Then what happened for you to actually make the jump across?

AI rang up Queensland Cricket and went through a winter training program. My first match as an umpire was in a fourth grade between Sandgate-Redcliffe and My initial first grade game was between Western Suburbs and Sandgate at Graceville in 2000 and in 2001 I made my first-class debut in a one-dayer between Queensland and Tasmania. That one was at the Gabba.