Sloping pitches

Coldharbour is a lovely village in Surrey with a picturesque cricket ground near the top of Leith Hill. The current ground is slightly undulating tho' mostly quite flat; however back in the day, before WW2, the history of the club explains how the ground was on a separate plot, downhill nearer the village pub. On one side of the old ground, the terrain dropped so steeply to one side of the square that the batting side had to use callers: these people stationed themselves on the boundary on that side and shouted advice to their colleagues who were batting as to whether they should keep running or stay in their ground.