Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris embarrassed over abandoned match
Tuesday 1 September 2015 19:28, UK
Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris said swift action was needed after the county suffered the embarrassment of having a game abandoned earlier this month.
The Welsh side announced this week they had parted company with groundsman Keith Exton ahead of Monday's T20 games between England and Australia men's and women's team at Cardiff's Swalec Stadium.
Exton was put on gardening leave after Glamorgan's Royal London One-Day Cup clash with Hampshire was called off because the wicket was deemed too dangerous after Jimmy Adams was struck on the helmet from a ball by Michael Hogan.
Glamorgan were docked two points and fined £9,000 over the incident.
And Morrison conceded the abandoned game was "deeply disappointing for all of us".
He told Wales Online: "We needed to be decisive and that's why we commissioned an independent report to get an idea of the status of the square and that pitch in particular.
"We will be acting on those recommendations and we will quickly turn those things around. It (the pitch) is something people will focus on and talk about.
"We have successfully hosted international cricket here for a number of years. We hosted an Ashes Test match that saw four successful days last month and I am confident we will continue to do that."
Assistant groundsman Robin Saxton, who moved to Wales from Worcestershire two years ago, has been put in charge for the back-to-back T20 games.
Meanwhile, Glamorgan will host two England one-day internationals next summer with Sri Lanka visiting Wales on July 2 and Pakistan arriving on September 4.
