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INS & OUTS
Spring 2019
I’ve heard of guarding the short boundary,
but this is ridiculous ..
The Cambridgeshire Branch of the ECB Association of Cricket Officials
www.the-ccusa.co.uk
Cambridgeshire Cricket
Umpires & Scorers Association
LEAGUES & CUP MATCHES
East Anglian Premier League
£60 per match
£10 pitch inspection
East Anglian Premier League T20
£30 per match
£10 pitch inspection
Whiting League
£40 per match or £60 if alone
£10 pitch inspection
Half if no play takes place
Full if no play after 3.45pm (3.15pm in
September) and Umpires still present
Scorers £30 if only one present
Whiting League T20 Cup
£25 per match or £50 if alone
CCA Senior League & Invitation Cup
£30 per match or £40 if alone
£15 if no play takes place
CCA Junior League & Junior Cup
£27 per match or £35 if alone
£15 if no play takes place
CCA Walker T20 Cup
& CCA Lower Junior T20 Cup
£15 per match or £30 if alone
National Village KO
National Club KO & Club T20 KO
£30 per match + 30p a mile - all rounds.
CCUSA APPOINTMENTS QUERIES
UNIVERSITY MATCHES
Cambridge MCCU
Chris Scott 07917 535860
BUCS Premier A Cup £50 per match
Others £35 per match
All paid at the end of the season
Cambridge University
(all teams inc women)
Helen Hyde 07970 943713
£35 per match, paid at the end of the season
Cambridge University T20
(all teams inc women)
£20 per match, paid at the end of the season
Anglia Ruskin University
Nadege Talva 07549 681868
£35 per match, paid by BACS
- contact Nadege and leave your bank details
SCHOOLS MATCHES
The Perse School
Sean Park 07746 717326
The Leys School
Richard Kaufman 07932 984883
King’s School, Ely
Alex Meddle 07799 502868
Wisbech Grammar School
Neil Taylor 07761 866572
£35 per match if the match starts before 1.00
£30 per match if the match starts 1.00 or later
£20 per match if T20
All paid at the end of the season
HEAD COACH
James Williams 07976 450076
CYC AGE GROUP MANAGER
Kevin Scully 07961 630878
COUNTY BOYS MATCHES
U10 Wendy Holt 07522 100195
Alex Stafford 07900 263700
Jamie Seabrook 07795 230745
£20 per match
U11 Ed Welch 07825 210021
Chris Germon 07949 311988
John Phelps 07855 251215
£20 per match
U12 Sarah Wynne-Jones 07739 176504
Martin Heginbotham 07765 330921
Sam Rippington 07734 185614
£35 per match
U13 Ian Osbourne 07717 661980
Kevin Scully 07961 630878
Will Phelps 07468 867437
£35 per match
U14 Barbara Symonds 07760 885028
Matt Slack 07918 133170
Anthony Palmer 07875 641403
£35 per match
U15 Allan Bramley 07977 922046
Anthony Palmer 07875 641403
Sean Park 07746 717326
£35 per match
U17 Simon Seabrook 07920 238949
James Williams 07976 450976
John Phelps 07855 251215
Ravi Mahendra 07885 783588
ECB Cup £30 per match + 30p a mile ECB Champ £40 per day + 30p a mile
Others £35 per match.
ECB U15 & U17 one day cup matches are with
white balls and black sightscreens so Umpires
must wear dark clothing. All payments are on
the day bar ECB U17, where you claim back
online through www.whostheumpire.com.
CYC SECRETARY
Helen Hyde 07970 943713
CYC GIRLS CO-ORDINATOR
Pete Laughlin 07850 702498
COUNTY GIRLS MATCHES
U11 George Rolls 07825 666195
Girls Michael Johnston 07778 354240
Matt Morley 07767 660022
£25 per match
U13 Steve Welham 07825 978556
Girls Matt Morley 07767 660022
Steve Taylor 07736 678911
£30 per match
U15 Simon James 07710 300729
Girls Dan Tinkler 07743 692139
Pete Laughlin 07850 702498
£30 per match
U17 Clara Cheng 07902 107987
Girls Pete Laughlin 07850 702498
Dan Tinkler 07743 692139
£30 per match
COUNTY SENIORS MATCHES
CCC Keith Coburn 07752 241488
James Williams 07976 450076
£50 per day
Academy Keith Coburn 07752 241488
& U25 Dan Heath 07391 662503
£40 per day
Over Richard Young 07753 147953
50s Nigel Gadsby 07970 182529
£30 per match
Over Pat Ringham 07582 488199
60s 1st XI: Nick Andrews 07742 022477
2nd
XI: Graham Sainsbury 07546 596868
£30 per match
County Raj Ghelani 07976 412189
Women Phil Lewis 07780 656765
£30 per match
CCUSA EMAIL/VOICEMAIL CONTACT
Bushy 01638 743883
CCUSA MOBILE/TEXT CONTACT
Keith Coburn 07752 241488
N.B. Do NOT email or leave a message as Keith
is away a lot and does not read them very
frequently. A text to Keith is usually best.
