From the NY Times:The police have also had to make other adaptations to cricket to fit New York conditions. For example, a strip of rolled and immaculately trimmed grass is normally used as the playing surface on which a ball bounces before it is struck by a batsman. But that strip is expensive and rare in this country. So the league’s matches, played at Spring Creek Park in Brooklyn and Kissena Park in Queens, use a substitute: a heavy, fibrous mat that is staked to the ground before a game.
You mean the Parks Department isn't doing its job? I'm shocked...
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"...a strip of rolled and immaculately trimmed grass is normally used...But that strip is expensive and rare in this country."
We should demand that the Parks Dept import this product from wherever in the world it is and spare no expense in doing it.
So then why do we have cricket fields in Parks?
Cricket Fields
I notice it doesn't explain that you have to bring your own mat. I guess there are no "pickup" games of cricket, like Parks has been advocating these past few years.
Why doesn't Parks pay for it? Because the people who play it are immigrants. Now if it were used by tourists in Central or Bryant Parks, it would be top of the line.
"a strip of rolled and immaculately trimmed grass is normally used as the playing surface on which a ball bounces before it is struck by a batsman. But that strip is expensive and rare in this country."
The Parks Dept can't give them a strip of astroturf?
No, if you roll it up, all the rubber pellets fall out.
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