Scorer Development Courses - PCS Pro Scoring - SACO (22nd March 10:00-17:00)

Scorer Development Courses

During the winter of 2025/26, the ECB have updated the Scorer Pathway. This has resulted in scorers being regraded into 5 levels (S5 to S1), based on their previous pathway level and scoring experience.

The ECB have also taken the opportunity to update the courses we offer. Some courses have been retained and renewed, and some are brand-new for 2026. Surrey is pleased to be offering all of these new courses.

PCS Pro Scoring

Scoring electronically has become ever more popular as a method of scoring and this workshop covers the use of Play Cricket Scorer Pro (PSC Pro®), which is a free scoring program for Microsoft Windows ® based computers, developed by the ECB in conjunction with ECB ACO scorers and with direct links to the Play-Cricket League Management system.

Most scoring software is intuitive to use but many of the packages (PCS Pro included) contain advanced features and customisation that may not be so obvious Whilst they are all easy to use, the most important thing to know, is how to correct things when the inevitable mistakes occur. 

This workshop will take you through scoring using PCS Pro from setting up a match to printing out a scorecard or a player’s wagon wheel and will give you some handy hints on how to make amendments as quickly as possible, while play continues.

This course does not teach you how to score but applies your existing scoring knowledge in the use of PCS Pro. You will need to bring your own laptop with the PCS Pro software pre-installed. You can download the PCS Pro software free of charge here 

 Topics covered in the PCS Pro workshop include:

· Clubs, Teams, Players, Locations, Officials and Match Types

· Start up and set up including downloading a match from Play-Cricket.

· Live Scores

· Scoring locally when WiFi is not available or the match is not on Play-Cricket.

· Configuring your settings

· Scoring a match

· Change of innings and end of game

· Interruptions in play

· Printing

· Correcting mistakes

NOTE: This is a whole-day course

Tea and coffee will be provided, but you will need to bring your own lunch.

Free parking is available and there is step-free access.

• To      attend any of the courses, attendees need to be full      members of the ECB ACO
• To      attend the Scoring Techniques course, all attendees should have completed      the ECB Online Scoring course (Summary - ECB Online Scoring Module)
• For      each course, please highlight the relevant level of course (it is not      required that scorers be at this level to attend, but it marks out the      progression):
  • Scoring Techniques, DLS -> needed to progress to S4
  • PCS Pro, Linear, Statistics -> needed to progress       to S3