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ACCA HIT & RUNS INSIDE THIS ISSUE
TROPICAL STORM ERIKA Page 1 CARIBBEAN CUP AGM & 2016 DRAW Page 2 UPCOMING EVENTS ECB SURVEY Page 3 TRAINING THE CARIBBEAN PIONEERS Page 4-11 DATA SECURITY Page 12 VOLUNTEERING IN SPORTS Page 14-15 LONDON COMBINED 2016 TOUR Page 15
Tropical storm Erika The ACCA with the support of the member clubs that participated in the 2015 season’s Caribbean Cup Cricket Competition together with the help and generosity of spectators who attended some of the matches; in particular the semi-final and final and the presentation dance collecte £525.00 (Five hundred pounds sterling) in donations for the appeal to raise funds to aid the recovery from the devastation caused by tropical storm Erika to the Caribbean island of Dominica. These funds have now been presented to the High Commissioner of Dominica. As mentioned in our last newsletter we approached Surrey County Cricket Club and requested their support. Surrey CCC has kindly donated a cricket bat signed by squad members of last season’s Division II, London Victoria (LV) sponsored County Champions who were also losing finalist in the Royal London national one day competition. A cricket bat signed by the England cricket team was also donated by the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB). In the above , our chairman presenting Her Excellency Mrs Janet Charles with a cheque for the first tranche of the donation.
Additional photographs will be posted on our website. If you wish to London High Commissioner of Dominica’s office, please refer to the contact details below: [email protected] +44207 370 1533 Or the office of the Dominica High Commissioner at: Tel: +4420 7370 5194 Fax: +4420 7373 8743 [email protected]
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CARIBBEAN CUP COMPETITION AGM AND 2016 SEASON DRAW The AGM and draw for the fixtures of the 2016 season competition is scheduled to take place on Sunday January 31st beginning at 13:00. The venue is Maysbrook Park, Lodge Avenue, Barking, Essex, RM8 2JR. Full details are posted on the events calendar on the ACCA’s website, or may be referenced at http://africancaribbeancricket.com/event/caribcupagm/ It is anticipated that additional clubs will join the competition this season and therefore increase the number of participating teams to ten or twelve. The primary objective of the competition has shifted somewhat from providing Caribbean centric recreational cricket teams with an alternative competition to the now defunct Clive Lloyd cup competition. Greater emphasis is on attracting more of the community's youth to participate in the game and to re-invigorate an interest from spectators; parents, siblings, former cricketers and the uninitiated to get involved in the game. The Caribbean Cup is also a vehicle which is being used to support a revolutionary change amongst African Caribbean centric cricket clubs. Historically most were formed as wandering teams, content with travelling across the country to fulfil fixtures which were offered to them. Unfortunately it seems that the youth of our community do not wish to continue this method; they want the opportunity to play at least fifty percent of their fixtures at grounds where they are able to host the opposition and have their family, friends and in some cases young children present. The main challenges here are a general lack of availability of grounds for hire and where a ground is available for hire it is outside their budget. African Caribbean Cricket clubs are virtually being priced out. The communities youth cannot afford membership or match fees required to support hiring of pitches and all the other associated costs. The ACCA will therefore proposing to work closely with the management team (committee) of the Caribbean Cup to secure a sponsor who is willing to finance the competition or a group of sponsors who are willing to sponsor individual participating member teams. Full details of this initiative are still to be documented. I hope to have a draft for presentation at the AGM to the member clubs. UPCOMING EVENTS Jan 31 CARIBBEAN CUP COMPETITION AGM Mar 16 - April 14 LONDON COMBINED 2016 JAMAICA TOUR , See Page 15 Mar ACCA AGM (DATE TO BE CONFIRMED) May 2 MAYOR OF MERTON CHARITY CRICKET MATCH Jul 31 EMANCIPATION DAY CRICKET MATCH AUG 7 HOLLY SINCKLER CHARITIES
