"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.

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 ...

Batsmen who have played on matting pitches develop the ability to play on the back-foot so essential for higher class of cricket.

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 ...

Lack of a turf wicket in this coastal city the nearest turf wicket is at Manipal, some 60 km from here will mean that the senior Zimbabwean cricket team will play on matting when they arrive to ...

The cricket mat, which can be placed on concrete, will allow Myanmar's fledgling cricketers to play for up to 10 months of the year. Until the MCF secures its own ground, a likely place for the mat is ...

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.

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 ...

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.

You must allow them to go and play their normal cricket, to play with aggression. The advantages are greater to develop batsmen than bowlers on matting." ...

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