Perfect pitches for historic matches | Letters

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...