Lord's to lose one of its Tests?

[Richard]

There's a decent chance of rain anywhere in England, but no-one can ever predict the amount of rain we've had this year since June.

The water-table is absurdly high. No amount of drainage can change that.

 

[silentstriker]

There's a decent chance of rain anywhere in England, but no-one can ever predict the amount of rain we've had this year since June.

The water-table is absurdly high. No amount of drainage can change that.

No, but we might have had the full 90 overs (or as many as could be bowled if not for the crap over rate) if there was better drainage.

 

[Richard]

We might, but we might also never have a single interruption if we had rooves on every stadia. We might have had no places flooded-out the way so many have been the last few weeks if no-one ever built on floodplains.

Some things are realistic, some are not. Sadly, there are some things that are so irregular you don't plan for (such as crazy amounts of rain we've had in the last 2 months), and when they occur, you're ****ed.

And many things suffer far, far worse than those of us who lose some cricket.

 

[BoyBrumby]

And many things suffer far, far worse than those of us who lose some cricket.

I don't think anybody would dispute that, but what it has to do with Trent Bridge's drainage system is perhaps less immediately obvious.

 

[Richard]

It's loosely linked - the point is, it'd be rather more prudent to spend money on flood-defences than drainage at a cricket ground.

However, neither have ever been required, and nor did we have any reason to expect them to be, because before now we've never experienced rainfall and the knock-on effects that have been caused by the urbanisation like we have in June and July 2007.

 

[BoyBrumby]

It's loosely linked - the point is, it'd be rather more prudent to spend money on flood-defences than drainage at a cricket ground.

However, neither have ever been required, and nor did we have any reason to expect them to be, because before now we've never experienced rainfall and the knock-on effects that have been caused by the urbanisation like we have in June and July 2007.

I don't see how they are causally linked at all tho; no one's suggesting that any money destined for relief to the flood victims should be spent on Trent Bridge's drainage system. What was obvious tho is that Lords' system is light years ahead.

Not wishing to single Trent Bridge out (I like the ground very much, actually), but instances like this show that if Lords were to lose one of its tests other grounds really have to raise their games. It seriously pissed down last Friday but play still started early than yesterday, where Nottingham had been bright & dry.

 

[Richard]

Is Trent Bridge any different to anywhere else, though?

I presume Lord's is simply a fair bit ahead of everyone else in the drainage department. However, there's no reason the other grounds should have been up to said speed, because before now, there's never been any need to be.

BTW, the comment about floods didn't really matter to the drainage question, I just sort of mentioned it in passing really. As I said - the floods demonstrate the similar thing that the lack of drainage does - that Britain has never prepared for rain like we've had of late, because it's never before needed to.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Is Trent Bridge any different to anywhere else, though?

I presume Lord's is simply a fair bit ahead of everyone else in the drainage department. However, there's no reason the other grounds should have been up to said speed, because before now, there's never been any need to be.

That's my point exactly tho: Lords is ahead of everyone else. Not just in drainage either, it holds more people too. &, regardless of this being the wettest summer since Noah entered the arc-building world, Lords' system wasn't accidentally installed, was it? Foresightedness I'd call it.

The bigger point is really why take a test from Lords when the alternatives are (demonstrably) inferior?

 

[Richard]

So we should play every Test at Lord's?

(I don't agree with that BTW - saying so as it seems some do)

You have to draw the line somewhere - it's a case of where to do so. I'd be perfectly happy with either 1 or 2, personally. But I don't feel the drainage problems should really come into the equations because even by the standards of what's expected in summers in this country in future, this "summer" has been extreme. It's inconceivable that we'll have something this bad again for quite some time.