ARNOLD Madella has been retained as President of the Toronto Cricket Umpires & Scorers Association (TCU&SA) when that entity held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) last Sunday which saw the entire executive board being re-elected.

Rohan Shaw continues to serve as vice-president while Bijal Patel and Edsel Mitchell maintains their respective posts of secretary and assistant secretary/treasurer respectively. Treasurer Tushar Thakar completes in the executive body.

The Awards Committee is chaired by Shaukat Darsot, Scheduling – Harish Shivana, Ethics – Edward Thanjaratnam and Education – Guyana-born Ashook Brijcoomar.
In his presidential report, Madella took the opportunity to thank all the members for their continuous support to the association. He described last year as being very busy. “In addition to our regular season, our members participated in the National Championship and some international tournaments held in Toronto.”

Madella told the members that this is the time to prepare themselves mentally and physically for the much anticipated very busy upcoming season.

The president advised the gathering that “educational seminars are planned to start from the first week of March. “I strongly insist that each member should attend these seminars as a refresher of laws and playing conditions.”

Vice-president Rohan Shaw, who was unavoidably absent, pointed out in his report, First of all, thank you all for trusting me and giving me the opportunity to serve as a team, “we worked on various matters and made this season very successful. It was a great pleasure to be part of this dedicated team.

Shaw said that association’s education seminars have been very successful and it was great to work with the Education Committee chair and be a part of a team to conduct seminars.

Secretary Patel showered praise on chairman of the Education Committee Brijcoomar who he said had once again done great job for organising and conducting Educational Seminars between March and May 2024.

Brijcoomar advised that this year’s training will commence on March 2 and goes until May 4. He encouraged all umpires to attend the upcoming classes so that they can all be up to date with the laws and playing conditions for all formats and divisions.