PREPARING council cricket pitches has always cost a lot of time and money, so why do we see the idiots ride their bikes, mothers (and fathers) push prams etc, all over the pitches at Bournemouth’s Kings Park?

There is plenty of room to walk or play without going onto the playing area and I have also seen people cutting across the outer areas during a match.

Heaven help them if they were struck by the ball.

PETER WOODLEY, address supplied