Film 7: Respect the Umpires and Scorers

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• Play the video ‘Respect the umpires and scorers’ and ask the question why are umpires/scorers so important to the game?
• What skills do umpires and scorers need?
• What happens if we do not respect the umpire’s decision?
• Look at some umpiring signals
• Test the groups’ umpiring signals?
• What is the role of the scorer? How can the scorer help the team?
• Teach the class to score using Kwik Cricket Score Sheets (Link Here)
• Apart from keeping the score what else to scorers do? Link to class work on averages. Look at score charts etc
• Let class have a go at umpiring and scoring

Supporting Information

• Umpires are very important in the game of cricket because they have to make some very difficult decision and without the umpires there could be no game
• Nobody gets every decision correct in life, so how can the umpires?
• Respect of the umpire makes the game possible to play
• The umpire doesn’t mind if the player asks why the decision was not given as out as long as they respect that decision
• If you are given out and you feel you were not out, respect the decision and just walk off the field
• The scorer monitors everything that goes on in the game and the records they keep become history and last forever, not just for that afternoon
• Scoring is the way that many youngsters learn the game and it is good for your maths