List of Social Media sources that may be of interest to Cricket Umpires and Scorers. (as at 21:00 Thu28jan21)
The Close Call : A community for all sports officials - a facebook group with regular online seminars
with unique guests from the world of sport with a
focus on officiating. Click here for a longer explanation.
Play-Cricket Scorer Pro Forum.
You will need to join this Google Group before gaining access.
This group is for the Play-Cricket Scorer Pro community to help
each other, express their views and ideas, ask questions and provide
answers.
Playing The Game: is a daily extract of press articles relevant to the umpiring, scoring
and referees community - mainly stories about International and First
Class topics but includes recreational material when available.
Published in Australia but covers worldwide.
You may also like to join the Google Discussion Group – just visit https://groups.google.com and search for play-cricket-scorer-pro
You
can also set up an Alert in Google which will give you a daily list of
every posting contining the words "cricket" and "umpire" - I am not
sure how I did it and I do find it contains a lot of less interesting
material.
Another useful link for scorers is Cricket Scorers Untallied who appear on Apple Podcast / Spotify / Stitcher - also on Twitter.
They also have an audio file on PC - www.listennotes.com/podcasts/cricket-scorers-untallied-scorers-untallied-B0tcFHZod5l/
You may also like to visit http://www.notchers.co.uk/ which sends out a quarterly newsletter for scorers.
Acumen News:
is a monthly (approximately) newsletter with hints and tips about
umpiring and scoring with some special offers from Acumen Books. View a recent edition.
Nompere Bulletin / Discussion Board
is open to everyone to post their questions, news and other points of
view for discussion - subject to normal rules of public decency.
The Third Team supports soccer referees: a weekly newsletter providing them with awareness on all things related to
Resilience to enhance Performance and improve Mental Health. They are happy to share material with Cricket Umpires