Gluepot

Near-synonym: pastepot

Frequent showers from the dark clouds that swept in and out over the Sydney Football Stadium turned the surface into something of a gluepot.

"We want to bring back the glue-pot. We're going to bog up the wings, bog up the goal squares, have big pools of water on the 50-metre arcs, and the centre square is going to be one of those really squeaky, sticky glue-pots that is a little bit on the nose.

Bradman countered a ‘gluepot’ pitch by opening with his tailenders and went to the wicket at 2.50pm the following day when Australia were 97 for 5.