portable cricket pitches
Recently, the MCG created the world’s first portable cricket pitch and its technology.
The new system involves growing and caring for the cricket pitch off-site and “dropping” them into the middle of the ground at the start of the cricket season. With the cricket pitches removed for the winter months, the players and officials have a safer surface to play on the block on which the portable cricket pitches sit on is around 700 squared meters and is placed on a concrete rectangle. It is 28 meters in width, slightly narrower than a traditional wicket table (traditional wicket tables are 30 meters).
An example of this flexibility came in December 1999 when an AFL exhibition match between Carlton and Collingwood was staged just 24 hours after the conclusion of the Boxing Day Test.
The new system involves growing and caring for the cricket pitch off-site and “dropping” them into the middle of the ground at the start of the cricket season. With the cricket pitches removed for the winter months, the players and officials have a safer surface to play on the block on which the portable cricket pitches sit on is around 700 squared meters and is placed on a concrete rectangle. It is 28 meters in width, slightly narrower than a traditional wicket table (traditional wicket tables are 30 meters).
An example of this flexibility came in December 1999 when an AFL exhibition match between Carlton and Collingwood was staged just 24 hours after the conclusion of the Boxing Day Test.
The MCG ground staff removing the Cricket pitch for the next AFL season