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ECB SURVEY REPORT 2015 has been a great year for club cricket and here are just a few standout achievements
❏ 2,276 clubs took part in NatWest CricketForce ❏ £2.5 million was distributed to 801 clubs through
the Small Grants Scheme, supported by Waitrose ❏ Nearly 200 clubs signed up to deliver activity part of
the This Girl Can...Play Cricket initiative ❏ 1,240 clubs delivered a Club Open Day attracting
over 50,000 people to local cricket clubs ❏ Over 450 clubs participating in the NatWest U19
Club T20 competition, with more than 1000 matches being played over the summer
❏ Furthermore in 2015 ECB's recreational initiative Get the Game On launched and ensured :
❏ 198 League Campaign managers were recruited to support local activity
❏ 6% more fixtures were played in 2015 compared to 2014
❏ 32 leagues changed their start time ❏ 15 leagues reduced their travel time ❏ 3 leagues changed their wet weather rules
Other highlights include the new ECB guidelines for safety helmets, flood support guidance and Cricket is Listening. Cricket is listening: 77% OF PLAYERS ARE HAPPY WITH A 1 O’CLOCK START 79% OF PLAYERS ARE HAPPY WITH A 7 O’CLOCK FINISH 67% OF PLAYERS ARE HAPPY WITH A 30 MINUTE JOURNEY 75% OF PLAYERS ARE HAPPY WITH 40 OVERS 64% OF PLAYERS AGREE THAT BETTER AND MORE ACCESSIBLE PLAYING STATISTICS ENCOURAGES THEM TO PLAY MORE 1 in 2 PLAYERS SAY THEY HAVE SEEN GAMES CANCELLED OR ABANDONED THAT COULD HAVE BEEN PLAYED 50% OF PLAYERS LIKE THE IDEA OF A PLAYER POOL If the players at your club want change, we would like you to represent their views in league meetings and vote for the cricket players want to play in the future. If you would like to view or download the League Blueprint click below www.getthegameon.co.uk/blueprint
TRAINING
SURREY COUNTY CRICKET BOARD Coach Support Worker (CSW) training course has been offered by Surrey Cricket Foundation to BAME’s. “This course is designed to help to develop your confidence and equip you with the knowledge, understanding and applied skills to assist a qualified coach in a coaching session and create a safe, enjoyable and welcoming player-centred environment.” Who Should Attend?
Individuals wishing to assist under the direct supervision of
ECB qualified coaches in the delivery of high quality practical
cricket coaching sessions within a club environment.
Commitment
● Attend a 6 hour workshop
● Safeguarding Young Cricketers
Pre-Requisites for Certification
● Aged 16 years at least to begin the course.
● Current DBS
Generally costing £52.50, the course will be delivered free. An
initial charge of £20.00 to ensure commitment applies.
Date: March 5, 2016 Venue: Aspire Centre, Southfields, 337 Merton Road, London SW18 5JU Coaching Bursary ECB has identified that there is underrepresentation in the coaching workforce of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) coaches. Working with the Equality and Human Rights Commission, ECB have been able to access funding and therefore bursaries are available to individuals from these backgrounds. In order to apply for the bursary, which would be £250, please complete the attached form and return to Sarah Matthews via email –[email protected].
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THE CARIBBEAN PIONEERS INTRODUCTION
While attending a 60th Anniversary Dinner and Dance of a south London cricket club at the Holiday Inn in the Bloomsbury suburb of London during April 2015, in the presence of John Shepherd, formerly of Kent CCC and Alf Langley, a former champion batsman of Shepherds Bush CC (Current Chairman of the Club Cricket Conference) and of whom Carl Rackemann the former Australian fast bowler said was ”the hardest hitting batsman he ever played against “.
It dawned on me that the Caribbean cricket-loving public had completely forgotten or not heard of the contributions made by a number of unsung heroes of Caribbean birth to English County first class cricket. I am referring here not to the likes of Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Andy Roberts, Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Richie Richardson, Sir Curtley Ambrose, Desmond Haynes, Wayne Daniels, Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd, Deryck Murray, Sylvester Clarke, Brian Lara and Shivnarine Chanderpaul, but to cricketers who had not played first class in the Caribbean before appearing in the English first class games.