2019 LAW CHANGES
We call all beamers regardless of pace, but only
warn the dangerous ones. Then, it is first and
final. This applies whenever there is not a
regulation over-riding it; you must make sure
you know what is in effect for that particular
game and make sure your colleague agrees.
WHITING REG CHANGES
Call all beamers, but only warn the dangerous
ones; but the procedure of first warning, final
warning and off remains the same as last year.
CCA REG CHANGES
The 30 yard fielding circle will be in all cups, all
rounds as well as CCA Senior 1-2-3. Four in the
ring at all times, but no powerplays.
The full beamer law will apply as above.
THE WAIST
Latest guideline is “the normal waistband of a
person wearing normal trousers whilst stood
upright at the crease”.
THE CARTOONS
Back in the day, when newspapers cared about
cricket, a man called Rex Audley produced a
series of cartoons in The Telegraph called “The
Umpire Strikes Back”, a reference to the 1980
Star Wars movie. I am very happy to reproduce
some of his works, kindly donated by David
Wedgwood.
WHITING LEAGUE CHANGES
The 2019 season will feature two divisions of ten
teams and one of nine. Who goes up or down
will depend on the EAPL situation, but the
general principle is two up and two down
between Divisions One and Two; two up and
two down between Divisions Two and Three;
and two down from Division 3 (to the relevant
feeder league) and one promoted each from CCA
1 and Hunts 1 as per usual.
Next season will feature three up into Division
Three (or only one down and two up) to make it
ten teams in the 2020 season.
If a team does not provide a competent Scorer,
the other Scorer gets £40 from the Captain of the
offending team. Please make sure they get paid
in a reasonable time; and if they do not, report it
to Chris Abbott. Also make sure you put “NO
SCORER” in the box provided for Scorers Name
on the report card.
LAW 42 & DISCIPLINE
The reporting process is completely unchanged
from last year. There were only a handful of
cases, and mostly the clubs policed it
themselves. The following is a procedural note
in place for CCA and Whiting, which explains
existing policy and just makes things a bit
clearer:
“All Level One offences will be recorded. Two
Level One offences in a season will result in a
two match ban. In all Level Two offences, the
club will be instructed to take action, and the
player banned for two matches. Failure of the
club to take appropriate action will result in a
Disciplinary Hearing, when the ban will be
increased to whatever the Disciplinary
Committee deem suitable. More serious
offences will result in an automatic Disciplinary
Hearing.”
SCORERS
We ran a scoring course for five people back in
November, of which everyone passed.
Helen Hyde has now taken over full
responsibility for the Scorers’ section, ably
assisted by her trained Co-Tutor Beryl Barratt.
Helen is now certified to observe and assess
Scorers right the way up to Stage III (Minor
Counties). We have one person undertaking the
Stage III process this summer.
We are running a Computerised Scoring course
after the season, contact Helen for details.
During the season, both Helen and Linda Hobbs
can provide computerised scoring mentoring.
We have some opportunities to score games at
Fenner’s if anyone would like the experience.
Also, several county youth teams are looking for
regular scorers if you would like some Sunday
games. Contact Helen for more details.
EDUCATION
We ran a Stage I Umpires course for 10 people
and a Stage II Umpires course for 12 people,
some of whom are going through the
accreditation process this summer. We also have
three people undertaking the Stage III process.
All our courses are now online, and they are all
announced on the website well in advance along
with links to register.
At the behest of the Region, via our new
Chairman, we tried to run an experimental
Young Officials programme of two half-term
intro courses, similar to the courses we used to
run for the Cambs Board at Histon, but only two
kids wanted to come. Things will be different
next year, as we have decided it will be a Board
function to arrange them as a Board event.
APPOINTMENTS
If you can remember back that far, last year was
a season that started in the main late for everyone
owing to the unusually wet Spring. We did all
eventually get started and things progressed well
with only one weekend of poor availability.
