Are You Ready to Call PLAY

The principle of the Are You Ready to Call PLAY Programme is to help umpires coming straight from a training course to officiating their first few competitive games, It was developed as the result of observations of those taking that path in previous seasons.

It may also be a useful revision exercise following a long winter layoff.

During the event you will stand in a non-competitive game, normally a pre-season friendly with other participants along with experienced umpires who have been selected for their coaching skills. You will also have the opportunity to watch from the boundary with one of your counties experienced mentors.

These two documents will be of useful reading.

In the meantime contact your County Development Officer

Umpire Training 2026 Season

Counties within the South Central Region of the ACO, have initiated various CPD programme to run through the 2026 season to enable our officials to exercise their minds.

There are a number of CPD  modules that are available by pressing the link below for you to use at your leisure.

Also each County will be setting up and run CPD Workshops dealing with specific subjects and/ or targeted at specific audiences.
Press the link below to find out more::

Berkshire Cricket Officials Association (BCOA)
Committed to the Development and Support of Umpires & Scorers in Berkshire

These Training pages contain details of all courses known in our neighbouring counties.
For completeness the buttons below provide  links to their Websites