An interesting article by Mike Jiggens on the Turf and Rec web site on the challenges of developing cricket fields in Brampton..
“Brampton’s cricket user groups began to press the city with a number of demands for its fields.

“As we tried educating the people, there was quite a bit of pushback from the user groups and at times they were questioning if we knew what we were actually doing out there,” Macklin said.

The groups’ demands posed a number of maintenance challenges for the city’s parks department, the most notable of which was a request to mow the playing surfaces at a half-inch height.

“This wasn’t just on our irrigated fields, but on our non-irrigated fields as well.”

Previously, the city’s cricket fields were mowed at one inch for irrigated playing surfaces and two inches on fields without irrigation.

“Generally, this was a good height to produce healthy turf,”
Full article