We then went from the wettest start to a season
to the hottest six weeks in years. The first week
of the Whiting League season was rearranged to
an additional week at the end, resulting in the top
four in Division 1 remarkably playing each other,
and all four in with a chance of lifting the title.
This season, with the introduction of Whiting
Division 3, we are undoubtedly going to struggle
to cover all fourteen matches with two umpires.
The positive result of this change is there will
only be League fixtures during May to August.
Finally I would like to mention to long serving
Members who have finally decided to hang up
their coats for good, namely Mike Law, a former
Chairman and Les Cooke, for a long time our
Hon. Auditor. I would personally like to thank
both of them for their long service to umpiring,
and their dedication to this Association.
Keith Coburn
DANGEROUS BEAMERS
For guidance, the National Panel view of what is
a “dangerous” delivery was “if it hit, or would
have hit, or was close to hitting the batsmen; or
the batsman takes avoiding action”, regardless of
the pace of the delivery. Take into account the
relative skill of the striker and any repetition as
per the new Law.
ANNUAL DINNER
We had a very well attended dinner last October,
but some members feel it is a time for a change,
so Ben and Frank have decided it is time for the
CCUSA to return to Girton Golf Club as the new
slip road off the A14 means it is a lot easier to
get to from the Goddy direction. The cost will
still be £25 for a three course meal plus coffee,
and it will be on Friday October 11th
at 7.00 pm
for a 7.30 pm sit down.
FROM THE OLD CHAIRMAN
I had the honour of being your Chairman for the
last 4 years and am pleased that in that time we
finally managed to get some of our umpires on
the EAPL panel where they served with
distinction and are a credit to our Association.
Hopefully many more will now be able to follow
on. It was also an historic time for the CCUSA
as we passed out 50th
Anniversary and many
thanks to David Wedgwood for his efforts.
At our last AGM I decided to step down as Chair
(to concentrate on improving my umpiring skills,
as many will be pleased to hear) and we
welcome Pete Laughlin as our new Chair with
Chris Wilson as Vice Chair. Between them they
have many years’ experience in officiating,
coaching, training and groundsmanship, with the
latter usually very early in the morning and the
opposite end of the county to where they are
officiating. In this last year we were particularly
pleased to bring on board the experience of Rob
Benson as our Welfare Officer, a role that is
gaining increasing importance following the
disturbing rise in child welfare issues in other
sports. We cannot let cricket be mired in the
same way. I am sure you join me in wishing
them all well in their new roles.
Thanks to all you members of the Association
for their support and friendship and I look
forward to meeting old friends and new in the
coming season
Alan Lamb
PERFORMANCE
ECB ACO have decided to change the name of
Performance Officer to “Pathway Officer” or
some such. We’ll have to wait for the AGM to
do the change, but the job seems to be the same.
At the end of last season, everyone who had
entered an ECB ACO accreditation process
through the CCUSA passed.
Special congratulations to Ben Whyall and
David Pimblett, who have just joined the EAPL.
Hopefully, with the log jam removed and Div
One marking coming in, we will have many
more people going forward for trials soon.
MENTORING
This season, many senior Umpires may get asked
to do an on-field observation or a bit of ad-hoc
mentoring and I also welcome constructive
informal feedback from Scorers regarding
Umpire performances. We have a lot of
relatively new Umpires out there, let’s give them
all the help we can.
APPOINTMENTS SYSTEM
Back in February, John Mersh demonstrated our
own custom-built appointments system, which is
now operating at full blast and is a huge
improvement on the old system. It has taken a
year to build and is way better than the ECB
system. We used it to generate the fixtures for
the CCA and Whiting handbooks, so it paid for
itself even before the season started.
As a quick example, a couple of early pre-season
friendlies came in and I have just added a
complete new week to the start of the season,
reflected with a hyperlink jump on every page,
recreated the website and updated the live system
in about 90 seconds. That would have been an
afternoons work before. I reckon it will save
about 80 hours of time during the season.
Regular users will not see much difference apart
from it will be updated almost on a daily basis
during the season. The great saving will be
Keith being able to update it when he is away
and not wait until he gets home.
Improvements for next winter include an
automatic e-mailing facility and the ability to see
all appointments for an Umpire for a season
online. At the moment, we can generate these
for your portfolios on an ad-hoc basis, just ask
Bushy and he’ll email you a set across to you.
Look up your appointments online; as you well
know, they change almost daily in the season.
