Has your club edged its artificial pitch?

This is the ideal time to edge artificial pitches as the surrounding ground is soft.

• Required equipment, builders line 30M, two pegs to hold line, good quality spade with square head , edging tool to give a clean cut, large bucket or wheelbarrow and a brush.
• Pick a fine dry day to do the work, usually three people for two hours

• Set up line 15 mm into the mat from edge, cut straight edge carefully along line, run spade under growth into straight edge and lift away from mat. 
• Brush loose clay away then walk the edge back down to the mat leaving a neat sloped edge between mat and surrounding ground or square so that a ball runs smoothly.
• The grass will have re-established long before the season commences.
• Other work like cleaning should be left closer to the  start of cricket.
• No need to edge either end of mat.
• Both ends should be left undisturbed unless it is necessary to tighten/ stretch the mat

If you need more information or help, please contact either Cricket Leinster Grounds Committee chair, Collie Byrne (cpmbyrne@gmail.com) or Cricket Leinster's Director of Cricket Ops, Simon Dyke (simon.dyke@cricketleinster.ie)