Last updated: 16th January 2026
The Middlesex ACO runs a number of courses and workshops for scorers over the close season. There are a number of skills required to become a scorer in cricket and we’re here to help you get to grips with all of them from the very basics, to advanced techniques.
New Education and Development Pathway for Scorers launched.
This pathway has been designed to provide a clear transparent process and structured learning approach to help equip scorers to operate across all levels of our game, blending learning opportunities and in-game experience, against a structured competence framework that allows scorers to be clear on the expected knowledge required to suitably service the game.
The following diagram shows the ECB Scoring Pathway:
The new educational offer supporting the ECB Scoring Pathway is set out below:
Further information on the ECB Scoring Pathway can be found here: Scoring Pathway Guide
or please contact the Middlesex ACO Lead Scorer – Education via scorers@middlesexaco.com
ECB Online Scoring Module
This course is designed to give people new to scoring the knowledge and confidence to have a go at scoring in cricket. No prior experience of scoring is required before attending the course.
Whether you plan to support junior softball cricket or a hard ball game, this course will cover the following topics:
- Understanding the role of the Scorer
- Recognise umpire signals and what they mean for scoring
- Gain an understanding of both paper and electronic scoring
- Understand how to end the game and identify results correctly
- Have an awareness of safeguarding responsibilities whilst scoring.
The course is all completed online and can be completed all in one go or broken up into small bitesize amounts that suit your needs and schedule.
To gain your certificate, you must complete all of the online learning. There is no cost for this course and all scorers will be offered free membership to join the Association of Cricket Officials via the online learning platform on completion.
To Register please click on Link: ECB Online Scoring Module.
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Modules
To advance along the scorer’s pathway the following continuous professional development modules are available to anyone from S5 onwards and all carry ECB ACO certificates of attendance.
Scoring Techniques
This session introduces scorers to regular, repeatable scoring routines to ensure accuracy when scoring, how the umpiring and scoring teams work together for the smooth running of the game, key Laws of Cricket and how to accurately record penalty runs.
Duckworth Lewis Stern (DLS)
This module is designed to explain the Duckworth Lewis Stern (DLS) method of setting a revised target when there has been a suspension in play in a one-day match. It looks at the brief history of DLS and introduces scorers to the theory behind DLS, the theory to manually calculate DLS target scores, the terminology involved and how to use the DLS calculators within PCS Pro and the Play-Cricket Scoring App.
Linear Scoring
This session introduces scorers to Linear Scoring, explains the theory behind it, why a scorer might choose to use Linear Scoring and teaches the method by putting the skills into practise to improve the scorer’s competence and confidence.
Statistics
This session introduces scorers to the theory and relevance of certain statistics that are required of a scorer to perform during a game, understanding how to record and report on relevant interruptions both when scoring manually and electronically.
PCS-Pro Scoring
This session introduces scorers to scoring cricket matches via the Play-Cricket Scorer Professional (PCS-Pro) software and database, covering all key aspects from fixture creation and team selection to methodology on how to score a match and finalise the result accurately.
Dates and venues for the above along with link to register will be published in the New Year
To register for any of the above Continuous Professional Development (CPD) modules click on the link below
ECB ACO Scorer courses – Find a course
ECB Scoring Development Programme
Launching in 2027, the ECB Scoring Development Programme will support the additional learning of scorers who are looking for progression from the Representative Game Scorer – Professional (S2) to the Professional Game Scorer (S1) levels. This programme will cover the key differences from operating in 2nd XI professional men’s cricket through to the full professional game, including the key regulations around anti-corruption, working practices in the professional game and working with key stakeholders (for example broadcast colleagues, match managers, etc).