TWO senior members of West Indies Umpires Cricket Association (WICUA) will play leading roles in the Canada Cricket Umpires Association’s (CCUA) annual seminar which gets underway today, starting at 13:00hrs. Unlike previous years, the programmes will be done virtually via Zoom.
WICUA Secretary Vivian Johnson and Committee Training Chairman Peter Nero will form part of the three-man lecturing team which also includes CCUA Secretary Azad Khan. The seven-week seminar runs until Saturday, April 24 with each session scheduled for three hours.
Power point presentations will be used for most of the sessions which pertain to the Laws of Cricket while all seminars and examinations will be based on the 2017 Code of Laws of Cricket (updated 2019). The CCUA was forced to abort last year’s programme following the intervention of the COVID-19 pandemic which also saw no examinations – including the West Indies versions – being held.
While the CCUA is working on the modalities of holding its internal exams this year, the association is still awaiting word from the WICUA as to the way forward, as far as the West Indies exams are concerned. CCUA president Albert Ramcharran will open today’s session.