richards, while at the South Salem, New York, house shared by Richards and Pallenberg. The youth had been employed as a part-time groundsman at the estate and was involved in a sexual relationship with Pallenberg. Richards was in Paris recording with the Rolling Stones, but his son was at the house when the teen killed himself. Pallenberg was arrested; however, the death was ruled a suicide in 1980, despite rumours that she and Cantrell had been playing a game of Russian roulette.
He first played for Sussex in 1901 and, in total, he played 15 first-class games for the team, but his only notable performances were in 1902: he took five wickets for 22 runs against Nottinghamshire and shared a partnership of 115 for the ninth wicket with K. S. Ranjitsinhji. He remained with the club in 1903 but was not a first choice in the team and played only intermittently afterwards until 1905. He continued to live in Sussex and became a player, coach and groundsman at Pease Pottage, earning a good reputation for encouraging cricket in the local area. He died in 1945, aged 72.
The eight players shared the proceeds of a match staged on 24 March 1982 at Ashton Gate between Ipswich Town and Southampton in front of 6,200 spectators. On the field Rodgers made 18 appearances without scoring for Bristol City. After leaving Bristol City, David Rodgers played on a non-contract basis for Torquay United in February 1982 and then on a similar basis for Lincoln City in March 1982 before returning to the West Country with Forest Green Rovers. After Rodgers finished playing he worked briefly as groundsman at Bristol Grammar School before joining nearby Clifton College in January 1985 as the general manager of services.
England declared at 8/365 early on the fifth morning, leaving Australia to chase 404 runs for victory. Batting into the final day allowed Yardley the right to ask the groundsman to use a heavy roller, which would help to break up the wicket and make the surface more likely to spin and bounce unevenly. At the time, 404 would have been the highest ever fourth innings score to result in a Test victory for the batting side. Australia had only 345 minutes to reach their target, and the local press wrote them off, predicting that they would be dismissed by lunchtime on a deteriorating wicket expected to favour spin bowlers.
On 12th July 1996, the new Club Office or "Tent", which is popularly known in Kolkata maidan, was inaugurated by the oldest member of the East Bengal Club. The then club secretary Mr. Dipak "Poltu" Das gave the honour to Mr. Shankar Pillai (popularly known as Shankar Mali) who was the oldest groundsman and caretaker of the club, to inaugurate the new club tent in the presence of club legends like Ahmed Khan and Byomkesh Bose. The club ground was renovated and a new office was setup at the place where it is currently situated. The playing field was relaid North to South and the new fans gallery was constructed.
Samuel Harold Bates (16 June 1890 – 28 August 1916) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in five matches for Warwickshire between 1910 and 1912. He was born at Edgbaston cricket ground, Edgbaston, Birmingham, where his father was head groundsman, and died in the fighting of the First World War at Hardecourt-aux-Bois in northern France. In his lifetime, he was generally referred to as "Harold Bates". The older brother of the batsman Leonard Bates, who played for Warwickshire for more than 20 years on either side of the First World War, Samuel Bates was a right-handed tail-end batsman and a left-arm orthodox spin bowler.
Occasionally the Headmaster would make several students swap a lesson of Scripture for an hour of cleaning out the chicken coops and the cow sheds down by the entrance from Bancroft. The School groundsman and cow-herd were summoned with the use of King's megaphone from his Oxford years, and often he left the School on Tuesdays to take part in the local Farmers' Market. Often the running of the School was left to Second Master Freddie Jones. School funds had balanced out again by the end of the 19th century, and in 1908 the School was able to start the Junior Preparatory School for younger boys that would now go to primary and junior schools.
William Patrick Redgrave (23 January 1881 – 28 November 1931) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington and Hawke's Bay in New Zealand from 1903 to 1909. Bill Redgrave moved to Wellington from Sydney in 1903, taking a position as a groundsman at Basin Reserve. He began representing Wellington in December 1903. He had his best season in 1905-06 when he finished at the top of the New Zealand first-class batting averages with 286 runs at an average of 57.20. In Wellington’s match against Hawke’s Bay he opened the batting on the first day and made 165, which set a Wellington first-class record that stood for several years.