In this short article I will concentrate on such players as Danny Livingstone (Antigua), Wes Stewart (Jamaica), Carlton Forbes (Jamaica), Tony Cordle (Barbados), Harry Latchman (Jamaica), John Holder (Barbados) and Dennis Marriott (Jamaica). Undoubtedly there are many more players than the above-mentioned, but please accept my apologies if I have not mentioned one of your countrymen. These cricketers had one thing in common apart from being born in the Caribbean. They or their parents had ventured to the United Kingdom to seek regular employment and thus their ‘promised fortune’ in the land that was paved with gold.
FIRST CLASS CRICKET IN THE CARIBBEAN
To play first class cricket in the larger Caribbean islands in the 1950s until relatively recently, one had to have graduated from one of the island’s elite secondary schools and be not too dark in colour.
Racism, colourism and classism ruled on the shores of those islands. The cricketing culture of the colonial and post-colonial periods included deference to class, colour and race at the expense of any ability to play the game. However, for the majority of those eager to play first class cricket in England, it was ‘from the frying pan of the Caribbean and into the fire of England’.
TOO MUCH TO CHEW
In the process of trying to complete the aforementioned task, I quickly realised that the general cricketing public may be unaware of the numerous difficult non-cricketing and cricketing factors that had to be overcome by these ‘Caribbean pioneers’ in order to be successful in the County games, i.e. first and second team County cricket.
As the facts presented themselves, it became obvious that I could not produce one short article covering so many cricketers. More realistically, since I wanted the article to be read primarily by the members of the African Caribbean Cricket Association in our newsletter, the article has to be a short one. The organisation does not have the resources to publish lengthy articles on a regular basis.
Hence I decided on this occasion to feature Danny Livingstone, hoping that in the near future I can write about the other mentioned ‘Caribbean pioneers’ or any such who I may have failed to mention herein.
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THE FIRE OF ENGLAND
On my arrival in England in the summer of 1962 there were very few players of Caribbean birth playing professional first class county cricket. I suppose it was a similar situation as today where players of Caribbean birth or Caribbean heritage are in short supply in first class County cricket.
I can vividly recall that the first of the players on the above-mentioned list that I read about in the sports pages of the national newspapers was Diantes Abbia ‘Danny’ Livingstone who played for Hampshire County Cricket Club from 1959, aged 26 years old, which was a relatively advanced age to start a career as a county cricketer.
In those bygone days, overseas-born players had to complete a qualifying period of at least two years’ residence in their adopted county before being allowed to represent that county in first class cricket. My recollection of Danny Livingstone is that he was the typical English county professional batsman. In cricketing terms he was a left-handed ‘nicker and nudger’. He played few aggressive strokes and preserved his wicket ‘at all cost’.
Those of you familiar with the Caribbean batting style during the 1950s and 1960s would know it was the opposite to that played by Danny Livingstone. Therefore in order to be accepted as a paid cricketer, Danny Livingstone had to change his style of play.
He had adopted the ‘cautious, canny technique of English batsmen, who founded their game upon the supposition that every ball is to be mistrusted, and a half volley is probably a trap’. Had he been playing in Antigua instead of England, he would have more likely than not heard the following: “Where have all the shots gone?” “Oh man, you are not an Englishman.” However, English first class players had to produce good figures to satisfy the county cricket committees at the end of their employment period in order to be retained for the following season(s).
WET WICKET (STICKY DOG)
Danny’s batting also had to be tempered because of the surfaces he had to play on. For sixty percent (60%) of the cricket season he was confronted with wet wickets. Although such wickets are uncommon today, since most wickets in the professional game are now covered. The wickets were uncovered throughout the entirety of Danny’s first class cricket career. The wet or sticky wicket sometimes affectionately called ‘the sticky dog’ for the uninitiated was damp or soft pitched. Such wickets can be affected by both rain and sun because the bounce of the ball is usually unpredictable making batting difficult. A damp wicket caused by rain would become increasingly difficult to bat on as it dried.
As you can imagine, such surfaces were a far cry from those Danny learned his game on in the Caribbean which were hard, fast, covered wickets. To survive and even more so, to prosper on the county cricket circuit, Danny had to remodel his game. He had to acquire a new technique for the ‘new’ surface. Most of the professional teams had bowlers who relished the ‘sticky dog’ and would exploit the conditions to their full advantage. They would have developed their bowling actions etc. to fully utilise the conditions. It must have been a great challenge to Danny, which one can safely say he successfully navigated, since he had a long professional career with Hampshire County Cricket Club.
