On today's long-overdue return episode of Slashing Through the Cordon, we discuss the issue of umpiring in cricket, in particular the occurrence of the square leg umpires that come out and do the job when their team is batting. In a sport that is so overregulated and so over umpired at the highest levels in this day and age, with technology and video reviews and pitch maps and actually attempting to follow the rules, it is still a quaint part of lower grade cricket that games are self-umpired, and that people expect that these games will be played under the laws of cricket with completely unbiased decisions.

This episode offers three stories from my own experiences in my early days of grade cricket, and will now doubt give everyone a chance to recall their own experiences of the same. That's coming up on today's edition of Slashing Through the Cordon - the Kiama Cricket Podcast.