George Christopher Collins (21 September 1889 – 23 January 1949) was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club and Marylebone Cricket Club. Born in Gravesend, Kent, Collins played at both Gravesend and at Cobham, where his father Christopher had played under the captaincy of Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley. His father was subsequently groundsman at the Bat and Ball Ground, Gravesend and later ran a sports outfitters in the town, so it was natural that son should follow father into cricket. He played for junior Kent sides from the age of 16, and made his first-class debut during the 1911 season, in a match against Gloucestershire played in Gravesend.
Bateson back in Torquay chair He immediately restored his wife Sue to a Director's post, promoted his daughter Debbie, wife of former Torquay player, groundsman and coach Richard Hancox, to managing director and reappointed three locally based directors who had resigned as a protest over Roberts' handling of the club. In May 2007, after Torquay's relegation to the Conference National, Bateson stood down as chairman of Torquay United, with Mervyn Benney taking over. Later that month he agreed to sell his stake in the club to a consortium headed by Cris Boyce, son of former Torquay United chairman, Tony Boyce.Bateson agrees deal to sell Gulls and the club has prospered as a result.
Zelena, Snow, David, and Hook soon find themselves in a new realm, but Zelena has no way to return as her wand broke upon arrival. The four come across a frightened groundsman who warns them they shouldn’t be there, only to have another man appear and use magic to knock the unwanted visitors out. Hours later, they wake up in a cage of enchanted bars and are greeted by the warden, who believes that the Dark One must have sent them; they are enemies. They convince the warden that Gold is their enemy as well, and their arrival was an accident on his part in trying to wake Belle; however, the warden keeps them prisoner anyhow.
It was Hunter who decided to take the team to Blackpool for a few days' relaxation prior to the final, which had been unheard of previously. In the final (against Old Etonians played on 31 March 1883 at the Kennington Oval), Hunter played at centre half and marshalled the defence, who were able to keep the Old Etonians forwards at bay thus allowing the fitter Olympics side to come from behind to claim the cup with a 2–1 victory after extra time. Hunter remained with Olympic until 1887, before joining Blackburn Rovers. After a short spell playing for Rovers, Hunter became assistant trainer and groundsman at Ewood Park, as well as working as a licensee in Blackburn.
Much of the credit for St Bernard's resurrection during this period must go to Tom "Brandon" Ross, who doubled as trainer & groundsman, and was the winner of the annual Powderhall New Year Sprint at the remarkable age of 46. But there also came unexpected help from Heart of Midlothian, who allowed St Bernard's to play at Tynecastle during this time. In 1931, a former Hearts player even donated maroon socks for the club's kit! During the Depression, St Bernard's showed remarkable innovation in providing unemployed players with jobs whether in the Royal Gymnasium or with firms owned by the company's directors: resulting in them gaining talent that otherwise may have gone elsewhere or left football altogether.
The charity is sponsored both corporately and individually, and especially with the help of active and retired cricketers. The Foundation for Sport and the Arts, Lord's Taverners, British Land plc, Sportsmatch and the MCC support in various ways. Individuals are invited to join the Heavy Rollers, a little joke suggesting that they possess money and propel the heavy roller used to flatten the cricket wicket. The Heavy Rollers are led by Head Groundsman, Clive Lloyd, the ex-West Indies captain and assistant head groundsmen, who are senior cricketers such as Mike Brearley, Roland Butcher, Donald Carr, Mike Denness, Ted Dexter, Paul Downton, John Edrich, Keith Fletcher, Angus Fraser, Mike Gatting, Graham Gooch, David Gower, Tom Graveney, Tony Lewis, Brian Luckhurst, Alec Stewart, Bob Willis and Don Wilson.
It is revealed that Felix comes from a very wealthy family, and this is realised when they arrive at his home; a beautiful, but a seemingly abandoned mansion. After trying to find a way into the building, they are interrupted by the groundsman, Woodbridge (David Sterne), who tells them the correct address; a small shack half a mile down the beaten track, in the forest behind the mansion. They walk through the woods to the shack, where they are welcomed by a mysterious, handsome man named Justin (David Oakes), who reveals himself to be the elder brother of Felix. Justin reveals that due to last-minute flight cancellation, Felix will be unable to join them for the party, but welcomes them to stay for drinks anyway.
