So how did it come about that you took up umpiring? Talk us through it.

Q AIn 1999 I was at a lunch for cricket and Mel Johnson, a really good umpire, was at the table and he asked me if I had ever considered being an umpire. I went, ‘of course not, umpires? Phhhhh’. But that put the seed in my mind. That night when I went home, switched on the TV and there was Darryl Hair umpiring in the Caribbean. I looked at it and said that doesn’t look so bad because he was in the middle of all this beautiful scenery.

QBeenleigh-Logan at Trevor Barsby Oval. I think they wanted to send me as far as possible away from home to test if I’d turn up for the match. After that when was your Agrade umpiring debut and when did you make it to firstclass status?

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