At least I get to umpire a game of cricket on Saturday. ( Wouldn't it be ironic if having gone through the first football season in some 40 years without one round being washed out the first days play is curtailed because of rain!!)
This season is a first for me. I usually umpire for the local association as they start on the second Saturday of September but this season The Northern District Cricket Association ( NDCA) and the North Shore Cricket Association ( NSCA) will have 6 divisions of cricket including the usual two turf competitions.
Mysteriously the NSCA do not start until after the October long weekend. Thus no matches to umpire until this Saturday.
For the first time in its history the Shires umpires now have more umpires than matches and I have one of the newbies on Saturday. It seems only yesterday I was umpiring my first game at Lane cove and having to call a 'bowler' for throwing'
I mostly umpire in D grade and this is usually well behaved. I put this down as teams are made up young boys with potential and some old experienced hands.
There is only one problem with umpiring. The weather is usually too hot. What happened to getting old and feeling the cold. It seems the opposite is occurring to me. Once the sun is out in Sydanee you can wear a T shirt even in winter.
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