To be sure, it's going to be better than working in an office Steve!

Another busman’s holiday for ECB umpire.

PTG Eeditor.

Saturday, 23 September 2017.

PTG 2256-11426.

Steven O’Shaughnessy, a long-time member of the England and Wales Cricket Board’s top umpiring panel, will again be spending a large part of the English winter in Sydney, and whilst there is expected to spend some of his time standing in the Sydney Cricket Association's (SCA) Premier League club competition. O’Shaughnessy, 56, who made his first class debut as an umpire in April 2009 after playing at that level from 1980-89, was on-field in eleven SCA games during a four-month stint in Sydney last austral summer.

During the current English season, which has so far run for a total of 176 days, O’Shaughnessy spent a total of 73 of them standing in 41 matches.  Of those 13 were first class fixtures, 5 List A games, 16 county Twenty20s (4 being as the television umpire), five Womens’ Super League League T20s, 4 county second XI one layers, and two Under-19 One Day Internationals.

In addition to ten and a half weeks directly supporting games, there would have also been many others spent travelling as the matches he was appointed to involved him criss crossing England and Wales multiple times.  Grounds his matches were played at were in places such as: Blackpoll, Bristol, Chester-le-Street, Hove, Scarborough and Southport, twice to Birmingham, Canterbury, Chelmsford, Leeds, Leicester, Manchester and Southampton, three times each to Derby and Nottingham, London four times and Cardiff five.

So after all that, and following the end of the county season week, its off to the warmth of a Sydney summer for O’Shaughnessy and yet more cricket,.