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THE BRITISH CLASS SYSTEM
Danny undoubtedly had to contend with the burning issues of the time in the cricket fraternity relating to the professional and amateur in the English county cricket structure. Officially until November 1962, but in reality towards the very end of that decade, there were demarcation lines drawn between amateurs and professionals in the first class game.
“The amateurs had always been an elite brigade whose background of public school and/or university gave them little in common with the professional players other than the game itself.” Consequently, amateurs usually kept their own company, often in different hotels, travelling first class on railways, while the professionals went third class and at most county grounds had the use of a separate dressing room.
Everything was done within the game to provide the amateurs with the privileged touches they normally received outside it, and no one complained, certainly not the professionals who relished the presence of the amateurs as long as their leaders were worth following.
“The professional player was happy not to carry the responsibilities of running his County's cricket.” However, after professionals like H E Dollery in 1949, and then Len Hutton in 1952 captained Warwickshire County Cricket Club and the England Test team respectively, it was realised that their elevation reflected the changing times.
On 26th November 1962 it was decided “that all players in first class cricket should in future be called cricketers and that any financial arrangements with them would be the sole concern of their respective counties.”
The cricketers thereafter 1962 changed in the same dressing rooms, walked out onto the field together and no longer through the amateur or professional route. It was virtually the end of the era when butlers served sherry to amateurs coming in for lunch, unknown to the professionals downstairs. The match scorecards ceased to refer to the amateurs by their full initials and professionals by their surnames.
SOCIAL CLASS AND LEADERSHIP
During Danny’s employment at Hampshire County Cricket Club he worked under the leadership of three captains, namely Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, Roy Marshall and Richard Gilliat.
As the name Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie would suggest, the man was not a part of the working class stock in England.
He typified the kind of individuals that were an integral part of the leadership of English County cricket before and after the end of the Second World War, and the end of the ‘shamateurism’ era.
He was captain of the Hampshire County Cricket Club from 1958 to 1965 which covered probably the most important period of Livingstone’s professional cricket career.
Ingleby-Mackenzie was the son of Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Ingleby-Mackenzie, a surgeon officer of the British Royal Navy. Colin attended Eton College and declined a place at Trinity College of Cambridge University to pursue his cricket career.
He had the distinction of being listed as the County’s last amateur captain and its first professional captain.
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Livingstone’s next captain was the West Indian Roy Marshall. Marshall was a Barbadian or rather Bajan by birth. However, he was not the archetypal West Indian of African origin, but the son of a White plantation owner.
For those familiar with the archetypal West Indian of African origin, you would also be aware of the linkage with the plantation, plantation owners and the children of the plantation owners.
In addition, the readers of the article are entitled Barbados Cricket - Empire Cricket Club (featuring Herman Griffiths & Beyond) in the Association’s last newsletter would have an appreciation for the power wielded by the plantocracy in Caribbean cricket, especially in Barbados.
In Gideon Haigh’s article The Finest Kind of Madness Roy admitted : “Being a White West Indian myself, the son of a planter and living a sheltered life, I suppose I did grow up with slight racist feelings.
It was never anything that was done, but just that I was brought up in a White man’s world and white men at the time, probably ruled the day-to-day life in Barbados.”
However, Roy Marshall did not display any racial animosity toward Danny Livingstone during their playing time at Hampshire County Cricket Club, but would have joined him in his disregard for the incessant swearing and loutish behaviour exhibited on the County Cricket circuit.
It was not the type of behaviour that would have been tolerated on any cricket field in the Caribbean. Marshall disliked sledging so intensely that he rebuked Glamorgan County Cricket Club’s icon Wilf Wooller with the following: “For a Test selector, I think your behaviour is absolutely disgraceful.” Marshall further complained: “ I think the thing that shocked me more than anything else was the amount of swearing… on the (cricket) field….. I learned to ignore the language hurled about, but don’t let anyone fool you that cricket is a gentlemanly pursuit.”
Danny’s last captain at Hampshire County Cricket Club was Richard Gilliat of Charterhouse and Christ Church College, Oxford University. He led the County from 1971 to 1978, but only two seasons as Danny’s leader, since the Antiguan retired in September 1972. Although not considered as an amateur captain, he came from a similar social class as the other ‘jazz hats’.
