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|Year=1850 | |Year=1850 | ||
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|Text=<p>"The art of preparing a pitch came surprisingly late in cricket's evolution. . . . | |Headline="Shoddy" Lords Opts for Mechanical Grass-Cutter | ||
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|Location=England, | |||
|Game=Cricket | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Text=<p>"The art of preparing a pitch came surprisingly late in cricket's evolution. . . . [The grounds were] shoddily cared for . . . . Attitudes were such that in the 1850s, when an agricultural grass-cutter was purchased, one of the more reactionary members of the MCC committee conscripted a group of navvies [unskilled workers] to destroy it. This instinctive Luddism suffered a reverse with the death of George Summer in 1870 and that year a heavy roller was at last employed on the notorious Lord's square."</p> | |||
|Sources=<p>Simon Rae, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">It's Not Cricket: A History of Skulduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating in the Noble Game</span> (Faber and Faber, 2001), page 215.</p> | |||
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| Text | "The art of preparing a pitch came surprisingly late in cricket's evolution. . . . [The grounds were] shoddily cared for . . . . Attitudes were such that in the 1850s, when an agricultural grass-cutter was purchased, one of the more reactionary members of the MCC committee conscripted a group of navvies [unskilled workers] to destroy it. This instinctive Luddism suffered a reverse with the death of George Summer in 1870 and that year a heavy roller was at last employed on the notorious Lord's square." |
| Sources | Simon Rae, It's Not Cricket: A History of Skulduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating in the Noble Game (Faber and Faber, 2001), page 215. |
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