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35 REGISTRATION OF PLAYERS:

a) All players must register on the Official Association

Form.

b) No player shall take part in any match conducted by the

Association unless such registration is in the hands of

the Registrar of the Association prior to his taking part

with the exception of point d below.

c) Player registrations must be in the hands of the M.V.C.A.

registrar by 8.00 pm on the Friday preceding the player's

participation in his first roster match, with the

exception of point (d) below.

d) During the first four roster games of the season, sides

may register a maximum of two players on the Saturday of a

game subject to the approval of the opposing captain and

umpire.

e)Any club playing unregistered ,uncleared ineligible,unqualified

or expelled players shall forfeit all points for such match in

which defaulting players participate, and the opposing team

shall be granted maximum points awarded on that day in that

Grade. A fine of $30 shall also be applied

f) The Executive Committee may grant registration of a player

under special circumstances after this final date for

registrations.

g) No player shall register with more than one Association

Club, in the event of this occurring the player shall be

deemed the property of the Club whose registration reaches

the Association Registrar first.

h) Any player who does sign a registration form with more

than one Club will automatically be suspended for two roster

matches in which his Club participates. The Executive

Committee of the M.V.C.A. will have the power to intervene

and deal with the Clubs playing a player registered with two

Clubs.

I) A player must be 12 years old as at 1st roster game of the

current season to play in the MVCA competition for that

season

36. CLEARANCE: a) If a player wishes to obtain a clearance from the Club he

is registered with he must apply for such a clearance on the

cricket website My Cricket and follow the process.The player

shall not be permitted to play until the process has been

completed on this site (Both clubs and Association

statistician)

b) Any Club has the right to refuse a clearance to any player

on Financial Grounds or misconduct or any breach to the Club

concerning the player, however the player concerned has the

right of appeal to the M.V.C.A. Tribunal. He also has the

right of appeal to the Senior Body the Association is

affiliated with.

c) Subject to the above, if a player has not registered with

the M.V.C.A. for a period of two years he can then

register with any Club of his choice, but must still

follow My Cricket process for

registration/clearance/transfer.

d) Clearances, subject to the above, should be dealt with in

four days of receipt of the form. If not, the player may

appeal to the M.V.C.A. Executive.

37. QUALIFICATION OF PLAYERS:

a) No player shall be qualified to play in any Association

representative team unless he is qualified to play with a

registered Association Club.

b) No registered player shall compete in any other senior

competition during the season without, having been through

the appropriate transfer/clearance (My cricket) process or

the permission of the committee. Penalty for doing so is

expulsion.

c) Any player who has participated in 6 games of first grade cricket in a senior competition (A grade Cricket North

West, Tasmanian Premier League etc.)In the current season

shall not be eligible to play in the MVCA unless special

permission is requested and granted.

38 ELIGIBILITY OF PLAYERS -in Roster games and Finals :

a) Clubs will be required to forward a top 7 players For

A grade and A reserve by the 3rd Saturday in January,

who will be ineligible to drop back to a lower grade

after that date and up until finals commence.

b) Clubs with 2 sides in the one grade must also submit 7 players who will not be eligible to be selected in

another side.

c)Players registered in the last 3 weeks of the season

(who will not qualify for finals) ,must play in the lowest

grade for the club (Subject to MVCA approval)

d) Players must play an amount of games (as determined at

each annual AGM) with the Club to be eligible to play in

any finals.

In any season ,the following games played are required to

qualify for finals:

The rule of (1/3 of roster games +1) applies.

e) Clubs that field more than one side, the player must play

an amount of games as determined at each annual AGM in one

Grade to be eligible to play in said Grade. The exception

to this is clubs who have 2 teams in one grade. A player

must play the amount of games determined in a given team,

as opposed to the grade, to be eligible for finals.

f) Players may be promoted to a higher Grade but not demoted

to a lower Grade. The only exception being if a club has 2

teams playing in a final in consecutive grades on the same

day then 1 player may be eligible to be demoted to the

lower grade.

g) Once a player at a club that field’s more than one side

in one grade plays the determined amount of games decided

at the AGM, he must stay in this allotted team for the

remainder of the season, including all finals. (penalty

for breaching rule see 35e)

39 EXPELLED PLAYERS: a) An Association Club which has expelled a player from its

team shall forward to the Association Secretary within

one week of such expulsion, the name of the player,

together with particulars of the offence for which he

was expelled.

b) The player shall have the right to appeal to the

Tribunal.

c) No Club shall be allowed to play such expelled player

until his appeal if any, has finally been decided upon.

