Law 43 March, 2020 Cricket Officials at the NCIC Presentation Night (L→R): Chris Ive, Jamie Wyatt, Jeff Diamond-Smith, Aneesh Shetye, Ash Barrow, Paul Welbourn, Daryl Cox, Trevor Finlayson, Bill Sheahan, Chitanya Rajhansa (See article p5.) In This Issue: • From the Editor • …And the President • National Inclusions Cricket Championships • VCAUSA Annual Sausage Sizzle • Social Cricket – VCAUSA vs Mount Waverley Vets • A Day in the Life of a Match Referee • CV/VCAUSA Scholarship Program Update • The Superstitions of Cricket • Some John Collins’ Wisdom • Macca’s Book Review • Vale Francis John Goodman • VCAUSA Calendar • VCAUSA Items for Sale VCA Umpires’ & Scorers’ Association Newsletter Vol. 26 No. 7, 2019-2020 season Page 1 Law 43 Magazine of the Victorian Cricket Association Umpires’ and Scorers’ Association Incorporated. Cricket Victoria (CV) is acknowledged for the electronic distribution to the CV Panel Members. Should any member prefer to receive a hard copy, please contact the Secretary, Gerry Schembri. CONTENTS From the Editor..……………………………………………………….. 3 …. And the President – Presidential Musings…………………….....4 National Cricket Inclusions Championships……………………........ 5 VCAUSA Annual Sausage Sizzle..…………………….……………...6 Social Cricket – VCAUSA vs Mount Waverley Vets………………....7 A Day in the Life of a Match Referee................................................9 CV/VCAUSA Scholarship Program Update……..............................11 The Superstitions of Cricket………………........................................13 Some John Collins’ Wisdom………………………………………..….13 Macca’s Book Review .....................................................................14 Vale Francis John Goodman...………………………………………...15 VCAUSA Calendar..……………….……………………………………16 VCAUSA Items for Sale………………………………………….16 VCAUSA COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT PRESIDENT: ALAN MCCARTHY VICE-PRESIDENT: TONY VENTURA SECRETARY: GERRY SCHEMBRI TREASURER: ROD MCKINNON COMMITTEE MEMBERS: DAN BOMFORD, ANDREW CHATTEN, LUKE EDWARDS, KIM FAULKNER, DAMIAN HERFT & GLENN SCHACHE OTHER OFFICE HOLDERS AND CO-ORDINATORS BADGES & ACCESSORIES: GLENN CUMMING LAW 43 EDITOR: TREVOR FINLAYSON SOCIAL ORGANISER: GERRY SCHEMBRI HISTORIAN: BILL ELLEMOR MISCELLANEOUS APPOINTMENTS: DARRELL HOLT CURRENT LIFE MEMBERS J.R. Collins (1976) K. Allday (1980) G.M. Thies (1981) D.N. Bomford (1989) C. Andrews (1990) R.C. Bailhache (1994) D.W. Holt (1995) N.J. Grant (1997) D.L. Byrne (2000) R.F. Francione (2001) L.J. King (2002) W.R. Ellemor (2003) P. Hooper (2005) A.L. Eldridge (2006) J.L. Collins (2010) J.A. Howard (2011) P.J. Shanahan (2016) T.R. Finlayson (2017) G.P. Schembri (2018) E.J. Kelly (2019) CORRESPONDENCE AND CONTRIBUTIONS: ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO THE SECRETARY GERRY SCHEMBRI, PO BOX 1284, MOUNTAIN GATE 3156 OR EMAIL: [email protected] VCAUSA WEBSITE: http://vcausa.vic.cricket.com.au Volume 26 Number 7 2019-2020 Page 2 FROM THE EDITOR As we approach the “business end” of season 2019-20, I am pleased to bring you the last issue of “Law 43”, Volume 26. The Premier Finals series will remain for a small fraction of all involved in Premier Cricket, and to these players and officials, we wish you the “best of luck”, if it is “luck” that determines your continued participation in the game for this season. While Finals are fun, it is unfortunate that the weeks of the finals are more often than not the best time of the year for playing our great game. It is again the turn of President Alan McCarthy to present the regular President/Vice-President column. In this case, some readers will be interested to read of the pending meeting which, as I understand, will involve the VCAUSA President, Secretary as well as Daryl Brigham, with Paul Milo of Cricket Victoria to address some of the current problems facing the management of Umpiring at Cricket Victoria. Naturally, all members of the CV umpiring panel and perhaps scorer members as well, await the outcome of these discussions. For a fourth year, the National Cricket Inclusions Championships were held in Geelong and I have prepared a short report on the week in which several CV Panel Umpires officiated. Then follow two articles on some social activity, the first the now Annual VCAUSA Sausage Sizzle and the second a social cricket match, the only one for this season as the first, scheduled for December, was washed out. I am grateful to Tony Ventura for his report on this match. There will surely be more matches th next season, as we look towards the 90P P Easter Exchange with our South Australian colleagues during Easter, 2021. Many thanks Tony Medina for his detailed report entitled “A Day in the Life of a Match Referee.” Maybe some readers will be interested in this area of officiating in our great game which seems to be growing in importance, given the increase in the number of tournaments be scheduled. Thanks also to Chris Grant, the 2019-20 CV/VCAUSA Scholarship recipient, for