A cricket club has been forced to withdraw from the league after its pitch suffered criminal damage for the seventh time.
Westcroft Cricket Club, which has its main home ground at Crownhill Sports Ground in Milton Keynes, has had to pull out of the Northamptonshire Cricket League.
The damage occurred on 11 June when "every prepared playing surface was affected," said chief patron Azhar Zafar.
"This may appear to be a single act of vandalism," he said, but it was also "the latest incident in a sustained pattern of criminal damage... over the past two years".
Most incidents have happened at Crownhill which the club leases from Milton Keynes City Council.