Umpires and scorers
don’t grow on trees
That’s right - they’re manufactured. Officials have to be recruited, trained, examined, and scrutinsed.
Your club could not operate without someone umpiring and someone else scoring.
That’s where the ACO comes into operation. Each winter throughout the county separate training courses are held for umpires and scorers.
All you need is to enlist your candidates -
For details contact one of the following:
Umpire training - martin.seguss@btopenworld.com
Scorer training - Andy Bateup
Level 1 Umpire Training Courses Winter 2012
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PrintBudding Umpires will want to know what courses have been arranged for the coming winter and this is the list.
Attached are the explanatory leaflet, which includes all contact details and an application form.
Please note that all courses are subject to numbers.
Level 1A Umpire courses arranged
All those Umpires who have taken and passed the Level 1 Award are now eligible to move on to the next level which is 1A.
Courses have been arranged and the details can be found here. If you are interested you’ll need the application form which can be found at this link.
New Edition of the Laws of Cricket
MCC Laws Sub Committee has recently approved the 4th Edition of the Laws of Cricket.
A PDF Version of the New Edition of the Laws of Cricket is available for download here.
A document explaining all the changes and the reasons why is available for download from here.
New law books will be available through ECB’s licensed merchandise supplier, Duncan Fearnley Cricket Sales Limited, from August 2010 on their dedicated ACO website www.ecbacoshop.co.uk.
ECB ACO has also produced a best practice guide. The purpose is to help guide new officials manage a game of cricket. A copy of the card will be sent out in the next newsletter but a version can be found here.
Positioning Guidelines
After recent incidents that have occurred the ECB ACO would like to release the following guidelines that were printed in an earlier copy of the ACO Newsletter.