his second report for the readers of “Law 43.” His second report, as with his first, is a most interesting read and we wish him well for his future career in umpiring. I was moved to print “The Superstitions of Cricket”, following a page I came across in Alan Border’s most enjoyable book and again, I thank John Collins’ for “his wisdom” column. I am disappointed that no other reader has taken up the offer to provide some further “wisdom” to this page. I know that many readers would have known English Scorer, John Goodman who passed away in November last year. Thanks to Darrell Holt, I am pleased to publish a short tribute to John in this issue. Again, Alan McCarthy has provided a book review and the offer remains for any member to submit a review of something you have recently read yourself, since already we have a first book review for the 2020-21 season’s volume, so this column will no doubt continue. As usual the back page contains the ongoing VCAUSA Calendar and a list of VCAUSA items for sale. Trevor Finlayson ----------------------------------------------------- Volume 26 Number 7 2019-2020 Page 3 … AND THE PRESIDENT – PRESIDENTIAL MUSINGS I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land for me! Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968) My Country published in The Spectator 1908. During February we saw it all. Hot sunny days, sultry steamy days and days of torrential flooding rains. In March we turn our minds to finals. Congratulations to all teams, scorers and umpires who will participate in this season’s finals campaigns. Don’t forget to join your colleagues for a drink and something to eat at the “Nibbles on the Hill” provided by the VCAUSA in association with the 1st XI th Grand Final on Saturday, 4P P April. th On Friday, 6P P March Secretary Gerry Schembri and I are meeting with Paul Milo of Cricket Victoria to discuss a range of issues including the appointment of an Umpiring Manager, the Umpires’ Retirement Benefit Fund and how Cricket Victoria can support umpires and scorers in Premier Cricket. March will also see the finals of the ICC Women’s World Cup. With plenty of publicity and teams from Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Thailand and West Indies, the profile of women’s cricket has been raised across the nation. For the first time the VCAUSA Committee of Management will be introducing our Women’s Premier st Cricket Umpire of the Year award at our Annual Dinner and Presentation night on Friday 1P P May. The VCAUSA provides awards at the end of the season including the Robin Bailhache Commitment Award, the Cameron Medal for Scorer of the Year and the Ray Isherwood Perpetual Trophy for the Representative Umpire of the Year. The Committee of Management looks forward to seeing you at the Annual Dinner to celebrate the season and the achievements of our colleagues. Alan McCarthy ------------------------------------------------------- RECENT SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES nd 500 Games Malcolm Gunn Casey Sth Melb vs Melbourne Uni 2P P XI (29 Feb. & 1 Mar. 2020) st 200 Games Ron Birch Prahran vs Carlton 1P P XI (22 Feb. 2020) st th 100 1P P XI Jason Leonard-Scott Frankston Peninsula vs Melbourne (29P P Feb & 1 Mar. 2020) rd 100 Games Viv Kumar Casey Sth Melb vs Ringwood 3P P XI (22 Feb. 2020) ---------------------------------------------------- Volume 26 Number 7 2019-2020 Page 4 NATIONAL CRICKET INCLUSIONS CHAMPIONSHIPS th th From 12P P to 17 P P January, 2020 a fourth National Cricket Inclusions Championships involving interstate teams in the inclusions categories (for men) of intellectually disabled (ID), deaf (D) and blind (B) as well as two D women’s teams, one from Victoria and the other a “Combined All Stars” team consisting of women from South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT, were conducted in the Geelong area. This being a Cricket Australia event, the various match officials, match managers, scorers, match referee, etc., were Cricket Australia appointees while the umpires, 11 in all, with just two exceptions, Chris Ive and Michael Clements, came from the Cricket Victoria Premier Umpiring panel. These umpires were Ash Barrow, Jeff Diamond-Smith, Trevor Finlayson, Chaitanya Rajhansa, Glenn Schache, Bill Sheahan, Aneesh Shetye and Paul Welbourn, who were present for the whole Championships and Chris Grant who attended on the Thursday. It should be pointed out that the Cricket Australia tender for the hosting of the 2020 Championships had originally been awarded to Adelaide, but for unknown reasons, the Championships had to be returned to Geelong towards the end of 2019. Geelong is indeed an ideal location for such an event, with several excellent turf grounds and volunteer ground support staff, within a reasonable area and with most ideal accommodation in the residences of Deakin University, Waurn Ponds Campus, for the many interstate Umpires Trevor Finlayson (left) and teams and officials.