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Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
From what I can see green wickets have always been rare in test cricket in comparison to dry ones. Seems to have been a thing for a long time amongst curators to make pitches flatter or drier for the highest class matches, and obviously Asia and the West Indies weren't turning out many greentops.Was there any specific time period when wickets with grass were more common?
If we discount the tests, then from what I've read the late fifties to mid sixties in England, just after covered pitches became the norm. Groundsmen cut the pitch, but with another match going on next to it (County cricket was still six days a week at this point) they sometimes didn't/couldn't water or roll it, certainly not sufficiently. So you ended up with wickets that were might be green (and damp if the weather was) on top (but also often bare and dusty) and very doubtfully held together underneath, which were often very spiteful. Seam bowlers like like Jack Flavell, who was not extraordinarily fast or tall, were very difficult to face on such pitches.
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