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\u00a0dennis.heath@cricketshow.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DENNIS HEATH<\/strong><\/p>\n

LIFETIME Achievement Award Nominee, CHoF 2026.<\/p>\n

1963 \u2013 1975<\/p>\n

My Cricketing journey began in Hayes, Clarendon, Jamaica in 1963.\u00a0 At the age of 12, I was selected to play for my home District School \u201cHayes Primary\u201d against Lionel Town School.\u00a0 In 1964, my parents decided that the future was in London, England.<\/p>\n

Arriving in London, I attended a modern secondary school where I excelled both academically and in sport, cricket to be precise. In 1965, I was selected to represent both School and London Borough of Camden, at age 14.\u00a0 Pursuing my love of cricket, I joined my local Cricket Club, Northampton Exiles.\u00a0 I was the opening bowler and middle order bat. I encouraged and supported six of my school friends to become active-playing members of the club.<\/p>\n

During my work-life experience, I actively participated and assisted with the formation of an after-work cricket team.\u00a0 We played twenty-overs matches against rival employers\u2019 teams in the local area.<\/p>\n

In fact, when I sought new employment opportunities in Bermuda, the first line in my supervisors\u2019 reference letter said,<\/p>\n

\u201cDennis\u2019 Love of Cricket\u2026\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

1975- 1985 & 1987-1989<\/p>\n

In Bermuda, I joined a group of cricket enthusiasts promoting, teaching and encouraging the growth of Cricket Umpires.\u00a0 Additionally, I was the club representative on the Bermuda Cricket Board of Control, the national governing body for cricket in the islands of Bermuda.\u00a0 During my years in Bermuda, I was an active club member, player and a practicing certified umpire. In 1984, I passed the Written Examination of the West Indies Cricket Umpires Association (WICUA).<\/p>\n

1989 \u2013 2019<\/p>\n

I migrated to the United States, settled in California, and immediately became a certified Umpire and member of the Association of Cricket Umpires of Southern California (ACUSC).\u00a0 I served in the capacity of Secretary of the Association.\u00a0 Duties included regular administrative functions. Additionally, I conceived, researched, wrote and produced a monthly Newsletter for members of the Association.\u00a0 The objective was continuing education, and keeping umpires updated.\u00a0 The multipage document was typewritten on an electric typewriter (computer word processing applications were not yet available).\u00a0 This chore was time consuming and labor intensive over several days and nights.\u00a0 The end product was individually, folded, hand written addressed per envelope and mailed via United States Postal Service.<\/p>\n

Additionally, I assisted with the recruiting, training and teaching of new Umpires, working with former CHoF inductee, Leo Magnus and others. My personal officiating match duties required my weekly round trip by car, traveling 200 mile plus round trip from my home in San Diego to Los Angeles and surrounding areas.\u00a0 Duty required early morning wakeup, with young family in tow, and late nights in notoriously bad Los Angeles traffic on the return journey, arriving home in the 10 pm time slot.<\/p>\n

During the later years, emphasis was on junior cricket.\u00a0 I assisted the local San Diego Cricket Club\u2019s efforts working with the boys and girls, officiating matches, teaching the laws of cricket and encouraging participation.<\/p>\n

2019 \u20132024<\/p>\n

In 2019, I retired from my day-job and more than 56 years of playing and officiating as an Umpire.\u00a0 My colleague and friend, Lynford Mckenzie from Houston, Texas, encouraged my participation on the weekly radio cricket talk show, hosted by founder Leon Francis and a group of panelists and contributors.<\/p>\n

One year later, I was invited to become a member of the board of the Cricket Show USA.\u00a0 During absences and, illness and other emergencies, I assisted as a cohost on the weekly 3-hour broadcasts. The Show has listeners in many countries around the world, including USA, England, Caribbean, Australia and India.<\/p>\n

In 2023, I was inducted into the first in the world, USA Cricket Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

2025 \u2013 Present<\/p>\n

More recently, the cricket Show USA has changed format and platform, from a radio only broadcast to Livestreaming via YouTube and Zoom weekly broadcasts.\u00a0 I am the appointed secretary of the Cricket Show USA, and the principal host of the weekly broadcasts.<\/p>\n

Currently, my duties and responsibilities occupy more than 8 hours of my time, seven days per week.\u00a0 Research, preparation, procuring, writing scripts, arranging guest appearances, and anchoring broadcasts are time consuming activities.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding an eight-hour workday, my first book, FOCUS ON THE LAWS OF CRICKET\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>was published in September 2025.\u00a0 Proceeds from the book sale is earmarked for sharing with the Cricket Show USA and the Cricket Hall of Fame.\u00a0 No time to rest, the manuscript for book 2, is in preparation, another cricket related book.<\/p>\n

Finally, this cricket life began in 1963. And play is still in progress 62 years later, with a vision of more years to come.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inductees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crickethofmuseum.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crickethofmuseum.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crickethofmuseum.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crickethofmuseum.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crickethofmuseum.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crickethofmuseum.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6946,"href":"https:\/\/crickethofmuseum.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions\/6946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crickethofmuseum.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crickethofmuseum.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crickethofmuseum.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crickethofmuseum.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}