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Perfect pitches for historic matches | Cricket

Perfect pitches for historic matches | Cricket

Alex Preston, in his travel feature on Corfu (21 February), writes about playing with the Lord’s Taverners on “the only cricket pitch in the world I know that’s set within a Unesco world heritage site”. Wonderful though the cricket ground in Corfu undoubtedly is, I am surprised that Preston’s fellow Taverner, Andy Caddick of Somerset and England, didn’t let him know that Bath also enjoys a cricket pitch within a Unesco world heritage site (and possibly two if you include the Rec), while the ground at Galle, Sri Lanka, where Caddick played a Test in 2001, adjacent to the Fort, is mighty close.
David Dudding
London

Greenwich Park is also a Unesco world heritage site and has a cricket field in the south-west corner.
Alan Burkitt-Gray
London

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