Perfect pitches for historic matches | Letters

2026-02-27 - 17:33

David Dudding and Alan Burkitt-Gray bowl up some cricket grounds within Unesco world heritage sites 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 Continue reading...