Hamilton

Sigh. Poor old Hamilton. New Zealand Cricket finally laid down the law last season and told the Hamilton City Council that international matches would not be staged there unless the crappy pitch was torn up and relaid. So the Council spent the winter tearing up the pitch and putting in a new one, which turned out to be even more crap than the old one. Its enough to make you want to smack a City Councillor's head against the wall. This is the fifth most read article in today's Sydney Morning Herald.