COVID-19 Grounds Maintenance in the Wider Game
26th March 2020
| Mallory Gray
Date of Update: 28/05/20
The Grounds Management Association (GMA, formerly the
Institute of Groundsmanship), working in partnership with the ECB, have
recently updated their advice to those managing cricket grounds during COVID-19
lockdown. These updates are in response to the current weather, where we are in
the growing season.
Key updates include reducing grass cut heights to help with
sward density, managing irrigation on squares and avoiding dry rolling, spiking
and deep scarification, all of which can cause problems on dry squares.
The advice is aimed at ground staff
managing grounds at all clubs, schools and local authorities and is available here.
Date of update April 1st
In addition here's a useful guidance for cricket groundskeepers which is an additional update from IOG/GMA, including some additional technical guidance click here
Date of Update March 26th
Please see the important ECB
statement below regarding working on cricket grounds (released 11am, March
26th). Per this advice,
groundskeepers are currently permitted to work on cricket grounds, however the
guidance contained in the statement MUST be adhered to.
Please ensure you read the
statement in full to appraise yourself of all safeguarding measures.
Stay safe,
everyone, and please continue to follow standing government guidelines and
ECB’s statement regarding the suspension of all other cricket activities.
Coronavirus and Grounds Maintenance in The wider game 25.03.20DN NP MB.docx
If
you have any specific queries on this guidance, please contact [email protected]