My favourite cricket umpire story was way back in a Gloucester v Lancashire Gillette Cup match in 1971. Lancs were batting and needed 25 from the last 5 overs, but it was getting quite dark, so David Hughes, the Lancashire batsman, asked the umpire whether there was a case for suspending play for bad light, whereupon umpire Jepson replied "There's the Moon, how far do you want to see ?" - Lancashire won the match.