Recognising Long Service to Umpiring / Scoring
ECB ACO is keen to ensure that any member who has provided the game with 25 or 40 years’ officiating is a recipient of a commemorative tie. Please contact your county ACO in order to receive one.
In January, Lancashire ACO awarded long-service ties to four ECB ACO members, who in total have serviced the game to the tune of 161 * years officiating.
From left to right: Eric Roberts( President), Nick Cousins( Head of ECB ACO), John Lloyd( 41 years), Harold Marshall( 40 years). Seated: Karen and Clive Knott( both 40 years)
Kitting Out the Army
ECB recently had some surplus kit and coincidentally received a request from the British Army in Kansas, who were to play a cricket match in celebration of the Queen’ s 90th birthday, asking for any assistance!
The following reply and photos were received:
‘ We had a brilliant day! We arranged a Queen’ s 90th birthday English tea on the US Army Base here at Fort Leavenworth. We had the works – Victoria sponges, scones and cream, imported tea( US teabags are awful!) and cucumber sandwiches! We even found a band to play the national anthem! Then we held the commemorative cricket match... which the UK team lost!
‘ There are only eight British families based here, around 30“ internationals” and 6000 Americans, so we had slim pickings for players! My British Army officer husband is an ECB coach in the UK and has loved cricket all his life, so he was determined that while we were posted here away from our home in Wiltshire for two years he would teach the Americans what they were missing. Most hadn ' t even heard of the game and held the bat above their heads à la baseball! Those who had heard of it certainly didn ' t know most of the Laws and Rules! But, the 12-over match( cut short from 20 as we were under a tornado watch!) was played in great spirits and sadly, largely thanks to the Pakistani and Australian element of the Rest of the World team, the Brits were beaten.
‘ At the end of the match we invited the players to make a donation to our chosen charities if they wanted to keep their kit, and we raised over $ 1000 to be split between Help For Heroes( H4H) and the Wounded Warrior Project( the US equivalent of H4H).
‘ Thank you so much for your support.’
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