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Can cricket fix ailing park?
League developing region's first formal facility for sport
By Lauren Stanforth
Published 11:58 p.m., Sunday, August 12, 2012

SCHENECTADY — Grout Park is choked with crab grass. Its basketball backboards are rusted; the hoops are gone.

But for the newly formed Schenectady Premier Cricket League, the park is perfect.

Its recent dedication is a giant step toward developing the first formal cricket facility in the Capital Region.

The new league used some donated stone dust and clay to complete work on the wicket.

The hard surface on which the cricket ball is bounced is a central part of the sport invented in England. Cricket is popular today in the United Kingdom and in the former British Empire, including India, Pakistan, the Caribbean and Guyana, where many of Schenectady's residents trace their heritage.

Premier Cricket comes out of the merger of two of Schenectady's three cricket clubs, the Tri-City Cricket Club and one run by the Guyanese American Association, which was already playing at the park.....................>>>>..................>>>>...................Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Can-cricket-fix-ailing-park-3783216.php#ixzz23QIum4nj

not a bit impressed......too classey for this area......what do ya think is going to happen to all their work????

just like everything else......TRASHED