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[Lekka Global Alliance]

@ LCC it was straight (ish) forward. All skips would goto the selection meeting on a Tuesday evening with their teams already selected based on registrations. This was changed as the skipper of the 6ths eleven may have had an issue with a 1st team player and wanted to hold court. Now it is split (afaik) to a split selection commitee.  As the club had 6 or 7 teams at the time it was easy as 1sts , 3rds and 5ths played on a saturday and the other sides played sunday.

[Red Ink Cricket]

lucky you havent met our stroppy git of a second team skipper then lol. he thinks he should be 1sts when he isnt good enough and then thinks the 2nd team should be stronger than the first when hes skipper lol. nice guy after the game though if he wins

[richthekeeper]

Our selection is held between captains of the 1st, 2nd and 3rds as well as the 2 Sunday captains, the chairman of selectors and the club secretary.

The 1st XI always has the pick of the players and has been virtually unchanged this season. 2nds have whatever they want and the 3rds and 4ths is negotiated to give the right balance of ability, experience, youth and transport.

Sundays is usually about managing to get 2 teams on the pitch, regardless of ability.

In essence though everything is geared towards giving the 1st team the best chance, and thats exactly how it should be.

[Howzat]

At our club the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th team skippers meet after training on a Tuesday night and select the teams. First team skipper picks first and so on.

Then on the Friday night, a first teamer will usually drop out causing huge problems for all other teams.

[OMF]

our previous 1s captain picked who he wanted with no regard for who/how many that left to go into the 2s & 3s. He also failed to check properly that all those selected for the 1s were actually available in the first place, leading to several incidents of nabbing 2s players on the morning of the game, the knock on effect being the 3s would be left short with not enough time to find replacements. This, I think, led to a certain degree of animosity between the teams.

When taking over the job I decided to personally ensure we always had enough every week, and then pick teams jointly with 2s captain. We are fortunate in that the 3s captain is happy to have whatever team we've picked for him, but he knows we make the effort to ensure his team isnt absurdly weak (not always possible).

If anyone drops out they tell me, and I find a replacement, or ensure one is found. It saves tooing and froing between captains, lots of people asking around then finding we've got too many, or asking the same person twice etc....

Not an ideal system, but we dont have the luxury of a vast squad, so we cant really say to people "if you dont tell us by Tuesday, you havent got a game" because we'd end up cancelling half our 3s games!

(An indication of what a struggle this years been for players is that our 2s skipper has played more in the 1s than the 2s this year...)

[Lekka Global Alliance]

Slightly off topic but another one is "Who collects tea money from the players from all the teams and then hands those collected funds to the main Tea Money Man ?" 

[jamferg]

the first spotty teenager who is unfortunate enough to catch your eye in the changing room

[OMF]

the first spotty teenager who is unfortunate enough to catch your eye in the changing room

tried that, but our spotty teenagers take the money and it on Natch and Pork Scratchings....

[A-Swing-And-A-Miss]

Slightly off topic but another one is "Who collects tea money from the players from all the teams and then hands those collected funds to the main Tea Money Man ?"

The current club secretary(Stepped down from captaincy last year to improve his batting) plays for us so he usually collects the money.

I'm the only teenager in the team most weeks but they know if they gave the money to me it would "disappear"

[Byo]

Slightly off topic but another one is "Who collects tea money from the players from all the teams and then hands those collected funds to the main Tea Money Man ?" 

Person with the lowest score collects the tea money...

[bigboy]

Each player brings a plate with them.

[iand123]

Slightly off topic but another one is "Who collects tea money from the players from all the teams and then hands those collected funds to the main Tea Money Man ?" 

First drop or first duck usually collects the subs in my side

[iand123]

Then on the Friday night, a first teamer will usually drop out causing huge problems for all other teams.

Or sometimes a saturday morning, that even more fun!

[Ayrtek Cricket]

i have to do ours as vice captain but have introduced the lowest score rule as of last saturday as i got fed up of people throwing money at me after the game!

[Red Ink Cricket]

atleast they pay, some times its like getting blood from a stone. they either disappear home or into the bar for a drink then havent got enough! same old excuses from the same people though