Topic: Your League, how would you change it? (Read 6507 times)

edge · « **Reply #15 on:** February 12, 2016, 12:35:33 PM »

Quote from: Northern monkey on February 12, 2016, 12:15:51 PM

Teas after the games a good idea

Leg side wides? No, for the simple reason, it's the umpires job
Yes I know that's a whole can of worms

Majority of amateur cricket doesn't always have (or never has) neutral umpires though. Legside wides makes life so much easier, and why not? Realistically if a seamer puts it down 6 inches outside leg, it's very hard to get hold of it - and professional limited overs cricket is legside wides too, why not amateur.

Butterfingerz · « **Reply #16 on:** February 12, 2016, 12:38:31 PM »

Quote from: Northern monkey on February 12, 2016, 12:15:51 PM

Teas after the games a good idea

Leg side wides? No, for the simple reason, it's the umpires job
Yes I know that's a whole can of worms

Leg side wides... all depends on the standard of cricket you're playing, the higher up you've got to have them. Below that you're potentially screwing up a bright young prospect because he puts 2 an over down the leg side, as a skipper in a tight run chase can you afford it?

Tea - Between innings everytime! I umpire now and believe me after standing for 3 1/2 hours I'm ready for a cup of tea and a bite or two to eat. Lay on some nibbles at the end of a game and players will stay and have a beer.

Disco · « **Reply #17 on:** February 12, 2016, 12:46:20 PM »

Leg side wides is fine in 1st team but it got rolled out in 2nd XI in ours and that's a bit of nightmare tbh, you've got young lads who haven't quite got the control yet getting chopped after a couple of 8-10 ball overs and not bowling again, doesn't really do the lad any good. Fair enough if they are miles wide but we also play the marker on the off side wide which reduces the margin for error further and poor quality umpires take as gospel, if you're bowling out swingers it's way to easy to get wided on a ball that's beaten the bat.
Tea at the end is decent call, saves wheeling 14 overs off with a belly full of butties, something to soak the evenings beer up with too!

Northern monkey · « **Reply #18 on:** February 12, 2016, 12:57:58 PM »

Tea between innings might be fine for an umpire, but not much good for an opening bowler/batter or keeper
And if it encourages even in the slightest, oppos to stay a little longer, then that's got to be good for the club?

Leg side wides? I don't get it, how is it good for amateur cricket? It's not encouraging leg side shots, or bowlers to bowl inswinging Yorkers ?
If it's miles down leg then fair enough, but again, let the umpire use their experience etc within existing rules, yes I know it's potentially one less hassle for umpires
The umpire things a nightmare these days due to a lack of people willing to do it, we offer 50 quid a game plus expenses and are struggling to find someone, so I do appreciate concerns

Butterfingerz · « **Reply #19 on:** February 12, 2016, 01:03:23 PM »

�50 a game plus expenses....more than we get in the Yorkshire Premier Leagues!

Just had some fixtures through for 2016 some are 100 mile round trip for �50 expences. Out of that I've my kit to provide plus ongoing courses to pay too! Don't do it for the money though just to stay involved after playing....can highly recommend it for anyone coming to the end of the playing days!

smilley792 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 12, 2016, 01:04:16 PM »

I'd honestly only play midweek of there wasn't a tea mid innings, sod going. All day with no food.
And yes I open the batting.

Leg side wides, it's quite interesting as when we have no umpires midweek, we use a leg side wide rule, as it's fair on both sides, not ram can be biased, down leg hasn't touched owt, it's a wide.
when there is umpires there isn't a leg side wide rule, as the umpire is meant to be neutral and doesn't unfairly judge them.

Northern monkey · « **Reply #21 on:** February 12, 2016, 01:21:52 PM »

Difference between Yorkshire and Oxfordshire sir
Me personally, I'd do it for nowt, just to still be involved
I nearly fell on the floor when I saw what they were offering

Butterfingerz · « **Reply #22 on:** February 12, 2016, 01:23:20 PM »

What do you guys pay in match subs then?

Northern monkey · « **Reply #23 on:** February 12, 2016, 01:28:12 PM »

Not sure this year, think it's still a tenner, could be wrong

dcullen8 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 12, 2016, 01:51:39 PM »

See alot of people paying north of �10, were charged �6.50.

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Karlo84 · « **Reply #25 on:** February 12, 2016, 02:00:11 PM »

Our league has introduced leg side wides for top 3 divisions. I think this is a good call (and was voted in by the clubs at the agm). It leads to a better standard of cricket, although I agree for lower level cricket it could be counter productive as previously mentioned. The thing I would change is the introduction of a 30 yard circle, it frustrates me no end when you play in, or hear of a game where the side batting first has scored heavily then just spread the field from ball one - p*ss weak cricket.

p.s. north of �10 per game! wowsers, we only pay �20 for our yearly subs and �5 per game. guess we are lucky like that.

RightArmLedge · « **Reply #26 on:** February 12, 2016, 02:05:49 PM »

We made the decision before last season to up it from �8/adult and �3/student to �10/adult and �5/student.
The main reason was for practicality! People are more likely to have notes than coins so it meant that paying match fees was a simple process for everyone involved. None of this 'I don't have any coins' or 'I've only got �10' malarkey.
Sundays are now �5 for all ages which is again easier admin wise

Woodyspin · « **Reply #27 on:** February 12, 2016, 03:03:05 PM »

We charge �85 sign on �10 for every game. To be fair in our area this is cheap! Closer clubs charge �130 sign on plus match fees north of �10

edge · « **Reply #28 on:** February 12, 2016, 03:19:24 PM »

�150 all in or �60 and �7 match fees (�2 for t20) for us. I played slightly over 30 games last season so good value!

Seniorplayer · « **Reply #29 on:** February 12, 2016, 03:59:31 PM »

Quote from: kenbriooo on February 12, 2016, 07:45:18 AM

I'm aware thst we've had similar threads in the past, but they have mainly been about cricket as a whole, this was aimed at how you would change your league.

Some of the other suggestions for our league were to allow players in the lower divisions to swap and share players - which I think is a good idea.

Introduce fielding circles for the top 3 divisions rather than currently just the top league - I can see the reasoning behind this but divisions 2&3 don't have neutral umpires so might be hard to enforce.

Another one that I don't think will get through due to it being a logistical nightmare is making 6/8 divisions into North and South divisions. The idea is to save traveling which is a good thing but trying to organise who goes into North or South each year would be a nightmare.

One thing that my club used to suggest but never got voted through was the introduction of a bonus point each if you provided a designated umpire and or scorer for the duration of the game.

Be interesting to see how traditional or forward thinking some leagues are.

The WCL dropped there north and south divisions around 4 seasons ago this caused problems due to the distance clubs were required to travel to Saturday away games one of them being that lost there Sunday sides.

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