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[ProCricketer1982]

http://www.totalcricketscorer.com/tcslive/TCSScorecard.aspx?id=20526

A guy who I bat against every week is playing in the Somerset friendly. He's gone for a few runs but really happy to see he got a wicket at least!! To share a pitch with tresco though must be pretty special.

Here's hoping he gets another go in the next game.

[TangoWhiskey]

http://www.totalcricketscorer.com/tcslive/TCSScorecard.aspx?id=20526

A guy who I bat against every week is playing in the Somerset friendly. He's gone for a few runs but really happy to see he got a wicket at least!! To share a pitch with tresco though must be pretty special.

Here's hoping he gets another go in the next game.

Doesn't look like Steve Finn is bowling too well either which is a shame.

[arsenal123]

Ian Blackwell umpiring the match.  Very quick route to the top for former players!

[123*]

Considering he wasn't even umpiring premier league two year ago it's a bit of a joke. Glass ceilings and all that...

[TangoWhiskey]

Considering he wasn't even umpiring premier league two year ago it's a bit of a joke. Glass ceilings and all that...

Bloody hell, it's not like he is umpiring the World T20 final or a test match! He's a former professional who has experience of the game at the highest level, I would suggest he's got more of a right to umpire a county warm up game than your average 80 year old league umpire!

[123*]

IIRC from the courses I went on you have to be ECB ACO L3 to do professional/county 2s/minor counties games. To get on to your L3 you have to first be selected by your county board to do it. Also to do your L3 you have to be umpiring at least premier league cricket, for at least 12 months. Finally it takes around 2 years to achieve your L3 with all the on field assessments etc you have to do. So Blackwell is either umpiring a game he is not qualified to do or he has been pushed through the system and qualified in an otherwise impossible timescale. I understand he has played FC cricket and for England, but that doesn't mean he's going to be a better umpire than someone who hasn't but has umpired for 20 year! ECB showing again it's jobs for the boys I'm afraid!

[joeljonno]

How do you know he has not been umpiring for a while, possibly overseas, and have the necessary.

Or why worry, it's a warm up game, maybe he is getting his experience and seeing whether he is good enough.


This 'job for the boys' malarkey is just silly. You could say it about anything now.




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[arsenal123]

Well to be fair its a non first class game, I'm sure hes just getting experience through his former employer helping out.

[123*]

Because I have played in games he has umpired in, most notably the first one he ever did in 2012. Just think how its crap that he wasn't even the best umpire in the league but fly's up because of his former career.

[kalph]

who gives a (No Swearing Please)?

[123*]

Me, because as something I enjoy and would love to have a go at if I retired early I find it disappointing it can happen. You made a post about having a hundred pairs of trainers the other day, I might not give a (No Swearing Please) about that but I didn't post it, why go on like that to me?

[kalph]

Dont take it to heart