Last night my amazing Dad lost his short battle with cancer my last words to him were
@LCFC
won 2-1 I got nod. He was truly a great dad who adored his granddaughters I’ll miss you Dad I’m going to make you proud.
So we are all ready for tomorrow
@WarwickshireCCC
….loads of hard work for the last few days in training and preparation in 27-29 degrees heat I hope it’s a great pitch for everyone to enjoy 👍🏏
@englandcricket
Brilliant by my team today who worked so hard to get play after 7 hours of rain…outfield took the rain well…firm and draining well playing after 90 minutes 👏👏👏we were quicker than Nadine Dorries 🤣
@WarwickshireCCC
I can’t believe the amount of disgusting messages I’ve read regarding the
@Gloscricket
groundstaff I’d welcome anyone to come and do our job day in day out .yes the square got wet but they can’t bring the covers on until the umpires call them on there a great team who work hard.
I’m so proud of my team never complained working at times in what seemed an up hill battle.....but we got there in the end..I wanted to say thanks to all players and staff for the words of encouragement they gave us and everyone’s messages 🙏 they mean so much
We're going to be a little bit biased for a moment..
- 55 hours of rain
- Over 75mm fell
Yet we got 3 excellent matches played by 4 deserving teams.
Thank you to
@barnstonworth
& your staff.
You're a credit, not just to us, but cricket as a whole. 👏
#Edgbaston
#FinalsDay
Trying everything
@WarwickshireCCC
to get play to start on time tomorrow any suggestions are welcome 🙏 Since October 2023 we have had 770 mm of rain till today that’s 30 inches of rain …so good luck to every Cricket grounds person out there professional or Amateur.
Day 1 to Day 5 mixed opinions on the pitch and outfield in my humble opinion with with over 1332 runs and 36 wkts with 24 to seam and 12 to spin and ends on day 5 last session also the outfield taking all that rain….brilliant test match with two brilliant teams
@WarwickshireCCC
16 games in 10 days
@birminghamcg22
for
@Edgbaston
and as normal my team smashed it again brilliant achievement let’s go again for the
@thehundred
on Wednesday Matchday number 35 of 49
I can’t believe what happened last night winning the Groundsman of the year is unbelievable I want to thank my team and everyone who’s helped me in my career I want to dedicate this to my Dad who’s been ill recently this is for you Dad
@WarwickshireCCC
@the_iog
7 championship games,4 RL 50,7 T20 games, 5 World Cup games, 1 Ashes test match, T20 finals day......unbelievable summer with an amazing team of Groundstaff
@WarwickshireCCC
Thanks lads
A few months ago I was asked if a all female grounds team could deliver the IT20
@WarwickshireCCC
I agreed on one condition it had to be professional women from the industry doing it from start to finish. Working with these women all week has been a pleasure.1/2
So today I’m so proud of my team we jointly won the 4 day / test pitches award for first time since Bernard flack in 1974 for
@WarwickshireCCC
and a commendation in 1 day ….so incredibly proud..that’s for you Dad xx
Well there you have it I’m officially rubbish at my job live on
@btsportcricket
with all the other first class groundstaff around the country thanks
@markbutcher72
…..so I’ll pack my mower up and go and find another job……
After 25 years at
@WarwickshireCCC
today we presented Dave Keen with his bear a true legend of Warwickshire lovely man great Groundsman and friend well done dave
Yesterday’s pitch really proud of my team again through the tournament I hope this pitch was good enough for
@markbutcher72
..superb atmosphere and I listened to 1992 semi at school and 2019 I’ve produced the pitch so good luck
@ECB_cricket
feet up Sunday watching
@chriswoakes
So last week Was incredibly hard and wet but again my team did me proud as they always do … we as a group are highlighted as we are on tv but groundstaff up and down the country working extremely hard last week got games on everywhere so this is to highlight what we all do 👏
What a difference a day makes!
30mm on Friday and 60mm over the week, plus all the interruptions yesterday.
An incredible effort from Gary Barwell and his staff. Thank you. 🤝
#Edgbaston
|
#FinalsDay
Last international pitch of the summer can’t lie it’s been a tough one this season and the fact since June the 19th the average time between games is 3 days …. Has been hard.
RISING STARS
It’s a huge well done and congratulations to U16s James and Tyler. The lads have been nominated by the WCB for the ‘Rising Star of Grassroots Cricket Award’.
The lads have grafted all season to look after the ground after we were unable to find a groundsman!
I have read some really poor comments on this ..Matt and his team are superb..it’s been unbelievable dangerous with Sheets today and Manchester has had it worse than Birmingham we had the same conversation here and it was touch and go ..happy to explain to anyone how bad it is …
So for
#GroundsWeek
I’ve decided to post all the Head Groundsman who went before me
@WarwickshireCCC
thanks for the dedication you guys put in so that we can still play at this great venue today .
So after a few days of watching 4 day cricket not just reading the scores it looks like 6/9 games are going into day 4 not bad in my opinion. With more cricket than ever this year I think Groundstaff have done an amazing job it’s just a shame
@MichaelVaughan
and
@DGoughie
don’t.
5 County teams bowled out for under 150 today !!!! It’s fine saying we need more 4 day cricket but we have to play on better pitches to prepare Test match standard players .. It’s not good for Bowlers or Batters .. Pitches need to be better .. RANT OVER ..
#OnOn
Really gutted about this comment but rather than moan or groan I’m giving
@markbutcher72
the opportunity to come and work
@WarwickshireCCC
on the lead up to the ashes 14 days out I’ll proved kit... see you on the 15 July oh and don’t forget we have 2x T20 games as well
First pitch of the season
@WarwickshireCCC
I started at
@leicsccc
in 1993 and there was 220 days between seasons we last played at Edgbaston 149 days ago
So the
@thehundred
is over
@Edgbaston
here’s all the pitches we used 3 for 4 games all very similar all
@SISPitches
atmosphere at all the games was Brilliant
First day of nets tomorrow another season approaches good luck to all the first class Groundsman out there on what’s another busy year ahead also good luck to ever grassroots Groundsman
@WarwickshireCCC
So
@WarwickshireCCC
everyone keeps saying flat pitch’s first 2 pitches 2023 second 2 2024 same readings same grass same rolling. only difference the Ball kookaburra,people don’t realise how a ball changes a pitch 2023 score (1480/55)2024 (1981/31)
@GeorgeDobell1
@Martycricket
@WarwickshireCCC
for
@VitalityBlast
t20 finals great effort by my team 4 major matches in 16 days I can’t thank them enough just the final to go all 3 pitch’s today are on the same strip
📸 The hard work continues for
@barnstonworth
and his staff! 💪
The outfield has been scarified, hollow cored, seeded in three directions, fertilised and topped off with 30 tones of sand.
🐻
#YouBears
Sometimes in sport the really good guys don’t get there moments but this shows how good a bloke and player
@chriswoakes
is amazing test performance….wish all players where this decent.🧐
So
@GeorgeDobell1
@englandcricket
might well lose this game the people who will be blamed are the players,coaches, Rob key, English pitches but the people who should look at themselves are The
@ECB_cricket
who after that epic final in 2019 they didn’t grow it they finished it