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Colin Ingleby-MacKenzie Roy Marshall Richard Gilliat
NOT IN THE LEEWARD AND WINDWARD ISLANDS
Although the structure of the first class game and organised cricket in the Caribbean was similar to that in England, ‘with the White settlers occupying the role of the gentlemen and their so-called counterparts, the role of the players’, it was slightly different in Antigua, the home of Danny Livingstone.
This English-type structure was entrenched in Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Jamaica. However, in the Leeward and Windward
Islands this structure was not in place. In Antigua the planters’ male offspring were sent to England for their education and did not return to the island.
As such members of the plantocracy did not participate in the local cricket. The result was limited White representation in the administration
of the game.
According to Tim Hector in his article Pan-Africanism, West Indian Cricket and Viv Richard in Hilary M Beckles’ edited book, “A Spirit of Dominance”, the lack of White participation in the playing and administration of the game accounts for why Antigua, the Leewards and indeed the Windwards were kept out of White-administered West Indian cricket for so long.
‘The planter class was for a long time unable to represent itself on the playing field of the Leeward and Windward Islands and since they (the Islands) could not be looked upon as providing White cricketers for the West Indies team; little or no heed was paid to them.”
First class cricket was not played in the Leeward Islands until July 1958, whilst in Guyana, Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica, first class cricket was a regular feature before the beginning of the 20th century.
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It is Tim Hector’s firm belief that “the very emergence of Black leadership and the near total representation on cricket teams in the Leeward and Windward Islands has everything to do with these islands being excluded from inter-colonial White-administered cricket, and therefore from test match cricket”.
The first Windward Island player to play at test match level for the West Indies was Alfie Roberts (St Vincent) in the 1955-56 series against New Zealand; but the next player to appear at test match level was another Vincentian; Michael Findlay, and not until 1969. Elquemedo Willett was the first cricketer who represented the Leeward Islands in 1973 followed in 1974 by Andy Roberts and Vivian Richards.
According to Tim Hector, before joining Hampshire County Cricket Club, Danny Livingstone was probably not acquainted with the English class structure within cricket in general and first class cricket in particular since it was not in existence in Antigua and throughout the Leeward and Windward Islands.
RACISM AND ENGLISH FIRST CLASS CRICKET
Undoubtedly Danny Livingstone would have been faced with the burning issue throughout his professional cricket career with Hampshire County Cricket Club – racism. The ugly truth is that during the 1950s to the 1980s and beyond, the governing body of cricket in England, though aware of the issue, did little or nothing to tackle the destructive demon that is racism.
Steven Wagg in an article entitled Racism and the English Cricket Party, states: “In the nineteenth century and up to the Second World War, the English cricket authorities viewed cricket through the racialized prism of Empire…..
This condescension survived into the 1950s…..” According to Steven Wagg, despite the White Anglo-Saxon coloniser’s inherent feeling of superiority in relation to the indigenous Indian population, Indian Princes were selected in the English cricket team.
He argues that there were numerous occasions especially during times of stability that class was seen as more important than ethnicity. For example, the Indian Prince K S Ranjisinghi was chosen as a member of the English cricket, but only after the approval of the captain of the opposing Australian cricket team.
However, when chosen to represent England against the South African team, Prince K S Ranjisinghi withdrew after the opposition captain objected to his inclusion. In fact, at the beginning of Danny’s career with Hampshire County Cricket Club in 1959, his fellow Antiguan Kelso Cochrane died after being stabbed by a gang of White youths in Notting Hill on his way home from Paddington General Hospital after receiving treatment for an accident a work.
A year previous to Cochrane’s murder, the Notting Hill area was the scene for a race riot that lasted seven days, involving white working class ‘Teddy Boys’ attacking Black Caribbean families. Although racism was commonly quoted as the cause of the riots since a number of Fascist right wing groups such as the Union of British Freedom and Sir Oswald Moseley’s British union of Fascists were active in the area.
Competition between the Black and White groups was also seen as contributory factors in the disturbances. Black people were in stiff competition with the white working class of the area for housing/accommodation and also employment as ‘the post-war boom hit a lull’.
