Name: Ben Cousins Role at Club: League Umpire Nickname(s): Ben is an Umpire, Umpire, Ben is an Umpire Umpire Umpire Years at the club: 6 years Fact no one will know about you: Despite being Irish I have never been to Dublin. 1. Who do your umpire for? I umpire in the Home Counties Premier League, Regional Appointments in the South Central Region and National Appointments, previously I did a lot of games through YO’s (Young Officials) but have since outgrown that scheme now whilst still being under the age of 25. Hopefully with a good 2021 I will be pushing on to the national panel. 2. How long have you been umpiring for? I did my level 1, when I was 15 and then having been doing bits and bobs since then but taken it seriously in the last 5 years. 3. How did you get into umpiring? An accident, I was helping out and officiating my brother’s games and the club offered to pay for me to go on a course, there I met a gentleman called Alan English who got me involved with the YO’s and has really mentored me over the last 8 years. Meeting people of the same age and who were good blokes, shout out to David Tooth, Ben Pev and Sam, really changed my perception of it and as I was never going to make it as a player, I thought this was a great way to invest my time to hopefully end up it being my career. 4. What is your proudest umpiring moment? Proud of a lot of the things I have achieved, it is quite cool seeing people you have umpired playing first class cricket, Jack Haynes, Jordan Cox, Dan Mousley etc. hopefully some of them will go on to play for England. 5. What do you hope to achieve in umpiring? To be on the first class panel. 6. What one thing would you change about cricket? Probably quite a lot, but one for article would be more behind the scenes things need to change for people interests and encouraging young people to get involved with the game, at the moment though it would just be able to go to Lords/the Oval for a t20 with the fella’s and have a drink. Ben Cousins (far right) picture here with Josh De Caires (Current Middlesex CCC player and son of former England Captain and opening batsmen Michael Atherton) 2nd in from the left and Joey Evison (Current Nottinghamshire CC player) 2nd from the left.
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