40 ROSTER - BYES :

Teams in A Grade or A Reserve having a Bye are eligible to

drop 3 players back to the grade below from the team that

played in the higher grade in the previous round.

i.e. If A Reserve is having a Bye in Round 6, 3 players from

the Round 5 A Reserve team can drop back to B Grade in Round

6.

If a Club has all its teams playing in any given round, then

there are no restrictions on moving players between grades(not

withstanding requirements of clause 38a).

Those teams having an ‘extra’ bye (i.e. some teams may have 3

byes where most only have 2) will be entitled to maximum

points available on the day and are also permitted to lodge a

team sheet for that round.

41. CONDUCT AND ATTIRE :

a)No player shall be allowed to take the field in any match

unless he is dressed in each club’s correct cricketing

uniform. Shorts are not permitted.

b) It is the responsibility of all Clubs and Club Captains

to see their team is correctly attired.

c) Any Club guilty of the above rule shall be fined an amount

which will be determined at each AGM for each defaulting

player for each day in which such offence occurs.

d) Alcohol, bad language and smoking will not be permitted

On the playing arena of any M.V.C.A match.(Code of

Conduct)

e) No player shall leave the playing field while a match

is in progress unless he first obtains Official Umpires

and opposing captains permission.

f) Helmets -All players under the age of 18 must wear a helmet

at all times while batting.

Any player fielding within 5 metres of the batsman on

strike, in front of the wicket, must also wear a helmet.

i.e. wicketkeepers and slips fieldsmen are not required to

wear a helmet even if within 5 metres of the batsman.

42. SCORESHEETS:

All Clubs must use Official Score Books.

Results of match must be recorded on score sheets and score

sheets signed by both Captains

Each Captain is to complete the umpire’s report sheet in the

scorebook. Score sheets must be to the statistician by no

later than 8pm on the Wednesday following the match.

- Captains and Umpire are to signoff/agree on the score at

change of innings.

- Scoresheets must be completely filled out (all

batting,bowling and fielding details)and signed off by

Captains and Umpire at the completion of the game

- Wides and No-balls must be scored as 1 run plus whatever

runs are taken by the batsmen. For example:

- if a batsman hits a no-ball for 2 runs, that is 2 runs to the

batsman, 1 no-ball to the extras and it counts as 3 runs

against the bowler.

- If a wide goes to the boundary, then this is a total of 5

wides.

- If a no-ball is bowled, strikes the batsman on the pad and 2

runs are taken, then this should be scored as 3 no-balls in

the extras and 3 runs (no-balls) against the bowler.

i.e. (Total Batting Runs + Extras) = (Total Bowling Runs +

Leg Byes + Byes)

- Any club failing to forward original or copy score sheets

correctly filled in and signed as above will automatically be

fined an amount which will be determined at each AGM $30 and

the loss of maximum premiership points for the round , . The

fine shall stand until it is paid.

43. MATCH RESULTS:

It is the responsibility of all Clubs to forward copies of

their teams to the 'Advocate' for publishing in Fridays

editions

Results must go to the Examiner by 7:30 pm on the day of the

game. It is the responsibility of the home team to place the

results.

Results must be completed online

1) examiner.com.au./community/forms (For Sunday’s Examiner)

2) theadvocate.com.au/community/forms(Monday’s Advocate)

3) Facebook-Mersey Valley Cricket Association-Brief summary

of results

a) All results must be published.

b) Any Club failing to adhere to this rule will be fined an

amount to be determined at each annual AGM by the M.V.C.A.

