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Cricket Pitches The Science Behind the Art of Pitch Making 1st Edition by Shyam Bahadur Singh, Devendra Narain Singh, Sanjay Kumar Ray, HB Nagaraj ISBN 9789819929122 9819929121

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Cricket Pitches: The Science Behind the Art of Pitch-Making―“An Integrated Pitch Management (I.P.M) Approach” 1st Edition Shyam Bahadur Singh Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Shyam Bahadur Singh, Devendra Narain Singh, Sanjay Kumar Ray, H. B. Nagaraj

ISBN(s): 9789819929122, 9789819929139, 9819929121, 981992913X

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 15.35 MB

Year: 2023

Language: English

SKU: EB-54689394 Category: Engineering - Environmental Tags: Devendra Narain Singh, H. B. Nagaraj, Sanjay Kumar Ray, Shyam Bahadur Singh

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Author: Shyam Bahadur Singh, Devendra Narain Singh, Sanjay Kumar Ray, HB Nagaraj

The book develops a practical understanding of the fundamental scientific principles and logic underlying the art of turf pitch preparation, measuring, analysing, and interpreting pitch surface behaviour. It’s an attempt to understand how the captains, players, coaches, curators, and groundsmen comprehend and analyse the cricket pitch behaviour (days before and during the matches) and whether the pitch behaviour can be standardised and quantified (through bench marking or forming a data-based management system (DBMS) of a pitch profile, pitch quality standards, a pitch behaviour analysis index (PBAI), or pitch behaviour forecasting (PBF) by examining or analysing its mineralogical, chemical, physical, or morphological compositions, weather variables, and different pitch preparation methods and techniques. Individual chapters in this book deal with clay mineralogy, the bench-marking of cricket pitch soils, pitch soil chemical properties, pitch soil water, pitch turf grass, pitch soil organic matter, integrated rolling management, soil structure, and compressibility. This is an effort to decipher the impact of each and every major and minor component of pitch soil, which controls the pitch behaviour either in large or small magnitudes but acts as a critical factor in defining and shaping the pitch behaviour as a whole. Several real-life examples, pitch interviews, scenarios, and case studies as felt and observed by the curator( first author) during the preparation of various international, national, and board matches or during the construction and renovation of new wickets have been included in each and every relevant chapter so as to analyse, interpret, comprehend, and justify the theoretical science with the existing practises involved in pitch construction, preparation, or judging the complex nature of pitch behaviour. Based on findings through the DBMS, PBAI, and PQS of cricket pitch profiles, various innovative and simple methods of analysing, comprehending, and forecasting pitch behaviour have been devised that will enable one to judge and comprehend the complex pitch behaviour in simple ways.

