OCC announces changes to regulations
The General Playing Regulations and the Competition Regulations for all league divisions and all weekend cup competitions are now on the Cricket Leinster website. The regulations for the various T20 competitions will be posted shortly.
The main changes from 2016 are highlighted below. In addition to these there are changes of wording in some regulations for clarification purposes.
Players, particularly team captains, and administrators are urged to familiarise themselves with the regulations as published. They can be found on our regulation page at http://www.cricketleinster.ie/regulations
General Playing Regulations
- Regulation 6 - Availability of players/Acceptability of starring lists
Appearances in T20 competition matches will no longer count for starring purposes i.e - A player who is absent for four weeks from weekend league and cup matches must be removed from the starring list even if he has played in T20 competition matches during that period.
- Regulation 12 – Submission of Match Information
There is no material change in the regulation per se. However there have been improvements in both the Cricket Leinster (CL) and Leinster Cricket Umpires and Scorers Association (LCUSA) websites which should assist in the submission of match information (scorecards and captains’ reports). These should now facilitate the Open Competitions Committee (OCC) in applying penalties more stringently than in the past which it is intended to do.
- Regulation 20 – Suspect Bowling Actions
This regulation has been added and includes
- LCUSA Procedure for dealing with suspect actions
- CL Criteria for evaluating suspect actions
- CL Guidelines for video recording of bowlers for use in such evaluations.
- Regulation 21 – This has been added to summarise the requirements for clothing, balls, sightscreens for all competitions.
Competition Regulations
These are listened by competition(s) as heretofore.
- The main change relates to start times (regulation 12). In all weekend league and cup competitions a facility has been introduced whereby clubs can agree an earlier start time for a particular fixture than that listed provided that
- a) Both clubs agree to the change at least two weeks before the date of the fixture
- Both clubs notify OCC, LCUSA and the CL website of this agreement at least two weeks before the date of the fixture.
- Related times tea interval etc. are changed accordingly.
OCC had in fact intended in response to club requests to have a standard start time of 1200
for Divisions 1 and 2 who have centrally made fixtures. However the Youth and Schools
Committee was not willing to agree to this.
- As already notified, the Senior Cup is now a 40 over a side competition. The same regulations (including the use of the Duckworth Lewis Stern system) apply therefore to all rounds of both competitions.
- Due to the regular failure of some teams in Divisions3 and 4 in particular to provide scorers as required by the laws of the game, a specific penalty has been incorporated into the regulations for Divisions 1 – 4 under Law 5. The team sheets which have to be provided to the umpires before a game must now include the name of the scorer for that team. If a team cannot provide a non-playing scorer, one of the nominated players must be assigned the role and not play.
- T20 competitions - As already notified, the Alan Murray Cup now has a weekend league type round robin format which will determine the teams going forward to knockout evening quarter-finals. The semi-finals and final will then take place on a weekend date. The other T20 competitions will be straight knockout competitions.
- Tillain Cup – The Free Hit and Switch Hit provisions will now apply in this competition.