The Club Cricket Conference Yearbook 2020

- 15 - 15. Ladies toilets will remain closed so I suggest you bring a wide necked bottle. 16. The Home side will take the field and all will wear sanitized gloves except the wicket-keeper who will wear traditional wicket-keeping gloves duly sanitized. 17. The Home Umpire will remove from his pocket a sanitised orange Reader ball and toss it to the bowler. 18. The bowler will remove one glove from his bowling hand and procced to his mark. 19. The Umpire will not carry the bowler’s jumper or hat so whatever the weather it will be best to leave these items in your kit bag. 20. The non-striker will stand away whilst the Umpire gives his partner a guard. 21. The Umpire will then retreat 6 yards back from the stumps so as not to be near the bowler when he approaches the crease. 22. If the bowler has an exceptionally long run he can bend his run round the Umpire and have enough time to straighten his run before releasing the ball. 23. Being 28 yards from the batsman may give the Umpire problems when deciding on an LBW shout. He may have doubts, think it going down the leg-side, not be sure if the batsman hit it or maybe just give a decision based on guesswork. This scenario is the only thing that won’t change as a result of the virus. 24. At the end of the over the ball shall be returned to the Umpire and the bowler will leave the field of play to put a sanitised glove on his bowling hand. This may take a while so a substitute fielder will take his place also wearing sanitised gloves. When ready the bowler can return to the field of play during an over. 25. The wicket-keeper will stand 6 feet back which will make stumpings more problematical. The keeper will also wear a sanitised protector which may make his eyes water initially. 26. First slip will be third slip, second slip will be gully and gully will be deep point. There will be no square leg. 27. Only one fielder will be allowed to chase the ball at any one time. 28. Fielding with the boot is allowed provided the boots have been sanitised before entering the field of play. 29. In the unlikely event of one of our bowlers taking a wicket there will be no ludicrous high fives or back slapping, just ‘well bowled Charlie, well caught Bert’ or ‘see what happens when you bowl it straight Keith’. 30. The use of saliva on the ball is not allowed. Sweat is also banned but the chance of our bowlers working up a sweat is unlikely. 31. The Umpire, after calling over, will move to square leg at the same time sanitising his pebbles or counter. 32. After 10 overs the scorers, who are social distancing the other side of the ground, will shout ’10 overs’. The batsmen and fielding side will leave the field to replace their batting gloves, fielding gloves and wicket-keeping gloves although the