CRICKET TASMANIA MATCH OFFICIALS UPDATE Thursday, March 22, 2018

Recent Media Activity Club Cricket Honour Roll http://bit.ly/2ubQqCF

CTMO Upcoming Events Wednesday, 28 March 2018 TCUSA Annual Dinner – 7:00pm, Clarence on the Bay Saturday, 7 April 2018 NWTCUSA Annual Dinner and Trophy Night – 7:00pm, Bass and Flinders

CTMO Appointment News Sam Nogajski Sheffield Shield Final - v Tasmania, Field 23-27 Mar 18 Darren Close Youth ODIs – v Pakistan, 16, 18 & 20 April

Grand Final Appointments It is the final weekend of the summer and CT would like to acknowledge those standing in Grand Finals this weekend.

Cricket Tasmania Premier League First Grade – Darren Close & Mike Graham-Smith. Emerg: Will Braid Second Grade – Jamie Mitchell & Muhammad Qureshi. Emerg: Karun DT Third Grade – Greg Beechey & Wade Stewart. Emerg: Gil van der Steege Under 17s – Simon Burns & Harvey Wolff. Emerg: Brett Lord

Cricket North First Grade – Harry Galea & Scott Whitters Second Grade – Russel Day & Craig Johns

North West Cricket Umpires' Association First Grade – Scott Pearce & David Hudson Second Grade – Mark Smith & Barney Miller

Kookaburra Southern Cricket Association First Grade – Shane Cranfield & Phil Ion

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Huon Channel Cricket Association A Grade Div 1 – Kirk Hughes & Marcus Newman A Grade Div 2 – Greg Watson & Scott Turner B Grade Div 1 – Tim Smith & Scott Chapman B Grade Div 2 – Mick Dakin & Luke Casboult C Grade Div 1 – Kade Paul & Jay Bowden C Grade Div 2 – Bob Direen & Mayank Malik

CT Recruitment Campaign CT will embark on an ambitious recruitment campaign for next season. To assist in helping CT reach its target of having full coverage of all games across the State, every umpire in Tasmania can help. Regardless of what competition an umpire is standing in, he is one of the best recruiting tools we have. The obvious angle of performing the role of the umpire well is, in itself, a good start as players will see umpires as people who enjoy the game and may be drawn into a conversation about why an umpire does what he does. Each umpire has the opportunity at every game to act as a recruiter through conversations at lunch and after the game with players who may make good umpires, particularly those getting to the end of their playing career. Once a level of interest has been gauged, please contact Billy at CT who can arrange to go through some of the finer points with the prospective new umpire.

Conversation starters might be; “Have you considered umpiring when you finish playing?” “We really have the best place to watch the game.” “I think you would enjoy the challenge.” “You can earn tax free dollars.” “We have a great bunch to umpire and I think you would fit in to out group quite well.”

CT Match Officials Facebook CT is using social media to promote umpiring and scoring across the state. To help us reach as many people as possible, please like the CT Match Officials Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/CTMatchOfficials/ The reach of this Facebook page is only limited by the number of people who like, comment and share posts from the site.

It would be great if every umpire who is on Facebook liked this page and invited at least one friend to like the page, this would represent a 75% increase in the number of people hearing about the good work that is being done in umpiring and scoring around Tasmania.

The Facebook page will be used heavily next season when we start our recruiting campaign. The more people who are exposed to it, the more potential umpires and scorers we can reach.

The CT Match Officials Facebook page is for all umpires and scorers statewide. If you have anything you would like to contribute to this page with something you think people might be interested in, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Upcoming Match Milestones Sam Nogajski (TCUSA) 99 CTPL First Grade Matches All stats are matches including current appointment sheet

Editor’s Note: If you know of anything within the world of match officials, please get in touch with Will Braid and we will share the news and acknowledge the good work being done around the state by Tasmanian Match Officials.

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