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Dodds, a club cricketer before assuming groundsman duties at first Stamford Bridge CC in York and then for Durham at South Northumberland CC, admits there can be nerves when watching the first hour on the opening morning of a four-day Championship fixture.—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 9 July 2025 Training is over for the day and the ground is empty, apart from groundsman Paul Chaloner and his staff beavering away on the pitch.—Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025 Murphy currently looks up to one of the lead groundsmen at the club.—Asif Burhan, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024 In the grand cemeteries, where gardeners and groundsmen keep the avenues swept, the parts visitors favour are often far away from the starker, newer memorials, in odd corners or wooded patches where weeds have been allowed to rampage.—1843, 21 May 2020 The whole team - from groundsmen and fans to the chairman and first XI - was in disarray and disbelief after such a horrific tragedy.—SI.com, 19 June 2019 In 2008, around 20 groundsmen at Kolkata’s famous Eden Gardens stadium threatened to commit suicide over their demand for better salaries.—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 4 June 2019
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