The Autumn touring season is especially busy this year for Malta Cricket with six sides visiting the island. This week both Saracens and Clarendon Cricket Clubs will be here and will be playing against Marsa as well as playing a match against each other.

Malta Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers (MACU & S) are providing the officials in charge of all the matches drawn from a panel appointed for the games.

Four MACU & S members, Wally Glynn, John Appleyard, Pierre Naudi and Phillip Gibbs will be assisted by five experienced umpires from the UK. Donald MacLeod is a Middlesex County League umpire as well as umpiring for the MCC the most prestigious club in the world, Steve Ross umpires in the Rutland and Cambridgeshire League, Mike Heritage is the Deputy Training Officer for the South East Region of the

ACU & S in England, David Rawlinson umpires in the Northumberland Premier League and from Wales comes Simon Green who umpires in the South Wales League.

From 9 to 11 November, after the touring season, Malta ACU & S is organising a weekend umpiring training course which will qualify successful participants to umpire anywhere in the world.

The Course director will be Graham Cooper who is the European Umpires Consultant responsible for all umpires training throughout Europe.

This course is already oversubscribed but if anyone interested in cricket feels they would like to take up umpiring they are invited to make contact via the Malta Crick Association website www.maltacricket.biz