APPEARANCE FOR OTHER TEAMS
In addition to playing for Hampshire County Cricket Club for 14 seasons, Danny Livingstone represented Warwickshire County Cricket Club, Commonwealth XI, D H Robins XI and the International Cavaliers. In 1957, obviously before being employed by Hampshire County Cricket Club, he played for Warwickshire County Cricket Club Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship.
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COMMONWEALTH XI
In 1960 Danny played for the Commonwealth XI which was mainly a touring team initially consisting primarily of English, Australian and West Indian cricketers. The team played first class games in India, Pakistan and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and later in England. They also toured South Africa and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The team played over 100 first class matches between 1949 and 1968.
DH ROBINS XI
Danny appeared in 1969 for the D H Robins XI. Derek Harold Robins was a cricket enthusiast and sports promoter.
He was also at one time the Chairman of Coventry City Football Club. Robins sponsored cricket teams that played in England, South Africa, Sri Lanka and New Zealand. His team played against the 1969 West Indies touring team and the 1971 Indian touring team.
INTERNATIONAL CAVALIERS
The International Cavaliers was the final team of note that Danny Livingstone was associated with during his professional cricket career. At first the International Cavaliers were a team of famous cricketers that played together with the intention of encouraging people to get involved in the game of cricket. They were also involved in international tours to South Africa, Africa, India and the West Indies. From 1965 to 1970 two famous English cricketers, Denis Compton and Godfrey Evans, organised 40 overs one-day games under the International Cavaliers banner.
The International Cavaliers teams included test players from around the world and local players. These BBC-televised matches were played on Sunday afternoon against the professional English county teams and drew large crowds. Apparently one of the reasons for the large attendances at the International Cavaliers Sunday games was the matches started at 2 p.m when the English public houses (pubs) had to be legally closed and finished at 7 p.m the establishments reopened. The beer tent on the cricket ground was one of the few public places you could legally get a beer on Sundays during the closure of the public houses.
As a result of these well-attended matches, the 40 overs John Player League was started for the English County Cricket Club in 1969, thus leading to the International Cavaliers being disbanded in 1970.
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CAREER RECORD
During his 14 season professional career with Hampshire County Cricket, Danny played 301 first class matches, amassing a grand total of 12,722 runs, with his highest score being 200, and an average of 27.89 runs per innings.
Amongst his runs were 16 centuries. He also scored 1044 runs in 54 limited over matches at an average of 25.46 runs per innings. Danny received his County Cap in 1961.
GIVING BACK
Danny retired from Hampshire County Cricket Club in 1972 at the ripe age of 39 years old.
He then returned to his native Antigua where he was employed as Director of Sports and was instrumental in nurturing a long line of West Indies test cricketers beginning with Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Andy Roberts, Sir Richie Richardson, Sir Curtley Ambrose, and the list goes on.
Danny Livingstone sadly died on 8th September 1988, a few days short of his 55th birthday.
CONCLUSION
Considering the many obstacles Danny Livingstone had to overcome during his employment with Hampshire County Cricket Club, such as racism, amateur captains, sledging, wet wickets, a change in batting technique, and the like, his 14 season career can be considered a success. The total of 13,766 runs for the County Club in first class and limited over matches should not be dismissed. Neither should his pioneering role in the professional County Cricket circuit be forgotten.
Although Roy Marshall, a member of the recognised and respected West Indian plantocracy was already an employee of Hampshire County Cricket Club, Danny Livingstone undoubtedly had to pave the way for future West Indian cricketers of African heritage like Gordon Greenidge, Malcolm Marshall and John Holder at Hampshire County Club, and for many others at the remaining 17 County Cricket Clubs.
Unfortunately very few people remember the Antiguan Diantes Abbia ‘Danny’ Livingstone, but this writer does, and I hope this short
article will help others to appreciate his undoubted contribution to today’s prosperous English County Club cricket.
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DATA PROTECTION
Logo
[Company Name]
[Full Name] [Office Phone]
[Role / Job Title] [Mobile Phone]
www.companydomain.com
Data security and compliance issues are just a few of my areas of interest. I do not intend to get too deep into the wide range of issues which I have seen as a result of the prevalence of electronic mail and other electronic methods of communication cause by those who do not really understand the inherent risks both legally and reputationally.