MEMBER SERVICES
Ben Whyall is now in charge of a consolidated
member database since we merged the jobs of
Treasurer, Membership Secretary and Secretary.
We have a GDPR statement in place, the main
gist of it is “by making yourself available to
stand in games in the leagues covered by
CCUSA you hereby give the CCUSA the right to
process your information. If you do not wish to
grant the CCUSA this authority you cannot be
appointed to any games appointed to by the
CCUSA”; so we are covered. All the handbooks
have had addresses and emails removed in any
case and we are only publishing phone numbers
online, bar the Officers who need to be
contactable and have consented in writing.
The ECB DBS checks have now completed their
move to the online system. We can start the
DBS process, and then we can quickly get it all
sorted. You will also be registered by default for
the DBS update service, so that you will not need
to reapply for the DBS it will be kept updated
automatically, and unless you move house, you
will not ever need another check. This will
cover all of your cricket activities.
DBS SIGNATORIES
Umpires: Rob Benson
Scorers: Helen Hyde
Education: Ben Whyall
Coaches: Pete Laughlin
CCUSA SUMMER BARBEQUE
As last year, we will be at Sawston CC on
Sunday 18th
August from half four onwards.
There will be the end of the Junior Cup final for
us to watch. If it’s rains, we’ll be in the bar.
Attendance is free, but buy your own burger.
WAGs are very welcome.
SEVEN SIGNALS OFF JUST ONE BALL
This actually happened to me at Saffron Walden
last season. I had one ball which resulted in
seven signals (no revokes) to seven different
individuals plus the batsmen and the whole
fielding side, all made with one hand.
You might like to pause for a second and try to
work out what happened …
… well, what happened was …
… The bowler lets a beamer go at the batsman’s
head. He throws himself to the floor, and so
does the keeper!! The ball flies to the boundary,
sooooo …
1. I have already got my arm out signalling
the no-ball to the players.
2. I repeat the no-ball signal to the two
Scorers.
3. I signal byes to the Scorers.
4. I signal boundary 4 to the Scorers.
5. I signal to the two batsmen, my colleague
and the Fielding Captain that I have
cautioned the bowler.
6. I signal to the fielding team, my
colleague and the batsman that it is a
free hit.
7. I signal to my colleague that there are still
two left in the over.
… did you get them all ?
MARKING
We are trying to bring in a simple Captains’
marking system for Whiting Division One (only)
this season, all run online via play cricket. We
will NOT be using these marks in any way;
certainly they will not be used to decide
appointments nor grades; they are just there for
the people who want to progress to the EAPL.
There will not even be any sanctions for
Captains not filling them in, and you don’t have
to ask for them to be done. We will not be
publishing anything like a “Merit List” either.
You can get your marks at the end of the season
by contacting Chris Abbott, the Whiting League
Secretary, who is in charge of the system.
CCUSA OFFICERS
President Frank Appleyard
Chairman Pete Laughlin
07850 702498
Vice-Chairman Chris Wilson
07752 077688
Hon. Secretary & Ben Whyall
Hon. Treasurer 07734 253709
Appointments Keith Coburn
07752 241488
Education & Steve Kent-Phillips
Performance 01638 743883
Scorers Helen Hyde
07970 943713
Welfare Rob Benson
07886 528185
ACO Contact Pete Laughlin
Cambs Board Rep Pete Laughlin
Whiting Rep Ken Smart
CCA Rep Steve Plumb
Member Services Ben Whyall
Hon. Life Members
Frank Appleyard
Richard Baker
Russell Fear
Bill Johnson
Ian Reid
David Wedgwood
DIARY 2019
Sunday 18 August
from 4.30 pm until it gets dark
ANNUAL BARBEQUE
& CCA Junior Cup Final
Sawston CC
Thursday 3 October
Post-Season Review
Friday 11 October
7.00 for 7.30 pm
ANNUAL DINNER
Girton Golf Club
Thursday 7 November
Speaker tbc
Thursday 5 December
8.00 pm
AGM & Supper night
JUNIOR PITCH LENGTHS
Under 11 & Under 12: 18 yards
Under 13 & Under 14: 19 yards
Under 15 upwards: 22 yards
This applies to both Boys and Girls Cricket and
both CYC (club) and CYCA (county) matches.
Don’t go out there with a measuring tape, just be
ready for kids accidentally turning for a run at
the “wrong” popping crease and running short.
Just Chillin’ …
Our Man from Havana (Christopher Dean)
Taking things easy in India again