The Times is running several features on the often unappreciated role of the 'scorer.' It appears that all is not well among the practitioners of this numerically-inclined profession.

The art of the scorer is one steeped in history

Men of stats attack

the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians

Thanks for this moderator. As a long-time club cricket scorer and can feel their pain. All I ever got for the many hours I put in was free "tea."

It's difficult to imagine scorers getting militant.
Perhaps they could withdraw their labour - the game would struggle without them. I always assumed they were rewarded in the same way as umpires.

i used to score for the club first team as a kid. In the late 70s we were paid £1.10 a game (10p a player chipping in) and got a free tea, most of which were unpalatable as by the time the players and spectators had devoured the decent stuff and the scorers had worked their way over from the scoreboard (usually on the opposite side of the ground) there was nothing decent left. Used to spend the £1.10 away from the ground buying a decent tea!

Now the scorer at our club gets about £15 a match and some of them show signs of over-exuberance after a bank holiday weekend when they have done 3 games.

The scorers have just wangled an extra 5 minutes on the intervals in the one day game so they can fill in their books more carefully. I wonder how many times they have written a dismissal in the book only for the player to then refer to the 3rd umpire and the decision is reversed so it messes up their neat and tidy entry?

Can Yorkshire's be far behind?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article6903517.ece

Interesting stuff. As a long-time cricket scorer and can feel their pain.

AW

Keith Booth, the Surrey scorer, has two complaints which he is airing in public. Firstly, he and his fellow Surrey scorers appear to have not yet received their dues for scoring the World Twenty20 matches at The Oval. Secondly, he has resigned from the Association of County Cricket Scorers because he wants that body to institute courses and examinations for potential county scorers whereas the Association are quite happy to let the ECB Association of Cricket Officials to implement courses at that level in the next year or so. Accordingly, Mr Booth has resigned from the Association

I have it on very good authority that both the Yorkshire-appointed scorers received their fees from their County so, I would guess, that neither of them will be resigning on this point. On the second point, both scorers are quite happy with the Association's stance on the question of courses and examinations and see no point of resigning from that body for that reason