By Adam Hopkins

CLUB cricket up and down the UK is generally played over two innings, one for each side. Last Saturday this was the case as always at Goresbrook in the Essex League but, rather bizarrely, the game was also played on two pitches, one for each side… In their fourth-tier clash with Harlow, 11 overs into their run chase, chasing 188, Goresbrook realised they were batting on a different pitch to their opposition after the umpires put the stumps back in a different track after the tea break. “The umpires came out after tea and put the stumps back in the gr...