Take a look at the above sample layout of a business card. Have you noticed anything which would cause you to doubt the integrity of the business which this person represents?
This company has it own domain “companydomain.com”; so why is this employee using (hotmail) a free, unsecured email service?
Does this company have any regard for the need to convince it clients that it values the information which it stores about them?
There are many questions which one must ask him/herself if they are; at all concerned with compliance and data security issues, free means just that free for all. In any event that, this individual causes a breach; the company which he represents could be liable for his actions, but what happens if such actions occur with 24 hours of him ceasing to be employed by that company?
All information which belong to an organisation should be protected by its data security policy. This includes all emails and customer/member contact information. That organisation must define its data retention policy and set appropriate data storage quotas for each employee/officer to ensure that adequate data is archived and can be made accessible for audit and other purposes if the need arises. Hotmail is being looked here, but as we all know there is a myriad of email providers with whom people sign-up and use their so called free service with scant regard for the legal requirements to ascertain that information which they send via email from day to day is protected under the data protection act of their local territory.
Most companies offer these free services at the expense of inheritingphishing rights to your activity while you are on their computers. Information is captured about you and used by them and their partners for marketing purposes.
Okay, you might say oh well; I am getting free email so what if they want to send me tonnes of email or information through the post. That is your right but in some cases you are exposing everyone with whom you communicate to a degree or element of risk.
Understandably I may just be doing what I promised not to do; so I will make a halt here but in doing so I want to refer you to a typical issue which this could cause. The thing to remember is that most of these free email providers such as Microsoft (Hotmail) use cloud based systems. If your data is sitting on a computer outside the jurisdiction of the EU, then chances are it is not protected by the UK data protection act.
If you are interested you can read for yourself the number of occasions when all hotmail accounts were copied or their computers hacked.
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2014/january/data-protection-claims-and-problems-with-jurisdiction/
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Always bear in mind that the extra seconds taken to login to your work email is well worth it in the long run. It also gives your organisation/club some degree of self branding and your clients, members or contacts assurances especially when all your out-going email comes from a ‘business’ rather than a personal email address.
One other popular service which exposes us all to data loss and scams isWhatsapp. This is one of the most insecure messaging services but again it is free and allows inexpensive messaging and of late voice. When you install Whatsapp just like all the other services which are designed to capture information that organisations are no longer allowed to do through the process of cold-calling; not many people care to read the clauses (terms of use) which states that the installation requires access to their contacts and other secure information. Legally these service providers must give you the option to opt-in, Opt-out or cancel. In reality most people install these services because friends have invited them to do so, or bought them over by talking up the main advantage, ‘free’. The urge tojoin the in crowd triggers spontaneity.
Whatsapp messenger is a very pervasive application; it can send out invitations to all your contacts, which in turn results in the same process being iterated by each friend who accepts that invitation.
Common breaches using Whatsapp include capturing of and misuse of user’s bank and credit card details and the installation of malware on smartphones. There are a number of instances where users click on what they are tricked into believing is a genuine url which in turn direct them to an unsuspected site .
The humble fixture card was once a secure and useful method of disseminating information to members, opposition teams and other trusted individuals. These days whenever someone asks you for a fixture card it’s quite likely that they are either not internet savvy or they have already visited your play-cricket site, checked your about us page and failed to obtain a list of contacts. A number of cricket clubs are targeted by their sponsors to provide them with their contact database. In most cases these contact list also include contact details of all the opposition teams.
The modern fixture card if printed and circulated does not need to have more than the following contacts: Fixtures Secretary, General Secretary (if not the same), the team captain(s), the club captain or equivalent officer if you have one and the welfare officer if your club has a junior section. If your your club has a fixed telephone line you may also include that.
Try to avoid using private personal email addresses for your officers. Instead opt for functional email addresses. This ensures that in the scenario where one or more officer(s) is unavailable then access to the mailbox can be granted to the person who is covering for them by simply changing the password. Whenever; that officer returns and resumes his role he/she can then change the password again.
