Author: Not Out

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts (Ian Fleming) The game ends with a win for the fielding side. I a...

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. (W Somerset Maugham) It was one of those Saturdays where Mrs Umps pulled rank on the car for her occasio...

Who Can It Be Now? (Men at Work) Profiling the cast of League Cricket, The Musical (second in a series) The Scorers In twelve years of umpiring I have yet to en...

It was a sign of low-rent origins, of inferior social status, of poor choice. (Tom Wolfe) Before I became an official Level 1 Association of Cricket Officials (...

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. (George Orwell) I have a vivid memory of watching my first live baseball match at Shea Stadium,...

God, I hate judgmental people. They’re so mean…and fat.  (John R. Lindensmith) One of my earlier cricket memories was watching the late Harry Pillin...

I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in good ship with a bad captain. (Mehmet Murat ildan) Mike Brearley demonstrated that you do...

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. (Booth Tarkington). A few months ago while having dinner with Mrs Umps and our younger 20-year-old son, I r...

Summertime will be a love-in there. (Scott McKenzie) It was good to get a few games of cricket during the pandemic. (Note to self, possible opening line of a no...

What was our life like? I almost don’t remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly. (Richard Ford) From an early...