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

appointments@the-ccusa.co.uk

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

stevekentphillips@yahoo.com

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

ben.whyall@gmail.com

Appointments Keith Coburn

07752 241488

Education & Steve Kent-Phillips

Performance 01638 743883

stevekentphillips@yahoo.com

Scorers Helen Hyde

07970 943713

Welfare Rob Benson

07886 528185

rgb.sawstoncc@gmail.com

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