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My Local Team and T20 Cricket

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
So, the situation of my local club has become front page news this week. We're under the jurisdiction of Boroondara Council, and as of this year we've been banned from playing T20 at our ground.

Twenty20 cricket banned from Melbourne parks | Herald Sun

To put some background to the situation, our ground borders a main road, which has a four metre high fence protecting it, and a quieter road which has a three metre fence protecting it, and a number of cars park in this street. When the fences were put up, they were both supposed to be four metres, and now when we play on the side pitch near the quiet road it can get a fair few balls on the road (reckon on average four a day).

Unfortunately for us, the council's risk assessor comes along to one game a year, and happened to come along to watch us in a One Day game where we played Brad Hodge on that side pitch near the road, and he smashed us everywhere and was targetting the small boundary, and hence a fair few balls went on the road. The council came back to us after that and told us that we're not able to play T20s at our home ground.

Basically, any ideas (esp. with a few legal people around here) on what we can/could do to try and help our situation and get back onto the home ground. One of the biggest problems is not the parked cars but cars driving past.
 

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Article reads like it's not specific to your ground, so I guess building a taller fence wouldn't work, even if it were financially viable.

Some kind of petition would maybe be the way to go, having a face like Warne (seemingly) onboard is a good starting point.
 

Redbacks

International Captain
moral outrage is usually a good weapon.

Wrapping us up in cotton wool as obesity rates rise around Australia...

It's Un-Australian.
 

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
The great Lord Denning must be turning over in his grave.

Miller v Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In summertime village cricket is the delight of everyone. Nearly every village has its own cricket field where the young men play and the old men watch. In the village of Lintz in County Durham they have their own ground, where they have played these last 70 years. They tend it well. The wicket area is well rolled and mown. The outfield is kept short. It has a good club house for the players and seats for the onlookers. The village team play there on Saturdays and Sundays. They belong to a league, competing with the neighbouring villages. On other evenings after work they practise while the light lasts. Yet now after these 70 years a judge of the High Court has ordered that they must not play there any more. He has issued an injunction to stop them. He has done it at the instance of a newcomer who is no lover of cricket. This newcomer has built, or has had built for him, a house on the edge of the cricket ground which four years ago was a field where cattle grazed. The animals did not mind the cricket. But now this adjoining field has been turned into a housing estate. The newcomer bought one of the houses on the edge of the cricket ground. No doubt the open space was a selling point. Now he complains that when a batsman hits a six the ball has been known to land in his garden or on or near his house. His wife has got so upset about it that they always go out at week-ends. They do not go into the garden when cricket is being played. They say that this is intolerable. So they asked the judge to stop the cricket being played. And the judge, much against his will, has felt that he must order the cricket to be stopped: with the consequence, I suppose, that the Lintz Cricket Club will disappear. The cricket ground will be turned to some other use. I expect for more houses or a factory. The young men will turn to other things instead of cricket. The whole village will be much the poorer. And all this because of a newcomer who has just bought a house there next to the cricket ground.
 

Noble One

International Vice-Captain
I recall attending one of your games 3-4 years ago (I believe it was the season Cameron Smith played) and Matt Wade hitting half a dozen deliveries into the carpark or across the road. Must be frustrating that it has been made an issue this year.
 

BoyBrumby

Englishman
I recall attending one of your games 3-4 years ago (I believe it was the season Cameron Smith played) and Matt Wade hitting half a dozen deliveries into the carpark or across the road. Must be frustrating that it has been made an issue this year.
Cam Smith the Kangaroo rake? Cool. :cool:
 

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
Yeah, Cameron Smith played as a guest player. As a cricketer, makes a very good league player. But he really did help the bowlers' touch rugby side in the warm up.

Very frustrating although that day I think we were playing on that side pitch, which was very silly for a T20 really. Played the next few years on the other side, where the houses came in for a bit of tap.

They generally like to leave the middle pitches for the 2 day games as they are the best ones, and so we don't usually see them till after Christmas when the T20s are over and done with. :(
 
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Noble One

International Vice-Captain
It's a shame as the Camberwell ground is one of the better viewing grounds in the district. Good spots up on the hill to watch.

Where have you been playing your Twenty20 games? I noticed a leaflet when grabbing my pizza a couple weeks back that you are playing in North Balwyn. Have Camberwell been rotating grounds?
 

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
They let our 3rds and 4ths play at our ground in T20 when we had full rounds of it, so the 1sts and 2nds would play away. Another ridiculous part of it though, there's nothing stopping guys in the 3rds and 4ths hitting bombs either - yeah, the batsmen may not be as good, but neither will the bowling!

Only have four games, two on Sundays (full rounds) and two on weeknights (1sts only), so just had to find another venue for that one at Nth Balwyn.
 

ganeshran

International Debutant
The cricket stadium in Bangalore is situated in a busy area with lots of traffic on adjacent roads. The solution they use is to have very high nets installed. Its a one time cost and not that expensive to maintain either
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
I can only presume that Vic's team came to the conclusion that the cost was a bit too much, not being a professional club and all. 8-)
 

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
Well, as I said, we were supposed to get them up to 4m high, as they were on the design, but the fence where most of the offending balls go over was only built to 3m.

Also, rather annoyingly, we're having big issues with the council on other stuff while they are building a $300,000 public toilet next to the ground. Makes the mind boggle.
 

Nate

You'll Never Walk Alone
Hit lots of sixes in the other forms, and get banned from playing altogether.







wait
 

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Has anyone ever thought that maybe the council are just traditionalists and despise the 20 over game? :ph34r:
 

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