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Playing Regulations
Subject to special conditions incorporated in these regulations, all matches must be played under Laws of Cricket as laid down at the time by MCC, together with any experimental laws currently in force.
1. All matches will commence at 11am.
2. The maximum length of any innings shall be 45 overs of 6 balls.
3. No bowler may bowl more than 9 overs.
4. Only balls supplied by the organisers shall be used.
5. If a bowler is unable to complete an over, the remaining balls shall be delivered by another bowler, such part of an over being counted as a full over as far as the replacement bowler's limit is concerned.
6. The result of a match shall be decided by one innings per side only and points will be awarded as follows:
4 points for a win
1 point for no result or abandoned game.
7. The team scoring the most runs shall be the winner in all uninterrupted matches. If the scores finish level, the team which has lost fewer wickets shall be the winner. If still equal, the winner shall be the team with the higher scoring rate over the first 25 overs of the innings. If still equal, the scoring rates shall be assessed over the first 24 overs, and so on. If the match has been restricted by virtue of Regulations 8, 9 and 10 below, and if both teams had the same quota of overs and the runs scored and wickets lost are equal, the winner shall be the team with the higher scoring rate over the first 20 overs of the innings (part overs to be discounted). If still equal, the period shall be reduced by one over at a time and scoring rates compared to determine the winner.
8. Playing regulations 9 and 10 (below) provide for the re-calculation of overs to be played when playing time is lost through late starts and/or bad weather. Regulations 9 and 10 shall be invoked only when a total of 1 hour 25 minutes or more has been lost.
9. If the start of play is delayed for any reason, the umpires may reduce the number of overs per team from 45 to not less than 25, in which case they will also reduce proportionately the number of overs permitted to each bowler. In these circumstances, the total overs to be played in the match shall be two overs for every complete period of seven minutes available for play up to 5.30pm, residual minutes shall be discounted, and the two teams shall bat for an equal number of overs.
10. In the event of bad weather interrupting play after the start, then:
(i) If this results in the suspension of the first innings, on the resumption of play, the number of overs remaining in the match shall be calculated at two overs per seven minutes of available playing time; each team shall bat for the same number of overs, which must be at least 25. In these circumstances, there shall be no reduction to the maximum number of overs which may be bowled by each player.
On the resumption of play, if there is sufficient time for the team batting second to bat for the same number of overs as the team batting first has already received, then they shall bat for the same number of overs (two overs per seven minutes) available up to the scheduled close of play, provided there are at least 25. The winners shall then be the team with the higher scoring rate over the two innings. (If the team batting first is all out in less than the quota of overs to which it was entitled when its innings closed, its scoring rate shall be calculated by dividing its score by its final quota of overs). If the scoring rates so calculated are equal, they shall be re-calculated at the end of the penultimate over of each innings, and so on;
(ii) If this results in the suspension of the innings of the team batting second then, on the resumption of play, its overs entitlement and the match result shall be determined as in Regulation 10(1).
If no further play is possible, then, provided that the team batting second has received not less than 15 overs, the winners shall be the team with the higher scoring rate over the two innings. If the team batting second has batted for as long as conditions permit and have not received 15 overs, but have scored sufficient runs to have the higher overall scoring rate had they batted for 15 overs, then they shall be the winners.
11. The tea interval shall normally be taken between innings and shall not exceed 20 minutes. If tea has been taken at some other time, such as during a stoppage for rain, the interval shall not exceed 10 minutes and no overs shall be lost.
12. In all matches, clubs shall observe the ECB Directive laying down the number of overs a bowler under the age of 18 on September 1st of the previous year, may bowl in a spell and in a match, and also the interval between spells. (Under 17 - 6/6, Under 18 - 7/7).
13. Each club must provide an umpire and a scorer for each match.
14. Relates to the revision of law 42.9 - the bowling of full high pitched deliveries. Any high full pitched delivery, regardless of its pace, which passes or would have passedabove the waist height of the batsman standing upright at the crease shall be called and signalled No ball by the bowlers end umpire. In the event of a bowler bowling a fast high full pitched delivery (ie. beamer) the umpire at the bowlers end , in addition, shall adopt the procedure of caution, followed by a final warning and action. However, if the umpire at the bowlers end considers that such a fast high full pitched delivery has been bowled deliberately at the batsman, he shall direct the captain of the fielding side to take the bowler off immediately without adopting the policy of caution and final warning. Some high full pitched deliveries may be wide of the striker. These are to be called and signalled No ball by the bowler's end umpire.
15. The umpires should apply a strict and consistent interpretation of Law 25.1 - the wide ball, in order to prevent negative bowling wide of the wicket or over the batsman's head. The following criteria should be adopted as a guide to umpires:
(i) If the ball passes either side of the wicket, sufficiently wide to make it virtually impossible for the striker to play a "normal cricket stroke" both from where he is standing or from where he should normally be standing at the crease, the umpire shall call and signal "Wide".
(ii) If the ball passes over the head of the striker standing upright at his crease, the umpire shall call and signal "Wide".
(iii) The above provisions do not apply if the striker makes contact with the ball or if it passes below head height, between the striker and the wicket.
16. The organisers decisions on all matters not covered by these rules shall be final.