Cricket Pitches The Science Behind the Art of Pitch Making 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Introduction
1.1 Definition of a Turf Pitch (a Turf Pitch Behaviour as Desired by the BCCI/ICC for Different Formats of the Match)
1.2 Pitch Behaviour Controlling Factors
1.3 Various Controllable and Non-controllable Major and Minor Factors Controlling the Pitch Behaviour
1.3.1 The Important Controllable Factors in the Hands of the Curators that Affect Pitch Behaviour Are
1.4 Pitch Surface Characteristics
1.5 Desired Properties of Cricket Pitch Soils
1.6 Statement of Problems with the Cricket Pitches in India and Abroad
1.7 Aim and Objective of This Book Based on Problem Identified
1.8 The Book’s Design to Accomplish the Aims and Objectives of This Book
1.9 Significance of This Book
1.10 Summary
References/Bibliography
2 Cricket Pitch Soil Mineralogy: The DNA of Cricket Pitch Profile
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Classification of Clay Minerals Suitable for Cricket Pitch Soils
2.3 Cricket Pitches: Why Clay Minerals?
2.3.1 Mechanics of Swelling of Clay Soils Suitable for Cricket Pitches
2.4 How Does the Pitch Soil Clay Mineralogy Determine the Physical and Chemical Behavior?
2.5 Classification and Categorization of Cricket Pitches Based on the Predominant Clay Minerals and the Exchangeable Cations
2.6 Methods of Identification of Swell-Shrink Clays Suitable as Cricket Pitch Soils
2.6.1 A Method of Distinguishing Clay, Silt, and Sand by the Hand-Feel Method
2.6.2 How to Identify Silt and Clay in the Field?
2.7 Laboratory Identification Methods for Selection of Cricket Pitch Soils
2.7.1 Mineralogical methods
2.7.2 Direct Methods
2.7.3 Indirect Methods
2.8 Case Study 2
2.8.1 Conclusions of Case Study 2
2.9 Summary
References/Bibliography
3 “Cricket Pitch Soil Inventory: Benchmark Soils for Indian Cricket Pitches”
3.1 Introduction—Why Benchmarking of Continental and Subcontinental Pitches?
3.2 The Purpose of Generating a Benchmark for Cricket Pitch Soils in India
3.3 State-Wise Distribution of Benchmarked Soils in India
3.4 Analysis of Selected Top 50 Benchmarked Pitch Soil Samples (State Wise)
3.5 Critical Analysis of Selected Benchmarked Pitch Soil Samples
3.6 Summary
References/Bibliography
4 Effect of Soil Chemical Properties on Cricket Pitch Behaviour
4.1 Introduction
4.2 What is Soil pH?
4.2.1 Acid Soils
4.2.2 Classification of Soil Acidity
4.3 Neutral to Alkaline Soils
4.4 Saline and Sodic Soils
4.4.1 Saline Soils
4.4.2 Saline-Sodic Soils
4.4.3 Soil Group Identification Based on ESP and ECe Values
4.5 What Controls the Soil pH?
4.6 Measuring Soil pH
4.7 Measuring Salinity and Alkalinity
4.8 Chemical Analysis and Interpretation for Some of India’s Most Important Cricket Pitch Soils
4.9 The Mechanism Through Which the Cricket Pitch Soil pH Affects the Pitch Behaviour at Different pH Ranges is as Follows
4.10 Management and Reclamation of Problematic Cricket Pitch Soils
4.11 Different Pitch Preparation Methods and Techniques Based on the Different pH Levels
4.12 Cricket Pitch Soil Behaviour Based on the Predominant pH Range and Exchangeable Cations
4.13 Classification of Cricket Pitch Soils Based on the pH Range and Predominant Exchangeable Cations of Subcontinental and Continental Pitches
4.14 Summary
References/Bibliography
5 Cricket Pitch Soil Water—An Elixir for Pitch Behaviour
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Types of Soil Moisture Available Within a Pitch Profile
5.3 Factors Affecting the Amount of Plant-Available Soil Moisture
5.3.1 Energy Concepts in Soil-Water Systems
5.3.2 Factors Affecting Gravitational Water
5.3.3 Factors Affecting Capillary Water
5.3.4 Factors Affecting Hygroscopic Water
5.4 Soil-Water Relationships
5.5 Type of Water Movement in Soil
5.6 Soil-Water Movement in Cricket Pitch Profile
5.7 Pitch Available Water Capacity/Content (PAWC)
5.8 The Science Behind the Art of Pitch Soil Moisture Retention, Movement, and Its Loss
5.9 Process of Wetting and Drying a Cricket Pitch Profile During Pitch Preparation
5.10 Relationship Between Soil Moisture and Pitch Behaviour
5.11 Role of Available Soil Moisture Within the Pitch Profile During Pitch Preparation
5.12 Summary
References/Bibilography
6 Cricket Pitch Grass: The Science Behind the Art of Turf Pitch Making
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Classification of Turf Grass
6.3 Functions of Grass in Turf Cricket Pitches
6.3.1 Grass as a Pumping System for Drying Pitches
6.3.2 Benefits of Turf Grass in Cricket Pitches
6.4 Summary
References
7 Cricket Pitch Soil Organic Matter: “Importance and Role of Pitch Soil Organic Matter (SOM) in Controlling the Nature and Behaviour of Turf Wickets”
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Importance of Soil Organic Matter (SOM) in Controlling the Pitch Behaviour
7.3 Important Distinct Characteristics of Soil Organic Matter (SOM)
7.4 Effect of SOM on Soil Properties
7.5 Summary
References
8 Cricket Pitch Soil Rolling Management—Integrated Rolling Management (IRM)
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Science Behind the Art of Cricket Pitches Profile Compression
8.2.1 Consolidation of a Cricket Pitch Soil
8.2.2 Consolidation and Soil Shrinkage
8.2.3 Consolidation Process
8.3 Time Lag During Compression of Clay
8.4 Factors Affecting the Pitch Profile Compression
8.4.1 Soil-Water Content
8.4.2 Type of Soil (Structure, Texture, Physical, Chemical, Mineralogy, etc.)
8.4.3 Cricket Pitch Soil Structure and Compressibility of Turf Pitches
8.4.4 Compactive Effort
8.4.5 Method of Compaction (Rolling Techniques and Schedules)
8.4.6 Rollers Do Not Dry the Pitches
8.5 Cricket Pitch Soil Compression Through Live Case Studies (Test/ODI/T-20 Matches Coordinated and Supervised by the Author as a Curator)
8.6 Summary
References
9 Cricket Pitch Behavioural Analysis Index (PBAI) and Pitch Behaviour Forecasting (PBF) Methods: Traditional and Conventional Methods vs. Scientific Methods Based on Recent Research and Developments
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Different Methods of Analysing, Interpreting, and Predicting Pitch Behaviour
9.2.1 Different Extreme Scenarios of Pitch Behaviour
9.2.2 Conclusions and Interpretation of Clegg Hammer Readings
9.3 Pitch Behaviour Analysis by Interaction with Experts
9.4 Cricket Pitch Behaviour Analysis Through the Measurement of Cracking or Crumbling Patterns
9.4.1 Benefits of Cracking and Crumbling (Wear and Tear) of the Pitch Surface
9.4.2 Mechanism of Shrinkage and Crack Formation
9.4.3 Classification of Cracks in the Cricket Pitch Soil
9.4.4 Measurement of Cracks
9.4.5 Wetting and Drying Cycles of Cricket Pitches
9.5 Case Study
9.6 Needs Further Clarification or Research
9.7 Conclusions
9.8 How to Analyse the Pitch Behaviour of Subcontinental and Continental Pitches
9.8.1 Pitches in South Africa
9.8.2 Pitches in Zimbabwe
9.8.3 Pitches in England and Wales
9.8.4 Pitches in New Zealand
9.8.5 Pitches in India and the Subcontinent
9.8.6 Pitches in Pakistan
9.8.7 Pitches in Bangladesh
9.8.8 Pitches in Sri Lanka
9.8.9 Pitches in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
9.8.10 Pitches in the West Indies
9.9 Cricket Pitch Behavioural Analysis Through the Database Management System (DBMS) of Pitch Profile
9.10 Classification of Cricket Pitches Based on the Database Management System of a Pitch Profile, the Pitch Behavior Analysis Index (PBAI)
9.11 Categorisation of Cricket Pitches Based on DBMS, Pitch Behaviour Analysis Index (PBAI) / Pitch Behaviour Forecasting (PBF) Methods
9.12 Conclusions: Integrated Pitch Management (IPM)
References/Bibliography