groundsmen

Many non-teaching personnel such as groundsmen and administrative staff were redeployed to ensure equal distribution throughout the province.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

It is contemplated that we have a group of men to be known as "groundsmen" who will be agents necessary to insure the success of this plan.

Board of Visitors minutes 1948

This all goes to show to what lengths groundsmen can get in the preparation of present-day wickets.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

Stuart Clark: Having levelled the series, it's important that the MCG and SCG groundsmen do not serve up 'a road or two' and help England to get Graeme Swann into the game

Aussie cricket commentators have been a breath of fresh air on air | Rob Bagchi 2011

Meulensteen jokes that "all of us – staff, coaches, masseurs, groundsmen etc – put on our balaclavas and went over to Rooney's home to explain to him that going to City was not done."

Sir Alex Ferguson really thought Wayne Rooney was defecting to City 2011

About now, England should be having a quiet word in the ear of the groundsmen at the four Test grounds—Lord's, Trent Bridge, Edgbaston and The Oval—and asking them for lively tracks.

Can England Rain on India's Parade? Richard Lord 2011

In 2001 the grass at Wimbledon was changed to 100% perennial rye, and the groundsmen started using a harder and denser soil.

Scratching the Surfaces 2010

Australia's groundsmen are normally fiercely independent but attitudes might have changed slightly after The Oval groundsman, Bill Gordon, made no secret in 2009 of his delight about a dry, dusty surface on which England won the Ashes and Swann took eight wickets.

The Ashes 2010: Spicy pitch will not hinder England, says Andy Flower 2010

She and one of the groundsmen had determined the best next location when Louis found her.

The Year of Living Scandalously Julia London 2010

The short-term answer: play the FA Cup final and England's warm-up match against Mexico a few miles away at the Emirates, where the groundsmen seem to have no trouble producing a flawless surface.

Riot of goals makes compelling case for the defence 2010