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POINTS OF
INTEREST: Notchers’ Newsletter
• Kinross CC - from a
dying to a thriving
club and trained
scorer team in 4
years ISSUE 1 JULY 2008
• ACU&S Challenge
2007 - answers and
summary from John
Brown (page 3)
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Scorers count. The match THE KINROSS CC SCORER TEAM
result, newspaper report,
Back row: Kim Tree and Debbie For ECB ACO and IICUS
end of season statistics and
Weir training information visit
club & league awards are only
Front row: Julie Farrar, Kirsteen their website (see the last
available because the infor- Ross and Amanda James
mation has been recorded by page for addresses.
notchers@btopenworld.com
We thought we had nothing to lose so This proved a very busy time for the club; scored and something new and exiting
entered our junior teams in Scottish Cup buying and building a new pavilion, planting was awoken. There was more to this
tournaments. new grass wickets and laying artificial prac- scoring than keeping the scoreboard up
Things just got better and better. By the tice and match surfaces. With the work to date. We trainee scorers studied hard
end of the season, we had 90 junior completed, the ground was officially and regularly submitted our scoring tasks
members and our under 13 team had opened in June 2007. and score sheets for marking. We tried to
won the Scottish Cup and come runner’s learn those Laws of Cricket that related
By the end of 2007 we had won the U13
up in the Northern UK finals effectively to scoring, struggling along the way at
Scottish Cup again as and the U15 Cup
making us the 2nd best team from Mid- times to understand those quirky points
and now had 120 junior members.
dlesbrough, North. of law that tested us greatly – “When
I now had a new mission – to improve the quality
exactly does a ball not count as one in the
At the end of 2006 we realised that over? We met regularly and exchanged
the15 year old worn and ripped artificial of the scoring at the club lots of emails and had lots of fun. In April
pitch on a muddy Council owned Public 2008 we undertook the ACU&S scoring
Park that doubled up as a football field It was becoming apparent that certain skills exam. We were all really nervous and we
was no longer suitable. The grass was cut were lacking in the club, particularly that had an anxious wait for our results. But
fortnightly and after rainy football very important task of scoring. Everyone what a happy day – 2 weeks later we
matches we were literally ankle deep in filled in the books differently. Some used heard by email that we had passed.
mud – the park was not called “The symbols, some scored every ball and some
Myre” for nothing! We had to find a new We now can boast:
scored only runs scored by batsmen. The
ground. books were often inaccurate and compiling • 19 qualified coaches coaching 150 chil-
statistics for the year end prizes was be- dren.
Local Laird, Sir David Montgomery heard
of the club’s plight. He had played for coming a nightmare. I now had a new mis- • Every match is now scored by one of
Kinross Cricket Club as a teenager, loves sion – to improve the quality of the scor- our trained scorers.
cricket and his family are passionate ing at the club. • Score books are meticulously com-
about making Kinross-shire a great I needed to find people who regularly at- pleted.
county Impressed with the work the tended matches at the different levels • Statistics are easily obtained and up-
club did with the local children and teen- within the club to ensure all the age group dated each week and pinned on the
agers, the Montgomery Family suggested games would have scorers. Who better to club notice board.
we relocate the club to the county pitch ask but mothers! • Balls received by all batsmen plus wide
size lawns in front of the beautiful, Sir deliveries really do equal balls bowled
William Bruce designed 17th century, Some of us had a reasonable knowledge
by all the bowlers.
Kinross House. while others were new to the laws of
cricket. All showed great enthusiasm to • Children and teenagers appreciate the
learn and take the club on to the next work of the scorers, and captains,
level of excellence and ACU&S offered the coaches and players thank us for our
perfect solution to our learning needs – time.
scoring courses by correspondence. We • Many of the youngsters are taking a
contacted Peter Danks and Cathy Rawson real interest in how the score book is
and enrolled two members of our new filled in.
scorer team on the introductory and I know that the future of scoring at Kin-
three on the standard level course. We ross CC will be secure for quite some
purchased copies of Tom Smith’s book time to come.
(we’d never heard of this book before).
Wow! What a revelation and what de- So what next? I feel a new mission coming
Kinross House and Cricket Ground bates this started. Aspects of games played on … the standard of umpiring in junior
in the past were debated to establish cricket is mixed to say the least. I wonder
whether the games had been correctly what I can do about that ….
Unusual score book entries Kevin Hutchinson (Thorner CC) reports a first for him:
Ground problems caused us to have to play on a public park. All was going well
Lorna Piper recorded until I received the message " the park rangers want two of your players
‘Red Arrows stopped play’ vehicles moved ".
Playing on East Hill, Hastings, play was paused when WHAT'S A SCORER TO DO?
the smoke from the Red Arrows display along the At the end of the over I trotted out to the umpire with a "sorry sir but I need
seafront meant I could not see the pitch! The League to borrow the Square Leg and Gully" Its possibly the only time I’ll ever record
rules demanded five hours play so I had to record the reason for a delay in play as " Vehicle Removal ",
the length of the interruption! It set me wondering.... there must be lots of other unusual reasons for
stoppages ?
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