The Statistician to the Association will report all breaches

to the M.V.C.A. Executive whose decision will be final on

such issues concerning match publication.

c) If discrepancies occur in score sheets the Official

Umpires must take charge of books and hand them to the

M.V.C.A. Executive on the evening of the match.

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44. UMPIRES:

Any person umpiring any part of any roster match conducted

by the Association shall be regarded as Officially engaged

by the Association. In the event of players from the batting

side umpiring, the fielding team Captain must approve before

the appointment is made.

Umpires for all matches to be appointed by the Mersey Valley

Umpires Association, subject to the M.V.C.A. accepting

Umpires from the Mersey Valley Umpires Association.

a) All umpires are to be paid during change of innings.

Umpires have the right to refuse to take the field until

such payments have been made. Fees: will be decided at each

annual AGM

c) Square leg umpires: Must be correctly attired, i.e.

Shirts, shoes, pants or shorts must be a contrasting colour

to the fielding side uniform

45.UMPIRES PAYMENT:

All Umpires are to be paid during change of innings. Umpires

have the right to refuse to take the field until such

payments have been made.

46.UMPIRES REPORT SHEET:

a) The Official Mersey Valley Cricket Association Umpire

report Sheets must be filled in on scoresheets and signed

by both Captains

b) A fine to be determined at each annual AGM will be

levied for non-compliance.

c)It is the responsibility of the HOME Team to ensure

that these are filled in and forwarded to the Association

47. BALLS: a) Two piece Kookaburra Tuff Pitch balls must only be used,.

48 FORFEITS:

a) Any side that forfeits a Roster Game and does not notify

its opponent, M.V.C.A. Secretary and the Official Umpire by

8pm. on the Friday shall be fined $50.00, payable within

fourteen (14) days of notification from M.V.C.A. Secretary.

M.V.C.A Secretary is to advise Statistician of a forfeit.

b) Team that forfeits after this time (48a) pays full amount of

Umpires fee if Umpires are not reappointed to another game.

c) If a Club forfeits it must forfeit its lowest side e.g. If a

Club fields an "A" Grade, "A Reserve" and "B" Grade it must

forfeit its "B" Grade side first.

d) If a Club cannot have 7 players to take the field at the

commencement of a match the game shall then be forfeited to

the opposing side.

e)If any side forfeits 3 consecutive games it will be expelled

from the roster

49. POSTPONEMENT OF MATCHES:

The committee can postpone matches at any time for good

and sufficient reasons.

50. WET WEATHER:

a) The decision of whether matches commence will be the sole

responsibility of the Wet Weather Committee.

b) If a match is cancelled by the Wet Weather Committee, teams

are required to still forward copy or original score sheet

to the Association Statisticians by the required time as per

normal matches. The score sheet must be signed by the Team

Captain before it is considered valid.

c) If matches are cancelled owing to wet weather all Clubs

will be notified through Sea FM Radio Station,or posted on

the MVCA Facebook site as soon as the decision has been made

d) Any game that commences and reaches a result, the points

shall count even if other games are washed out in that grade

e) If rain delays the start of a game more than 30 minutes or

are lost in total after the game has commenced the game

must be played until (6.30pm A grade ),(5.50pm A

res),(5.10pm B Grade ) unless the two captains agree to

abandon the game.

The captains and umpire may agree to reduce the number of

overs to be bowled i.e. 1 over each side reduced for each

8 minutes lost, however a game must consist of at least

80% of overs i.e.( A grade 80 overs, A Reserve 72 overs,

B Grade 64 overs)( for it to be recognized as a game).

The side batting first will bat until the reduced amount of

overs has been achieved. The side batting second will then

bat until the same amount of overs or to the finishing

time. If the reduced amount of overs are not faced by the

side batting second before finishing time the game will

result in a draw

The umpire will re-calculate amount of overs per bowler

upon loss of overs through interruption –e.g. 42 overs (2

X 9 and 3 X 8)

f) In rain affected games, overs are expected to be bowled at No less than 15 overs per hour (4 mins per over)as per all Calculations for overs reductions and play finishing times

g) If the two captains cannot agree as to whether a game

shall be abandoned, it becomes the responsibility of the

umpire(s). Score sheets still have to be submitted if a

game is abandoned.

