SCORER'S PAGE - LAST UPDATED 27/01/12

SCORER TRAINING IN 2012

There are Scorer Introductory and Level 1 courses planned for Spring 2012. iVsit the Training page for further details

Also on the training page you will find details of a new ECBACO Total Cricket Scorer training course. The first South & West course (open to Glos scorers) is being held at the Rose Bowl on April 7th.

CALLING ALL SCORERS - GET YOURSELF GRADED

Are you a competent scorer? Do you score regularly for a league team? Would you like to join the ECBACO at your relevant level, without having to attend a training course or sit an exam?
If you answer yes to the all the above questions then the ECBACO “Get Yourself Graded” initiative is for you.

You have until March 2012 to contact the ECBACO and join their scheme. You will be graded by a local assessor based on evidence of your current work (scorebook) and given membership of the ECBACO at the appropriate level. There is a fee for assessment, but this includes your membership fee to the ECBACO for the first year. For further details visit the ECBACO website.
Come on all you scorers in Gloucestershire. Join the growing band of scorers across the country while you have the chance.

REGULAR SCORER WANTED IN THE ABINGDON AREA

A cricket club in the Abingdon area of Oxford is looking for a regular scorer for the 2012 season. Scorer fees for this club are £40 per Saturday game and £35 per week-day game. Anyone interested should send their details to webmaster@glosumps.org.uk and who will put you in contact with the club in question.

ENCOURAGE MORE SCORERS

Do you know someone who is currently scoring for their own club and is NOT a member of this association? GACU&S need more scorer members. We don't have sufficient scorer members to fulfill our fixture list of Gloucestershire Youth games and there must be more competent scorers already scoring in our leagues around the county. Click on the Flyer logo to view the GACU&S Scorer Flyer (in PDF format). Please feel free to print this flyer and distrbute to any scorer you know or officiate with in Gloucestershire and help GACU&S to increase their scorer membership and help scorers all across the county to reap the benefits that GACU&S can offer.

NO BALL SIGNAL REMINDER

This message has been written by Chris Kelly, to pass on to all scorers following a recent misunderstanding in a televised game. I am sure for most scorers reading this, that it will just be a reminder:

"In a recent televised match there was some confusion - not on behalf of the umpires I am pleased to report - and I have outlined the correct procedure below to inform SKY and the scorers so they will know what to expect in future:"

Striker's End Umpire No Balls

This is an area one which does not rear its head too often. The procedure that I have passed on to SKY and the scorers that you all adopt is as follows:

When the striker's end umpire calls and signals a no ball he will do so immediately the ball is bowled. This call and signal is for the benefit of the fielders and the batsmen and also his colleague at the bowler's end only.

When the ball is dead, the umpire at the bowler's end will repeat the no ball signal along together with any other signals necessary following that delivery (boundary, byes...). This is due to the fact that the focus of the scorer will naturally be on the umpire at the bowler's end for any signalling. It also allows the message to get across to the scorer allowing him to acknowledge the signals one at a time without having to try to differentiate to which umpire he is acknowledging.

SCORER'S HANDOUTS

For anyone completely new to scoring or just wanting a "quick guide" to scoring to take with them to matches, here are two useful documents.
Please feel free to print these documents as many times as required and to circulate them to as many scorers as you can find.

Click on The Scoring Guide , for a two page PDF document telling you the basics of how to score.
It takes you through the minimum amount of data to be recorded and identifies the symbols that you should be using for most standard events.

Click on Signals and Dismissals , for a two page PDF document, showing pictures of all the umpiring signals and a table of dismissals, with lots of information, such as whether or not the bowler gets credit and if they can happen on a Wide or a No Ball.

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NOTCHER'S NEWSLETTER

Following the breakup of the ACU&S, many scorers now feel that they have no form of communication with other scorers across the country and already miss the scoring articles and news included in the old Hows' That magazine. Ex-ACU&S scorers board chariman (Cathy Rawson) has kindly agreed to edit and publish an independant newsletter (see links below) designed purely for scorers, from club to international level.

Please feel free to give copies of or links to this newsletter to as many other scorers as you can, to spread the word far and wide.

For further news from the Notchers, please visit the Notchers News website.

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SCORING STATIONERY

MILLENNIUM SCORING RECORD - box style scoresheets

The A3 scoring record originally designed by members of the ACU&S Scorers’ Board

Binder and 50 sheets (= 100 innings) £20 + P&P

Refill pack of 50 sheets £10 + P&P

For further details email milsteadmsr@btinternet.com

STAEDTLER COLOURED PENS - fine line coloured scoring pens

Staedtler 0.3mm coloured pens recommended by scorers from all across the country

Available from (amongst other places) Acumen Books

BILL FRINDALL SCORING SHEETS AND BINDERS

Available in packs of 100, Bill's Scoring Sheets are 37.2 x 24.6cm (14.6 x 9.7in) in size. Printed in green on 100gsm paper, they are punched to fit into binder covers, made of dark green leathercloth over 3mm greyboard and lined with colorplan paper, supplied and fitted with three brass interscrew fixings. Each binder set is gold embossed on the front and autographed inside the front cover. Full, illustrated instructions are included with each binder set. Instructions are also available free of charge on request when ordering refill packs.

Current prices and ordering methods can be found on The Bill Frindall website , which continues to be maintained by his wife Debbie.

TOM SMITH'S CRICKET UMPIRING AND SCORING

The umpire's and scorer's "bible". This book incorporates the full 2000 Code of the Laws of Cricket with amendments as ratified by the MCC and international and national cricket bodies in 2003. The freshly drawn diagrams are easy to follow and will be of great value to all umpires and scorers. Available from (amongst other places): Acumen Books ; Amazon ; Sports Books Direct

TOTAL CRICKET SCORER

Total Cricket Scorer is the scorer's choice of cricket scorebook software. It has been designed to allow the user to enter ball-by-ball information for a cricket match just as you would in a traditional cricket scorebook. You can then review the data to determine player's strengths and weaknesses and view batting statistics and bowling statistics. There are many different views of scorebook availble as the data is being input, including the traditional scorebook view with the current scores shown on a conventional black and white scoreboard.

Many reports are available for printing once the game is over, including a full scorebook page, as if you have scored it yourself on paper.

For more information and to download a free 5 match trial version of the software, please visit Code 27 - the Total Cricket Scorer website.

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