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How many of englands cricked board are BAME? How many of the England test squad? Its like saying women aren’t held back in the workplace because lots are middle managers!

Easy to join a club or set up your own. Hard to force yourself into the old boys club. Also come to the shires and you’ll struggle to find a black player in some leagues.

I mean you could use both stats and the refereeing figures are pretty bad… Also yes class is a big factor and race is tied up in that!

We would have positive action in favour of white people if there were any evidence of them being a disadvantaged group that faces barriers BASED ON THEIR RACE.

But the top of cricket is 99% white, playing at grassroots is accessible. Accessing the sport beyond club level administration (basically once you start to interact with those very white institutions like ECB or CFAs) is much harder and that shows by the fact BAME people and women make up a good...

Cricket another great example of an institution that’s old school. Playing a sport is easier because you require little to no interaction with the governing body that’s usually a few decades behind social change - officiating is the opposite. Have you got an actual better solution than positive...

Because those people face other barriers that the majority does not! There’s no shortage of working class white men in refereeing but in proportion to players we are massively underrepresented in BAME. My experience as a player and referee is that refereeing is a much more old school...

Oh so income then, where do you cut it off? 20k? 30? And it’s not an issue of economics, although BAME communities are poorer, but rather barriers and they’re simply removing the one they have control over.

So discriminating based on class is okay but not anything else?

Yes, improved representation does improve unconscious bias in a group. The most discrimination tends to come from homogenous groups (see xenophobia in east Asia for example). It’s removing one barrier from a group that faces lots of other barriers that white people do not (lack of role models at...

I imagine because the BAME population skews younger and therefore should be overrepresented in terms of playing proportion compared to overall population

“More than ever” could mean 10 instead of 1 per year. Not that they’d suddenly well on their way to 50%. The wording is to encourage unsure applications, it says to them “come on, it’s not just you, loads of women can and do become referees”. Easier to be a joiner than a trailblazer.

I suggest this to player re: encroachment and none of them seem to get it

Whilst I feel the officiating has been very "soft" this tournament, which I haven't enjoyed as a fan - I think the football has suffered. Credit to the Croatian referee for her consistency on these "soft" fouls - even the penalty

hence why I'm not really on my soapbox about it because generally I don't find CFAs take the P with fees and charges.

I don't know anything about the costs FA's have with putting these courses on but it does exclude potential referees by charging so much. Even just cutting down from 150 to 100 allows them to buy some kit or something with the saving!

Sorry I hoped the emoji would communicate the joke! If anything I have too much personality!

Yet more bias against us autistic referees 🤖

A cheap suit will set you back less than these tracksuits the manufacturers sell!

Honestly, it depends! If you're in an area with a lot of WNL clubs and very few 3Ws then expect to be busy. I'd usually fill 3/4 of my availability last season. They try to go close, furthest I went was 60 miles (each way) but usually around 40 (which is the mileage cap handily!) I found these...