In 1950, Sultan Sir Hishamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, the Sultan of Selangor, a friend of the Gill family, visited the Selangor Club and was shocked to see Lall Singh working as a groundsman. To cut a long story short, the Sultan started the process of rehabilitating the estates of the Gill family to Lall Singh. Since most of the estates, fixed and moveable assets were in the name of Lall Singh's mother who had died in 1946 and SS Gill who had been hanged in 1942, it took over 2 years for these properties to be reissued in the name of Lall Singh in 1953. Lall Singh, spent rest of his days travelling abroad, mostly to Paris on a yearly basis in summer.
Jack, a young blacksmith's son, sits at the edge of the forest, waiting for the arrival of "Thursday's Children", mythical fairy creatures that supposedly live in the forest, appearing only at Midsummer's Eve. Midsummer's Day also happens to be the coming of age of Lord Melstock, a local noble, who has escaped from the stress of ruling. He tells his wife Henrietta about the legend of the local spirits that dwell in the forest, who supposedly would light bonfires at Midsummer ("Dream Nights"). They are interrupted by the local groundsman, Matthews, who reports that his daughter Charlotte has eloped with a local boy, Alexander, despite being engaged to David Swann, a local Captain and former betrothed of Jennifer Farthing, the Admiral's daughter.
Despite doubts expressed by Dalfino, the authorities started busing the immigrants from around midday to the Stadio della Vittoria, an out of use stadium, where they would be kept until their deportation. By the afternoon the Albanians had understood that they were ultimately to be sent home, groups of them tried to force their way through the police cordon surrounding the stadium. With many managing to escape, the authorities then decided to stop bringing anyone to the stadium and close the gates, locking them inside. The situation spun further out of control, the stadium's groundsman was effectively held hostage until the intervention of the mayor, personnel supervising the fair handling out of food were assaulted and the police then evacuated the stadium.
A constant theme was the club's thwarted search to sign a new striker who might have scored the goals to save the team from relegation. The boardroom was also not out of bounds as the documentary records the club's decision to float on the stock market, as well as meetings and debates regarding the club's move to a new home, the Stadium of Light. The most memorable feature of the series was the language used by then-manager Peter Reid and his assistant Bobby Saxton during team-talks, usually at half- time, which were often full of swearing. The show often brought minor local fame to members of staff at the club, arguably most memorably, the then- groundsman Tommy Porter.
He had previously worked with Coventry City, West Ham United and The Football Association before becoming one of Mark Hughes' first appointments when he took over as manager of Blackburn Rovers in 2004. Strudwick was at Blackburn for three seasons, before Manchester United approached him as a replacement for their outgoing fitness coach, Valter Di Salvo, in the summer of 2007. In April 2008, Strudwick was involved in an altercation between some of Manchester United's players, including Patrice Evra and Gary Neville, and the ground staff at Chelsea. During a warm-down led by Strudwick, it was claimed by Chelsea's head groundsman, Jason Griffin, that Strudwick had become abusive and foul-mouthed when asked not to warm down in the penalty area.
Although he was a "prolific scorer of runs" at Second XI level and considered a "stylish right-handed batsman", Mayes was considered a "bad starter" and he made 23 ducks during his career. He was released by Kent at the end of the 1953 season. He went on to become coach and groundsman at Woolverstone Hall School near Ipswich in Suffolk from 1957 to 1987 where he coached future England international Graham Barlow when he was a pupil at the school. He played for Suffolk County Cricket Club in the Minor Counties Championship between 1957 and 1963, making 57 appearances for the county and scoring 729 runs in 1959, at that point a record total for the county in a single season.
