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[Karl_27]

It was always compulsory as a jumior to learn how to score! When i do score i dont have the neatest book but can say that it is going to add up and be correct.

Think all juniors should have to learn, good skill to have!

[RF]

We have a scorer on Saturday, he's brilliant, different colours, ball count the lot.  He wins the best score book award for the league every year, another advantage of playing first team cricket.

We do it ourselves on Sundays's, don't let the juniors fob you off with I don't know how to do it, make them sit next to you and learn, that's how we do it.

[addidasf55]

I remember when I was in school, got put down as a scorer for the first game of the season.. To be fair the coach hadn't seen me play. I was like naaaaah I ain't waking up at 9am on a Saturday to go score a game. Came up with a stupid excuse on the spot.. And wasn't picked for the first team for a couple of weeks. Lesson learned.
However they soon realised how stupid the policy was as they dropped having a specialist scorer very soon. Just got one of the batsmen to do it in the pavilion.
As for now I bat in the top order.. So on the days we don't have a specialist scorer the bowlers score but one of the top order needs to score when they get out.
That's just another incentive to bat long   

[golden duck]

Our firsts have a scorer but the 2nds don't. We have one or two guys who do it, then skipper just puts it in someone's lap and says get O with it.

We normally work with tthe other team, but we are not going to every dot etc. (shame sometimes, but can understand why).

I normally umpire (done the courses and everything so I must know what I'm doing...)

[WalkingWicket37]

I normally umpire (done the courses and everything so I must know what I'm doing...)

Oh god, not another one!

The number of times I've heard that...

[frooper11]

We take it in turns but it normally ends up with the usual suspects doing it, same as umpiring.

What I have done though is print out small images of the common scoring symbols and selotaped them to the inside cover of the scorebook. No excuses then!

[ProCricketer1982]

I normally umpire (done the courses and everything so I must know what I'm doing...)

Oh god... don't let it hit the pads...

[DACD 1987]

It was always compulsory as a jumior to learn how to score! When i do score i dont have the neatest book but can say that it is going to add up and be correct.

Think all juniors should have to learn, good skill to have!

Ditto.

Been playing cricket for over 40 overs and it never fails to amaze me the amount of players who can't score, "don't know the rules so can't umpire" and don't know the names of any fielding positions except bowler, wicket keeper and slip!

Also interesting when after being dismissed you can talk through the various attributes of the fielding side - good arm, left/right handed, slow to get down, weak throw etc. I have been asked numerous times have a played with them or against them before.

No, it's just that I watch the game not just look at it. 

[Cin88]

As a junior I bluntly refused to score every time the book was passed my way in an adult midweek game, I didn't care if they dropped me because I was only doing fine leg to fine leg and batting 11 anyway. They soon stopped passing it to me and a couple of others once the book got five overs behind too many times.

My current club has scorers for both teams so we don't have to try and force it on someone, the club secretary regularly wins the best kept scorebook award. Umpiring is a must in second team games though, we have an umpire shortage so normally there's only one league appointed umpire, he/she stands at the non-striker's end at both ends whilst a player from the batting side takes square leg. I often end up stood umpiring for 7-10 overs, I'd rather do that than score any day of the week.

[WalkingWicket37]

As a junior I bluntly refused to score every time the book was passed my way in an adult midweek game, I didn't care if they dropped me because I was only doing fine leg to fine leg and batting 11 anyway. They soon stopped passing it to me and a couple of others once the book got five overs behind too many times.

My current club has scorers for both teams so we don't have to try and force it on someone, the club secretary regularly wins the best kept scorebook award. Umpiring is a must in second team games though, we have an umpire shortage so normally there's only one league appointed umpire, he/she stands at the non-striker's end at both ends whilst a player from the batting side takes square leg. I often end up stood umpiring for 7-10 overs, I'd rather do that than score any day of the week.

Weirdo! 

It's much easier to write down what happens off each ball than have to make a decision lol

[Cin88]

I did an umpiring stint in two thirds of the games I played last year, didn't have to make a single decision. I'd still rather do that than sit in the scorebox trying to act like some second rate version of bearders.