"We played most of our cricket at school on matting wickets. It is easier to switch over from matting to turf. There are two sides to playing on matting.

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Faced with an unprecedented battery of googly bowlers on an unfamiliar matting wicket, the English side faced their first ever defeat in a First-Class match in South Africa, against the incredible ...

The Zimbabwean side has consented to play the match for charity cause here. Heath Streak, bowling coach of Zimbabwe team participating in the Cricket World Cup 2011 currently underway in the sub ...

As a boy growing up in Hyderabad, cricket wasn’t just a game — it was the rhythm of life. I remember the dusty matting wickets of the Deccan Plateau, the chalk-drawn stumps on compound walls. I bowled ...

This was published 15 years ago. Tourists dealt with pitches of matting, borrowed boots, heat, dust - and then dysentery and hepatitis struck Fifty years ago the first Australian tour to Pakistan ...

In the absence of artificial turfs at both school and nearby areas, Balwinder found a ‘jugaad’ in a cricket mat, on which he made Manisha practice her flicks and scoops.

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Blaming the mediocre standard of batsmen in school cricket today partly to the preparation of substandard pitches, Aravinda de Silva, the former Sri Lanka batsman, is of the opinion that playing ...

Blaming the mediocre standard of batsmen in school cricket today partly to the preparation of substandard pitches, Aravinda de Silva, the former Sri Lanka batsman, is of the opinion that playing ...