On 29/08/2011 13:08, Dave Cornwell wrote:
I normally field in a
"run saving" position where you are either moving to field the ball
if hit towards you or moving to "back up" a throw if hit the other
side. This can get a bit wearing in 30C heat, while in a summer like
the one just about gone you can "give it your all".
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You won't be saying that in a few years when you end up in the slips
with your hands in your pockets to keep them warm ;-)
Dave

The way I catch, they may as well be there as anywhere else...

But I "run warm" anyway. If it's cold I might wear a "T" shirt under my
playing shirt. If it's really cold I might wear a long-sleeved
undershirt as well - but that doesn't average as much as once a season.
In five years of playing I have never worn a sweater on the field of
play - and that includes occasions when some of our keen young players
have worn "hoodies" for their umpiring stints.

It also has to be said that it is not as cold as it used to be -
especially early in the season. In my youth and early adulthood I can
remember some seriously bitter weather in May - including one occasion
when I umpired in a parka and another occasion when the pavilion
thermometer showed a resolute 5C on a sunny afternoon with a bitter
northerly wind. Round our part of the world (the New Forest), this sort
of thing just doesn't happen now. In fact, it is now not unknown for it
to be warm enough in February to cycle to an evening meeting in shorts
and T-shirt - you woudn't have done that much in the 1960s and 70s.

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