51 Finals-Wet Weather

a) As per clause 15a1, the Grand Final will have 1 extra

week held aside in the event of wet weather or a tie. The

extra week (being 1 week after the proposed grand final

date), will not be pushed back any further.

b) In semi/pre finals, if a game is washed out or tied on

the Saturday, the game will be played on the Sunday.

If a semi/pre-final commences and is washed out on

Saturday the game will resume on Sunday at the score that

it ceased at the previous day. If this is again washed out

the higher ranked team progresses through then the highest

placed team at the end of the roster period (semi) or

after semi’s(pre) will be deemed the winner of that final.

c) In a grand final if on the first weekend the above

conditions apply, if a result is unable to be reached then

the games starts anew the next Saturday

52. PLAYING FIELDS:

All pitches must be marked clearly re: Batting and

Bowling lines. Boundaries must be clearly defined and this

will be the responsibility of the Home Club. Scoreboards

are to be supplied by all home teams.Clubs failing to do

so will be fined an amount which will be determined at

each AGM.

53. UNPLAYABLE GROUNDS:

If the rostered ground is unplayable and no other grounds

are available the match must be played on Sunday. The home

team is responsible for making the necessary arrangements,

and the appropriate people as per a forfeit must be

notified.

54. PLAYING 12 PLAYERS

Captains must supply Umpires with Team Lists prior to the

toss. They must nominate their 11 batsmen and 11 bowlers

– i.e. nominate 1 player who can only bowl (non-batter)

and 1 player who can only bat (non-bowler). The wicket-

keeper cannot be the Non-Bowler. With 12 players, one

player needs to be off the ground at all times. Players

can go on and off the ground at any stage provided the

umpire is notified.However each player must be on the

ground 2/5 of the set overs in each grade to be eligible

to bat ie (A grade 20 overs)

If a player starts the innings off the ground, he is able

to take the field and bowl immediately.

Absence from the field

If any fielder is absent or off the field for more than

eight (8 mins or 2 overs).After they retake the field,

they shall not be allowed to bowl until they have fielded

for the same amount of time that they were off the field.

They shall not be allowed to bat in the second innings

until either, time spent fielding after returning to the

field towards end of innings =

The amount of time that they were absent from the field or

5

Wickets have fallen whichever is the earlier

in the second innings until either: (a) the

fr

55 LATE ARRIVAL OF PLAYERS

Should one of the nominated 12 players not arrive within

1.5 hour (A grade),1.25 hrs (A Res),1 hr (B.Grade)of the

scheduled start time of the match, that player is not

eligible to take the field as part of the playing group.

As such, the remaining 11 players will form the side for

that match. The non-batter and non-bowler nominations

will then not apply.

The player who is excluded from the playing side may act

as a substitute fielder if another player becomes ill or

injured, providing permission from the Umpire and

Opposition Captain is sought. However, it does not count

as a ‘game’ for finals qualification purposes for this

player

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Rules of Play

OVERS

Each side will face a maximum amount of overs to be

decided at each AGM. MVCA games are subject to a limit of

A Grade 50 overs per side with a bowler being allowed a

maximum of 10 overs.

A Reserve 45 overs per side with a bowler being allowed a

maximum of 9 overs

B.Grade 40 overs per side with a bowler being allowed a

maximum of 8 overs

STARTING TIME: Innings Start and End Times

The first innings of a Roster Game commences at 12:00pm

A grade 1st innings 12-.00-3.10 pm and 2nd innings 3.20pm-6.30

pm

A reserve 1st innings 12.00pm-2.50pm and 2nd innings 3.00pm-

5.50pm

B.Grade 1st innings 12.00pm-2.30pm and 2

nd innings 2.40pm-

5.10pm

Note the 1st innings finishes at 3.10 (A grade)even if delayed

for a period by rain

The 2nd batting side only receives the same number of overs as

the first batting side received.

Matches are to start at an appropriate time, which will be

decided at each annual AGM. Finals games to commence 12 noon.

