A Cricket Conundrum
Noel Coward once famously sang ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun’. When I first heard this way back when Sunday cricket was relatively new, I remember asking my father what it meant. When he explained, I remember looking confused and promptly went back to playing with my toys. After all, I had a plan to achieve world domination before I was 10 years old! Many years later, and there I am umpiring my two daughters in a cricket game whilst exposing my pale English skin to the mid-day sun. You see, I had been roped into umpiring the under 13’s girls T20 game at one of Sydney’s many cricketing ovals. I suppose in reality I was slow to react when the coach asked who wanted to umpire the game. Almost immediately all the Dad’s at the game started answering their phones, even though I personally didn’t hear them ring. Others started heading to their cars at a rather swift pace. I was literally the last man standing and before I knew it I had the new shiny red che