Cricket

1. The Laws of Cricket

1.1. controlled by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)

1.2. There are 42 Laws of cricket as of the latest edition of the lawbook (2019)

1.3. Bodyline series- bowling to try and hurt the batter, all dangerous beamers and bouncers, caused the laws to be changed in 1935 to prevent this happening again.

2. Mental Health Affecting Players and officials

2.1. Social media

2.2. support for players now vs in the past

2.3. The Edge (2019)

2.4. Marcus Trescothick-"Anxiety problems are seen as a weakness. People tell you pull yourself together, but it is an illness, it is not something you make up.

2.5. Sarah Taylor (England women's wicketkeeper-batter)- announced her retirement from cricket early due to anxiety and her bad mental health affecting her cricket performance.

2.6. Andrew Flintoff (depression during long tours and over drinking etc), David Bairstow (committed suicide).

2.7. Kevin Pieterson after England defeated the Aussies in the 2005 Ashes ended up mentally fatigued wishing to become injured to avoid playing.

2.8. Monty Panesar suffered from paranoid voices in his head.

2.9. Jonathan Trott would punish himself by letting balls hit him at 95mph during training.

3. Women in Cricket

3.1. Claire Polosak-first women to umpire a men's ODI 27th April 2019

3.2. Claire Polosak- first on-field female umpire to officiate a men's domestic game in Australia

4. My personal umpiring experience as a 17 year old female umpire

4.1. The courses I completed during lockdown (level 1 and 2)

4.2. BBC Radio Sheffield x2 (Dickie Bird)

4.3. BBC Look North (Richard Kettleborough)

4.4. My first game, South vs West Yorkshire under 13 boys.

4.5. Mistakes I've made and the pressures I feel

4.6. Being welcomed as an official

5. Umpires

5.1. The word umpire is old French, meaning not a peer/ impartial

5.2. originally called noumper (1350), noounpier (1425)

6. The history of cricket

6.1. 1811-first recorded women's county match (Surrey vs Hampshire)

6.2. 1934-First Women's Test Match, Aus vs Eng at Brisbane

6.3. 1973-First Women's world cup

6.4. 1976-First women's match at Lords

7. Cricket Scandals

7.1. Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Strauss' relationship ending in Pietersen's exile from the sport

7.2. Muttiah Muralitharan's No-ball in Australia, Boxing Day 1995

7.3. Trevor Chappell's underarm ball, final ball of a one-day match against New Zealand in Melbourne in 1981

7.4. Shane Warne's drug scandal.

7.5. Bodyline series between Australia and England in 1932-33, in 1935 MCC changed the laws to prevent this happening again

7.6. Sandpaper Gate (2018)

8. Wisden (Cricketers Almanack 2020)

8.1. The women Wisden missed page 200

8.2. ECB's plan for women's cricket page 1482

8.3. Minority Report, Women at MCC page 40

8.4. Cricket and Gender, A fraught battleground page 91

8.5. Cross checking, cricket and the laws page 164

9. The basics of cricket/ umpiring

9.1. International Cricket council (ICC)

9.2. ACU&S formed 1955, merged to form ECB ACO 1st January 2008

9.3. Two umpires on a pitch (most of the time), one at square leg one at the bowlers end.