Retrieved 2016-04-20. He represented Scotland twice, once in a Scotland XI in 1930 against the touring Australians and once, in a capped match, in 1936 against Sir Julien Cahn's XI. He took the wicket of the Australian captain Bill Woodfull in the first match and was described as doing "far better than his figures would appear to suggest"Scotland XI v Australia 19 & 21 July 1930, The Scotsman, 1930. Retrieved 2016-04-20. as he took 2/94.Scotland XI v Australians - scorecard, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-04-20. After playing professionally, Preston became a groundsman at the Central Recreation Ground in Hastings. He played for Hastings and St Leonards Priory Cricket Club into his 60s and retired after an accident with a lawn mower which led to the loss of this right hand.
Morris took two wickets in the match, including English captain Arthur Shrewsbury, and made just fourteen runs (4 as an opener in the first innings, 10 not out in the second batting at number ten) as Australia lost by ten wickets. His mother Elizabeth McGuiness was Tasmanian of West Indian descent and his father Isaac Morris was from Barbados had travelled to Australia in the gold-rush years of the 1840s. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1855, Samuel initially played cricket in Daylesford before being enticed to play cricket in Melbourne. Played his club cricket in Victoria for Melbourne's St Kilda club where he later became the groundsman at Richmond (Punt Road Oval), Melbourne University and South Melbourne before suffering from blindness in his later years.
In addition to playing first-class matches for Hampshire, Creese also represented the Players in the 1935 Gentlemen v Players fixture and represented the Combined Services in two matches after the war, coming against Oxford University and Surrey in 1946. In 1949 Creese joined Dorset, playing for the county in the Minor Counties Championship from 1949 to 1950, with all four of his fixtures for Dorset coming against Berkshire. Prior to joining Dorset Creese stood as an Umpire in three Minor Counties fixtures; two in 1947 and one in 1948. After this Creese served as a Groundsman at the Central Recreation Ground at Hastings for some years, during which his small grandson, whom he idolised, was killed by the heavy roller in the interval between innings in a Festival match.
In January 1937, First Division club Everton paid Burnley £6,500 to secure Lawton's services, and also gave his grandfather a job as deputy groundsman at Goodison Park; the fee was a record for a player under 21. The move to Everton made him a teammate of Dixie Dean, his boyhood idol, who he was expected to gradually replace as first choice centre-forward. He later recalled that on his way to Goodison Park on his first day as an Everton player he was told by a tram conductor that "You're that young Lawton, aren't you? You'll never be as good as Dixie." Dean was finally rested on 13 February, which allowed Lawton to make his first team debut against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux; the match ended in a 6–2 defeat, though Lawton scored a penalty.
Wright was appointed full-time manager of St Mirren in December 1966, aged 35, on the recommendation of former Clyde and Scotland manager John Prentice whom St Mirren had initially approached for the role. As St Mirren's only other full-time employee was the groundsman, Wright was also responsible for the day-to-day administration of the part-time club; from answering the telephone and selling tickets, to compiling the match programme and ordering the match-day pies. In terms of his interaction with the players, however, he was St Mirren's first track-suit manager. St Mirren had flirted with relegation throughout the early 1960s and eventually succumbed at the end of that 1966–67 season despite having 19-year-old Archie Gemmill in the side, but Wright guided them to promotion back to the top flight at the first attempt.
Dennis Breakwell (born 2 July 1948) is a former English first-class cricketer who made over 400 appearances between 1969 and 1984 playing for Northamptonshire and Somerset County Cricket Clubs. A left-handed batsman and slow left-arm orthodox bowler, Breakwell developed into an all-rounder as his career progressed, and he featured in a series of strong Somerset sides alongside Viv Richards, Joel Garner and Ian Botham, rooming with the latter in his early days at the club. Following the end of his playing career he became groundsman at King's College, Taunton coaching among others England batsman Jos Butler and Somerset's Alex Barrow. Breakwell is best remembered for being hit for six consecutive sixes by South African all-rounder Mike Procter in the Gloucestershire versus Somerset County Championship match at Taunton on the 27th of August, 1979.
