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2nd November 2026

Fixture Demand And Pitch Pressures

Game schedules at saturation point

The complexities of maintaining the cricket pitches at Lord’s was recently well explained in a Telegraph news article by Will Macpherson, deputy cricket correspondent, in his piece Radical plan to end the Lord’s pitch problem . The article explains the reasons why the MCC have decided on a new plan to improve the pitches at Lord’s following some recent concerns over their quality and performance.Having personally known Karl McDermott, the Lord’s head groundsman, for many years, the fault of the…

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