If you have your own website and your hosting package includes features which allow you to create your own contact database, you may want to create a secure database with all your members and contact details and grant privileged access to all your officers who needs to be granted such.
Play-cricket has a secure function which allow you to store all your members information and grant access to key members/officers.
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VOLUNTEERING IN SPORTS
I see myself as a veteran to volunteering in community cricket. This started when I was about 16 years old. During 1976 - 2006, I volunteered as a Scorer / Fixtures Secretary / Tea lady for a local Cricket Team called Lambeth Enterprise Cricket Club. I remember my
older brother coming home one day (after playing on Clapham Common) with excitement; that he was invited to play a game of cricket at the weekend for a team. He had met one of its players on the common. He wanted the family to come and watch him play.
I was the only family member who showed any interest. That was my first time watching a live cricket match. The Team was Lambeth Enterprise Cricket Club. At the game, the manager (Mr McBean), approached me with a scorebook and asked if I knew how to score? I told him I did not, his response was; that I sit and watch what the
other scorer was doing and just copy them.
That’s where I started and my passion grew for the game over the years. The team accepted my brother as a player and then asked him
to bring me to the games to do the scoring. That I did for approximately 30 years. I calculated that I have scored at approximately 1400 cricket matches over those years and possibly more. My team, Lambeth Enterprise Cricket Club used to play many cricket then.
I scored Mid-week, Saturday and Sunday games. In those day’s cricket used to be play from April to September. Most of the clubs we played against did not have proper grounds and facilities; the games were often in open parks and playing fields. On many occasions I sat unsheltered, in extremely cold temperatures in order to get the job done.
Notable Leagues / Cup Competitions / Other Organisations that I scored in are as follows:
o British West Indies Airways (BWIA) Cup Competition
o Lambeth Cricket Academy at Arundel Cricket Foundation
o Bertie Joel Cup Competition
o Community Games v The Metropolitan Police at the Oval Cricket Ground
o Clive Lloyd Cup Competition
o Club Cricket Conference (CCC) Cup Competition
o Evening Standard Challenge Trophy
o Frank David Memorial Cup
o Kookaburra Fordham Surrey Cricket League
o Slazenger Cricket League
o Surrey Cricket League
o Surrey Cup Competition
o South Thames Cricket League
o Victoria Mutual Challenge Trophy
o Vivian Richards Cup Competition
o West Indian World Cricket League
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In 2002-2003, I was a member of the Kennington Park Steering Group Committee alongside other Community Group members working together on the development of cricket within the borough of Lambeth to secure the use of a Cricket Pitch for the local Community on Kennington Park. In 2012, I was a Games Maker at the London 2012 Paralympics Games. I was based at the EXCEL Site; engaging with the public; welcoming, greeting and performing a customer service role. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity for me; a truly memorable one.
I was a volunteer on 22 August 2015 at Cricket United Day which was held at the KIA Oval Cricket Ground. It was a wonderful experience and I am looking forward to doing it again in 2016. We were briefed on the day by the former Surrey and England Cricketer Alec Stewart, OBE. It was a truly remarkable day and a good fundraising opportunity for a number of charities.
I am very privileged to have been invited by Colin Hunte to be part of the ACCA. I fully support the organisation aims and objectives and hope we continue to grow and achieve what is expected of us.
Roxanne Daniels
ACCA Assistant Secretary
LONDON COMBINED 2016 JAMAICA TOUR
Depart: 16th March 2016
Return: 14th April
Tour Itinerary:
Sunday 20th March - Three Hills (St. Mary)
Tuesday 22nd March - Jakes (St. Elizabeth)
Saturday 26th March - Kensington (Portland)
Monday 28th March (Easter Monday) - Ultimate (Discovery Bay)
Saturday 2nd April - Keith (St. Ann)
Sunday 3rd April - Trelawny Stadium (Trelawny)
Wednesday 6th April - Allerton (St Ann)
Saturday 9th April - Knapdale (St Ann)
This will be the final year of a three year programme with Knapdale (St Ann) which has been very successful. We will be starting a new program with two schools on this visit one in Clarendon (May Pen) and the other in St. Catherine (Linstead).
All donations will be greatly appreciated monetary or equipment wise.
Please Contact:
Windell +447734552995
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