At the end of the 1957–58 season Cheshunt were asked to leave and so returned to the Cheshunt Stadium. Chairman Les Noble and vice-chair Frank Davis moved quickly to secure a 21-year lease on the stadium (which was about to be used by a new club, Waltham Cross FC) and spent £2,500 getting bulldozers in to level space for the present stand and Clubhouse (then the changing rooms too) to be built and clearing the banking to make way for a running track around the pitch (which was removed in the 1980s). The clubhouse and pitch were ready for the opening game of the 1957–58 season against Wingate. A year later the main stand was built by the groundsman Albert Prior, his son Maurice and chairman Frank Davis in their spare time.
His father died in Naples in July 1943, of wounds inflicted while serving in Sicily as a captain with the 1st Battalion of the Green Howards during the Second World War, when Verity was 10 years old. He was educated at Littlemoor Primary School in Rawdon, alongside future Yorkshire cricketers Brian Close and Bryan Stott, and at Woodhouse Grove School at Apperley Bridge, near Bradford. After leaving school, he became a groundsman and cricket professional for Yeadon in the Bradford Cricket League, but retired from cricket after suffering an injury at football trials with Leeds United FC. He moved to Snowdonia in 1955 to manage the Pen- y-Gwryd Hotel, which had been used as a training base by the team that first climbed Mount Everest in 1953. He enjoyed mountain climbing, and was an early volunteer with the Snowdon Rescue Service.
An all-rounder who played for Sussex as a left-handed batsman and, later in his career, a left arm medium pacer, he scored over 1,500 runs in 1950 to establish himself in their first team. Equally adept at opening the batting, or scoring runs in the middle order as required, Smith's bowling blossomed at the age of 32 when he took 73 wickets, and more good form in 1957, saw him selected for England against the West Indies. Although he found little success in his three Tests against them (amassing 25 runs in four innings), he did score 147 for his county against the tourists, and finished the 1957 season with 2088 runs and five centuries. After retiring from playing cricket in 1962, Smith became the coach and groundsman at Lancing College, before coaching Sri Lanka in their early days of Test cricket.
On 26 May 2018 Al Jazeera news channel findings depict that possibly pitch tampering would have happened during the home test matches involving Sri Lanka against Australia in 2016 and against India in 2017. The news channel also stated that through monitoring the pitch conditions the fixers have managed easily to make money. Match-fixers Robin Morris, a former Indian domestic cricketer along with Dubai based business person Gaurav Rajkumar, Galle groundsman Tharanga Indika and Sri Lankan first-class cricketer Tharindu Mendis have also been investigated by the ICC for attempting another pitch tampering at Galle in Sri Lanka's forthcoming first test match against England as a part of the England's upcoming series against Sri Lanka in November 2018. Concerns also raised by the English Cricket Board whether to play away series against Sri Lanka over the planned pitch tampering at the Galle Cricket Stadium for the first Test match.
Clough and Taylor had guided Hartlepools to an eighth-placed finish in Division Four during the 1966–67 season and was recommended to Derby chairman Sam Longson by former England striker Len Shackleton, who had been working as a journalist in the North East. The duo's first season in charge of Derby saw the club finish one place lower, 18th, than the previous campaign but it saw the recruitment of numerous players, such Roy McFarland, John O'Hare and Alan Hinton, who between them made 1,154 appearances for the club and would go on to form the spine of the club's most successful ever side. Of the inherited squad, eleven players departed and only four were retained: Kevin Hector, Alan Durban, Ron Webster and Colin Boulton. Clough also fired the club secretary, the groundsman and the chief scout, along with two tea ladies he caught laughing after a defeat.
The SLC also refuted some of the allegations made by Al Jazeera, claiming that it is not a strange thing to prepare a turning bouncy track in Galle for test matches. The SLC defended Al Jazeera's claims on preparing a spin friendly turning pitch to favour the spin bowlers during the 2016 Galle test match between Sri Lanka and Australia where Australia lost 18 out of the 20 wickets to Sri Lankan spinners in the Galle test. The SLC also reacted negatively to the documentary's claims on pointing out the involvement of the Galle groundsman, stating that the person didn't have any authoritative powers to alter the conditions of the pitch. The SLC later revealed that the future test matches scheduled against England and South African cricket team at the Galle cricket stadium in 2018 would be shifted to other cricket grounds following the controversy.
