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Great point.

Never had to umpire our own games until playing C grade later in my career.

Up until then however, we had neutral umpires and honestly, some of the decisions you would cop (or not get) were astonishing.

In our association, think the Umps got $75 per Saturday for umpiring (which I don't have an issue with) but you suspect some of them only did it to get the $$$ and didn't have a great knowledge of cricket.