Vandals damage wicket
PA Aucklanc Vandals caused thousands of dollars worth of damagf to the main wicket at Walter Massey Park, Mangere on Wednesday night. Steel stakes from a' fence surrounding the wicket were ripped out and used to cul big chunks out of the field. The vandals inscribed “So much for cricket” into the turf at one end of the’wicket.
id The park caretaker and) Is groundsman, Mr Keith i ;e Greenall, said yesterday:' 1- “It’s a crying shame' | e, there’s eight years of workj and thousands of dollars! :e gone down the drain jusd e like that.” ■ j it He said that the wicked was one of the best in! ° Auckland and used by hun-. dreds of cricketers every I seasom
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Press, 28 March 1980, Page 26
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