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SACRAMENTO CRICKET ASSOCIATION - S TANDING RULES TABLE OF CONTENT Section Contents 0. General 1. Condition of Play 2. Penalties for Delayed Start 3. Drinks and Lunch Intervals 4. Ground Conditions 5. No-Balls, Wides & Dead Balls 6. Umpiring 7. Registration of Players 8. Competition Points/Score sheet/Bonus Points 9. Provision of the game 10. League Structure 11. Players Transfer 12. Dispute Resolution 13. Appendix A- Approved Cricket Balls 14. Appendix B: Points & Penalties 15. Appendix C: NRR Calculations SACRAMENTO CRICKET ASSOCIATION - S TANDING RULES (R EVISED 04/09/08) General 0.1 All games played under the jurisdiction of the SCA, Inc. shall be governed by the official Laws of Cricket (1980 code including Year 2000 rule changes any subsequent revisions) laid down by the Marylebone Cricket Club & ICC ODI rules & regulation, except as stated in the rules contained herein. SCA EC with Rules & Disciplinary Committee has the exclusive right to amend any rule when a situation arises during the league. The SCA teams are recommended to have a printed copy of these Standing Rules available for reference at all league games. Secretaries of all clubs shall forward to the Association Secretary at least twenty (20) days prior to the start of a season, a simple map and clear directions to facilitate location of their home grounds. 0.2 Ethics and Expectations: It is the duty of every player to play the game in the highest tradition of sportsman spirit. The Captain of the team is responsible for his players’ behavior on and off the field of play. It is the duty of the Captain of a team to resolve all problems on the field in an amicable manner. The umpires are required to have high moral grounds in doing their officiating duties. Personal prejudices or their own team benefits should never come into play in any their decisions. There needs to be a basic trust in the umpires and their decisions by both the teams on the field. Fielding teams should resist from excessive appealing and the batsmen should resist from trying to show up the umpire in case of a mistaken decision. Any complaints about anything must be lodged in writing by the Captain to EC. 0.3 All New clubs/teams joining the SCA league will be an Associate Member for first year. Upon successfully completing one year, next year they will get full membership. 0.4 Associate members don’t have voting rights. 0.5 All the games organized by SCA league cannot be played on Base ball grounds Conditions of Play 1.1. Play (First ball to be bowled) shall commence at 9:00AM on the schedule date. The starting eleven for each team must submitted to the umpire prior to coin toss and coin toss in presence of umpire must take place by 8:50AM. All SCA league games will be played in daylight, NO day&night matches. Note: Teams are encouraged to start at 8:30 AM during the hot July, August and September months. 1.1a. The home team has to do everything in its power to ensure that the ground is ready for play by the time the coin toss takes place. Delays can only take place if the umpires deem that the reasons for the delay were beyond the powers of the home team. For example, inspite of paying and reserving a field with the city, some other people had already the occupied the field. In this case, the home team has to prove that they had reserved the field and the delay incurred in clearing the field will not be held against the home team. 1.1b . The schedule date cannot be changed. Request for exceptions to this rule shall be notified to the Executive Committee in writing by Wednesday prior to the game. Exceptions shall be granted on a limited basis and only to clubs who provide written documentation from the school or park authority stating why the cricket facilities are not available at 9:00AM. 1.1c. Late start games will not have points deduction but the team responsible for late start would loose 1 over for every 5 minutes late from their batting. For Ex: Team A is responsible for 25 minutes late, when bowling they would be bowling 30 overs to the opposition Team B, but they will be asked to chase the score in 25 overs only. And also in that case the maximum overs a Bowler can bowl from Team A will be 5. Maximum late start allowed is 1 hour from start time after which the opponent team gets forfeit and full points with bonus. This clause is subject to delay exceptions noted in 1.1a 1.1d . Penalties for late start by the umpires will be as follows: 1 Point per umpire will be deducted on the first occurrence. 2 Points/umpire will be deducted on the second occurrence, 3 Points/umpire for the third occurrence and so forth. 1.2. All league games shall consist of one innings each side. An innings shall be the fall of ten (10) wickets or the completion of a maximum of Thirty (30) 6-ball overs, whichever occurs first. Each bowler will be allowed a maximum of 6 overs . 1.3. If a team forfeits three games during regular league season, then the CLUB (one or more teams from the club) will be disqualified from all SCA games for that season. Further, that club would be an Associate member for the next season. 1.4. The SCA EC intends to have time restrictions for bowling the stipulated over. The umpires must regulate the fielding team to bowl the stipulated overs including the drinks break at the latest by 2 ½ Hours. 1.5. In case of delay start, the object shall always be to rearrange the number of overs so that both teams shall have the opportunity of batting for the same number of overs (minimum fifteen (15) overs each team). A minimum of Fifteen (15) overs shall constitute a game. Under no circumstances will the teams and the umpires enter into an agreement to play less than the minimum 15 overs for each side. Results from any such agreement will Null and void. 1.7. If, owing to a suspension of play during the innings of the team batting second it is not possible for that team to have the opportunity of batting for the same number of overs as the team batting first, in this case, if the team batting second have neither been all out nor have passed their opponent’s score, the following shall apply. (a) If the match is abandoned after the side batting second has faced at least fifteen (15) overs, the result shall be decided on the average run-rate throughout both innings. (b) If, due to suspension of play, the number of overs in the innings of the side batting second has to be revised, the target score shall be calculated by multiplying the reduced number of overs by the average runs per over scored by the side batting first. (c) In the event of the team batting first being all out in less that their full quota of overs, the calculation of the average run-rate shall be based on the full quota of overs to which they would have been entitled and not on the number of overs in which they were dismissed. (d) Matches in which one or both teams have not had an opportunity of batting for a minimum of fifteen (15) overs shall be declared “NO RESULT”. Points shall be awarded in accordance with Section 8-g. 1.8. No regular season league game shall be rescheduled unless it’s notified by Wednesday prior and approved by the Executive Committee prior to the schedule date. This will be purely an exception. Matches cannot be rescheduled due to ground unavailability’s or bad weather reasons beyond the weekend in which the game was scheduled to play. In former case the home team which cannot provide a ground will forfeit the game and in latter case (ex. Rain) the points will be shared 1.9. Result: (a) Win: Any team that score more runs than other team or any team that had same amount of runs but has lost fewer wickets. (b) Tie: If both team have identical score and identical numbers of wicket lost at the end of stipulated over (c) Walkover: Any team that fail to show-up at least 30 min after the agreed upon start time or fail to take the field as requested by umpire will abandon the match. (d) No Results: One or both teams did not have the opportunity to bat for the minimum fifteen overs. 2. Penalties for Delayed Start All the team members and the umpires are expected to reach the ground on time. If there will be any delay in the match, the decision will be taken by the umpires and the playing captains. NO EXCUSE WILL BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION FOR COMING LATE TO THE GROUND. All league matches shall start at the time designated unless both captains agree to a change of starting time at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the game. Automatic penalties for late start of a match shall be as follows: 2.1. Late start games will not have points deduction but the team responsible for late start would loose 1 over for every 5 minutes late from their batting. For Ex: Team A is responsible for 25 minutes late, when bowling they would be bowling 30 overs to the opposition Team B, but they will be asked to chase the score in 25 overs only.