LATE STARTING: a) Any team or teams not ready to commence at the appropriate

starting time shall be liable to a fine. The amount of this

fine will be decided at each annual AGM.

b) The above offences concerning late starting must be reported

to the M.V.C.A. Secretary by the Officiating Umpire's before

the fine can be imposed.

c) In the event of a team or teams not being able to start

within 30 minutes of official starting time, it will be

deemed to forfeit the match with the opposing team receiving

the maximum points awarded on that day in that Grade.

FIELDING RESTRICTIONS-

The competition is played under International rules – i.e. no

more than 5 fielders allowed on the leg side

NO-BALLS- Deliveries Bowled Off the Pitch

Any delivery which bounces off the pitch shall be called a

no-ball.

A delivery which lands on the very outside edge of the

pitch and then deflects sharply away from the pitch,

provided it does not subsequently contact the striker’s

bat or person, shall be called wide ball.

If a full-pitched delivery that is

travelling off the pitch is struck by the batsman before it

has bounced, the delivery is not a no-ball.

SHORT PITCHED DELIVERIES

A short-pitched delivery is defined as a ball which, after

bouncing, passes or would have passed above the shoulder

of a batsman standing upright at the popping crease. This

is regardless of whether the ball contacts the striker’s

bat or person.

Bowlers are permitted to bowl one (1) short-pitched ball

per batsman per over.

Should any bowler exceed the limit above, the umpire shall

call and signal no-ball. The delivery will also count as a

short-pitched ball for the purpose of the over’s limit.

In the event that a batsman hits a ball at a height above

his head, provided that the ball is not already a no-ball,

then the ball is not wide and the batsman will be out if

the ball is subsequently caught.

Any short-pitched ball that passes or would have passed

above the head of a batsman standing upright at the

popping crease, provided it does not contact the striker’s

bat or person, shall be called wide ball.

(to be decided by central umpire) and any delivery over

the waist full toss to be called a no-ball.

LEG SIDE WIDES

Leg-side wide marker lines shall be painted between the

popping and bowling creases at a distance of 450mm from

middle stump.

Any ball which passes wholly outside the leg-side wide-

line without contact with the striker’s bat or person

shall be called wide ball.

However, should a ball down the leg-side pass between the

line of the leg stump and the striker, it shall not be a

wide ball regardless of the width.

PREMIERSHIP POINTS - Win 4 points

Tie or washout 2 points each (see note)

Forfeit or loss 0 points

(Note: It is necessary to share points for each washout as

with late rain some games may be completed, leaving

"washed out" teams at a distinct disadvantage).

In the event of teams being on the same points at the end

of the season, positions on the ladder to be decided

byNet Run Rate.

(RUNS SCORED/OVERS FACED)-(RUNS CONCEDED/OVERS BOWLED)

e.g. If a team scores 2,400 runs for the year and faces

800 overs and its opponents score 2,000

runs from 750 overs then

Net run Rate is (2400/800) -(2000/750)=3-2.666 =0.44,these

are worked out in My Cricket as part of results entry

Points for Cricketer of the Year/ Averages qualifications

1 per run

30 per unassisted wicket

15 per assisted wicket

15 per catch

15 per stumping

30 per run out (direct)

15 per shared run out

Under 21 and Under 16 Cricketer-of-the-Year points

The Under 21 Cricketer of the Year is based on total points

earned in each grade - the higher the grade, the higher the

points weighting.

The points weightings that applies to points earned in each

grade for the MVCA’s Under 21 Cricketer of the Year are as

follows:

1.50 x A-Grade points

1.25 x A-Reserve points

1.00 x B-Grade points

These revised points are then totalled to give the number of

Under 21 points

Batting average qualification - 9 innings ,minimum of 250 runs

Bowling average qualification - minimum of 80 overs

This Constitution is binding at all times. In the event of any problems

arising concerning members and players being brought before the Independent

Tribunal, all members and players have the right to appeal to the Senior Body

the Association is affiliated with within 5 days. The tribunal will be held at

the Devonport RSL at 7.30 pm on the following Wednesday.