Lightfoot gave valuable service to Northamptonshire for nearly twenty years, before extending his stay at the County Ground as head groundsman between 1973 and 1978. When Lightfoot was signed in 1953, it was principally as a medium-fast bowler, but he soon emerged as a talented left-handed batsmen, with his breakthrough being a maiden century against Surrey at The Oval in 1958, when he helped Raman Subba Row add a record-breaking 376 for the sixth wicket. However, many Northamptonshire fans who witnessed his career will be quicker to mention the one run that he didn't make rather than the 12,000 that he did. Against Richie Benaud's 1961 Australians, Northamptonshire mounted a spirited challenge after being left to score 198 for victory in two and a half hours, and Lightfoot's gallant half-century helped reduce the target to four runs off the final over.
Although Churchill's, described by Lewington as "the worst club that has ever been in Reading", tolerated such behaviour, the town's fashionable Sindlesham Mill nightclub did not, regularly barring Friday for his bizarre activities, including a dance he invented called "the elephant" which consisted of turning the pockets of his jeans inside out and undoing his flies to expose himself. He and his friends would regularly drink all day, though he was able to exert some self-control; according to his friend Syd Simmonds, Friday would obey Hurley's instruction not to drink for 48 hours before each game. However, he would play his prized heavy metal records very loudly at any time of the day or night and take LSD with casual indifference. Hurley attempted to calm Friday down by moving him into an apartment above the football club's elderly ex-groundsman, but to no avail: "Even if it was three in the morning, the first thing would be to get the music playing", Simmonds later said.
The groundsman of the Galle International Stadium who is also the assistant manager of the stadium gave a statement to Al Jazeera that he can manage pitches in such a way that it would favour either batsmen or bowlers. The Al Jazeera's Investigation Unit also revealed that Hasan Raza, Jeevantha Kulatunga, and Dilhara Lokuhettige were preparing to make money by organizing and arranging a fake tournament in the UAE solely to make a huge collection of money to fix matches in the future. Al Jazeera also claimed that another businessman from India, Aneel Munawar, who also has close connections with crime boss Dawood Ibrahim is assumed to have dealt with a few international cricketers so as to have them under perform on the international cricket level by giving them a huge bribes. Al Jazeera also released photographs which were taken in Sri Lanka's Cinnamon Grand Hotel related to Aneel Munawar, who was standing just some distance away from the former English cricketers, Tim Bresnan and Graeme Swann.
Leonard Thomas Ashton Bates (20 March 1895 – 11 March 1971) was an English cricketer. He was a right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler who played for Warwickshire. Born in the pavilion at Edgbaston Cricket Ground where his father, John, was head groundsman,Wisden 1972 – Obituaries, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Retrieved on 8 November 2008 Bates would go on play 200 first-class matches at the ground scoring over 8,000 runs.First-class Batting and Fielding record on each ground, CricketArchive, Retrieved on 8 November 2008 In total Bates represented his county 441 times between 1913 and 1935, he also made two appearances for 'The Rest' against England in 1927 and once for the Players against Gentlemen in 1925.First-class Batting and Fielding record for each team, CricketArchive, Retrieved on 8 November 2008 Bates scored a total of 19,380 first-class runs at an average of 27.84, passing 1,000 runs in a season 12 times and three times passing 1,500.
After making his debut in the Oxford-financed film Privileged (1982), Grant dabbled in a variety of jobs, such as working as an assistant groundsman at Fulham Football Club, tutoring, writing comedy sketches for TV shows, and working for Talkback Productions to write and produce radio commercials for products such as Mighty White bread and Red Stripe lager. At a screening of Privileged at BAFTA in London, he was approached by a talent agent offering to represent him. Still intending to begin his MPhil at the Courtauld Institute, Grant declined, but then later reconsidered, thinking that acting for a year would be a good way to save some money for his studies. Soon afterwards he was offered a supporting role in The Bounty (1984) starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins, but was prevented from playing the role because he didn't yet have an Equity card, which could only be earned through acting in regional theatre.
