Preparing the Oval pitch for the 1932 season

 Hopefully this is the right place for this...

An article on the Oval's groundsman "Bosser" Martin, the man disappointed that England didn't try foi 1000 runs in the 1938 Test (they boringly declared on 903-7). Scroll down and there's a pic of the pitch being prepared for the 1932 season - is that a Silens Messor I see? 

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