They reached a point where they needed only another 66 in 45 minutes with seven wickets left. But Bailey went back to his long run and slowed the over rate, as well as bowling negatively wide of the leg stump, and Australia fell 30 runs short and the game was drawn.Ralph Barker & Irving Rosenwater, England v Australia: A compendium of Test cricket between the countries 1877–1968, Batsford, 1969, , p 220. England went on to win the fifth and final Test and so regained the Ashes. His best Test bowling figures of 7/34, bowling outswing on a flat pitch, enabled England to bowl out the West Indies for 139 in the first innings of the fifth Test at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1953–54, on a pitch on which the groundsman expected the home side to score 700. This enabled England to win the match and to share the series 2–2.
He married Sarah Rawcliffe from Lancashire in Glossop and, when his playing career came to an end, moved with his wife to Hertfordshire in 1903 where he took up a position as the first player/manager of Watford of the Southern League for 3/10s/0d a week and stayed in position until May 1910, when he became the groundsman. An Observer reporter visited Goodall in May 1903, as he prepared for the new season and, in part, wrote this: His impact of his reign at Watford was immediate. The club broke various records in winning Division Two of the Southern League in 1903–04. They went through the campaign undefeated, recording the highest FA Cup victory in the club's history (6–0 versus Redhill 31 October 1903) and having both the highest season (Bertie Banks) (21 goals) and single game goal scorer in the club's history (Harry Barton (6 goals v.
Brian Clough and Peter Taylor Statue at Pride Park Derby County had been rooted in the Second Division for a decade before Clough's arrival, and had been outside the top flight for a further five years, their only major trophy being the FA Cup in 1946. In Clough's first season, the club finished one place lower than in the previous season, but he had started to lay the foundations for his future success by signing several new players, among them Roy McFarland, John O'Hare, John McGovern, Alan Hinton and Les Green. Of the inherited squad, 11 players departed and only four were retained: Kevin Hector, Alan Durban, Ron Webster and Colin Boulton. Clough also sacked the club secretary, the groundsman and the chief scout, along with two tea ladies he caught laughing after a Derby defeat. With the additional signings of Dave Mackay and Willie Carlin in 1968, Clough and Taylor's management led Derby to become champions of Division Two, establishing the club record of 22 matches without defeat on the way.
Davies first played rugby as a schoolboy for Pontypridd Grammar School. After the end of the Second World War, while still a schoolboy he represented a Welsh team in two Victory internationals. Davies played his early club rugby for local team Cilfynydd RFC and sporadically he played for other more notable teams, playing his first game of four for Cardiff in the 1945/46 season. He joined Pontypridd where his natural ability was polished by endless training sessions under the tutorship of groundsman Dick Coates.Davies (1980), p. 307 It was while with Pontypridd that Davies was first called to the Wales national squad. His first cap was against Scotland in the 1947 Five Nations Championship, partnered at fly half with Haydn Tanner. Wales were comfortable winners, but the next game Davies was replaced by Billy Cleaver and Davies failed to be reselected for the rest of the campaign. In December 1947 Davies was chosen for his second Welsh international game, a 6–0 victory over the touring Australian team, this time partnered with Handel Greville.
Australian Rules football was also a big part of Ponting's sporting life, and is a keen follower of the North Melbourne Kangaroos. During the winter he played junior football for North Launceston and up until he was 14, it could have become a possible sporting option. This was before he broke the humerus in his right arm playing for North Launceston Under–17s as a 13-year-old. Ponting's arm was so badly damaged, it had to be pinned.Ponting and Staples (1998), p. 12. Told to endure a 14-week lay-off, he never played competitive football again.Richardson (2002), p. 24. During Tasmanian Sheffield Shield matches at the NTCA Ground (Northern Tasmanian Cricket Association Ground), Ponting helped out with the scoreboard, thereby surrounding himself with international cricketers.Richardson (2002), p. 25.Ponting and Staples (1998), p. 10–11. After leaving school at the end of year 10 in 1990, he began work as a groundsman at Scotch Oakburn College, a private school in Launceston. In 1991 the Northern Tasmanian Cricket Association sponsored Ponting to attend a fortnight's training at the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide.

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