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please follow this link
where you will find all the official County Reps and their contact details
08/09/2023
Conragtulations to Essex who won the 60+ 4th XI Championship and to Kent who won the 70+ 2nd XI Championship
All the Knock Out Cup Winners for 2023
Competition |
|
Date |
Winners |
|
Losing Finalists |
Venue |
Start Time |
| 60+ 1st XI Cup |
Tuesday |
5th September |
Surrey |
Beat |
Hertfordshire |
Ealing CC |
12:00 |
| 60+ 1st XI Vase |
Tuesday |
5th September |
Sussex |
Beat |
Oxfordshire |
Valley End CC |
12:00 |
| 60+ 1st XI Bowl |
Tuesday |
5th September |
Hampshire |
Beat |
Cornwall |
Stroud CC |
12:30 |
| 60+ 2nd XI Cup |
Tuesday |
5th September |
Wales |
Beat |
Hertfordshire |
Cropredy CC |
12:00 |
| 60+ 2nd XI Vase |
Tuesday |
5th September |
Worcestershire |
Beat |
Somerset |
Stroud CC |
12:30 |
| 60+ 2nd XI Bowl |
Tuesday |
5th September |
Yorkshire Ridings |
Beat |
Gloucestershire |
Oakamoor CC |
12:30 |
| 60+ 3rd XI Cup |
Tuesday |
5th September |
Sussex |
Beat |
Oxfordshire |
Valley End CC |
12:00 |
| 60+ 3rd XI Vase |
Tuesday |
5th September |
Gloucestershire |
Beat |
Hertfordshire |
Cropredy CC |
12:00 |
| 70+ 1st XI Cup |
Thursday |
7th September |
Gloucestershire |
Beat |
Surrey |
Thame Town CC |
12:30 |
| 70+ 1st XI Vase |
Thursday |
7th September |
Hertfordshire |
Beat |
Berks / Bucks |
Hutton CC |
12:30 |
31/08/2023
2023 AGM
The 2023 AGM will be held at Kidderminster Cricket Club, Chester Road North, Kidderminster, DY10 1TH on Thursday 30th November commencing at 12 noon prompt. Light refreshments will be served and tea/coffee available at no charge to attendees.
With the need to limit numbers attending, we are setting a maximum of 2 attendees per county. As last year this will be a face to face meeting with no zoom facility provided.
Please advise the Secretary Chris Dennis ([email protected]) who will be attending from your county so that we can finalise catering arrangements.
As per the Constitution, only the designated County representative (or alternate) attending may speak and vote although the Chair may invite relevant contributions from non County Reps. No proxy voting is allowed.
Chris Swadkin
21/05/2023
Important Reminders
(1) With teas increasingly being provided again as per the Playing Regulations (Para 11) if the Home team provide teas the Away team are obliged to pay £55 towards the cost of the teas. In the unlikely event of the away team preferring to bring their own tea the £55 must still paid.
(2) A number of Counties have still not supplied the venues for their Home matches or added them to Play Cricket. Consequently there are a lot of blank Venues on the fixtures pages of our website and currently over 70 blank Grounds on Play Cricket. Furthermore in some cases the Away teams have not been informed where they are playing.
As a matter of urgency can those counties who have not informed the website administrator or their opposition of their Home Venues please do so and similarly can those Counties who have yet to add their Grounds to Play Cricket please do so as soon as possible.
18/05/2023
We are now on Facebook
Here's the Link : Over 60s/70's Cricket on Facebook
New Features Page
Check out the new Features page via the link on the menu.
07/05/2023
UAE Over 60s Cricket Festival
The Sporta Tours Over 60’s cricket festival will be held in the UAE in early March 2024. Sporta Tours is an official sponsor of England Seniors Cricket and have an excellent track record of delivering events of this nature to a wide range of clients including: ECB/MCC/English Professional Counties/HMC Schools/England Seniors.
The festival represents an excellent opportunity for some warm weather matches and practice ahead of the English cricket season.
Details here:- UAE Over 60s Cricket Festival
Any English County Over 60s teams (joint teams welcome) wishing to express an interest to attend should contact
Roger Myall at
[email protected] for more details
12/01/2023
2023 Competition Organisers
| Competition |
Organiser |
| 60+ 1st XI |
Dave Murphy |
| 60+ 2nd XI |
Len Attard |
| 60+ 3rd XI |
Geoff Beale |
| 60+ 4th XI |
Derrick Sheldon |
| 70+ 1st XI |
Chris Swadkin / Bob Baxter |
| 70+ 2nd XI |
Chris Swadkin / Bob Baxter |
21/10/2022
Championship partnership with Stonehill Sports on ball supply and clothing
We have agreed a partnership with Stonehill Sports to supply the balls for the Championship for 2023, allied to a clothing offer for both the England 60+ and 70+ teams and, should Counties wish to, Counties as well. (This is explained in more detail below). The cricket ball supply has a break clause after 1 year whilst the clothing agreement is for 3 years.
The decision to switch to balls provided by Stonehill was taken after considerable discussion and trialling of alternative suppliers and was triggered by feedback from some quarters about the quality of the Dukes ball. We received bids from Tiflex; Lords and Stonehill as well as Dukes. The non Dukes suppliers’ balls were trialled in 2022 at England trial and International matches and other matches. The players were given the opportunity to comment regarding hardness - throughout & at the end of the innings, colour, shine - retention of shine or ability to shine, degree of lacquer & the impact this had on the performance of the ball, height of seam and the ability of the ball to retain its shape. The performance of each ball was not very different but the Stonehill offer once price and associated clothing offer were factored in was preferred. Stonehill balls have been used in West Indies domestic cricket in recent years – with Barbados CA renewing this year for a 4 year term.
Clothing for the England teams will be provided by Stonehill FREE OF CHARGE for the duration of the agreement – a significant reduction in the financial commitment we ask of players selected for England. This covers playing shirts, trousers, jumpers and caps as well as training kit and some casual wear.
A further offer by Stonehill is free playing kit to individual counties (15 shirts, trousers and sleeveless jumper for 2 teams with existing logos/advertising able to be retained ) – at retail prices a significant amount - but NOTE this offer is linked to the balls contract –as follows:
If Counties do NOT wish to take up the clothing offer the price per ball to Counties in 2023 will remain at £15.50 – a real terms cut given the inflation situation.
If Counties take up the clothing offer the price for the balls supplied to them will be higher at £20.50 per ball. Note there is no obligation on any County to take up the clothing offer from Stonehill. Obviously most counties already have their own kit supplier and players have a variety of legacy clothing. However it may be that Counties, particularly those with relatively low ball orders, may find there is benefit in paying £5 extra for balls in exchange for receiving playing kit worth upwards of £1000 approx. which could for instance be sold to players at a heavily discounted price and still provide a boost to funds. To repeat, this is a decision for each county to make – the Management Committee has no input to that.
IMPORTANT: Please provide the following information to the Secretary, Chris Dennis, at the latest by the AGM scheduled for 30th November.
1. How many balls you will require for 2023. The working assumption is that the number of matches to be played in each competition will be the same as 2022. Plus of course you may wish to add balls for extra matches you arrange.
2. Will you opt for the free clothing offer and increased price of ball option?
25/07/2022
Announcing Sporta Travel Arrangement
The Internationals Committee, led by the efforts of Paul Bradley, have been seeking sponsorship on behalf of the Championship and have succeeded in securing a 3 year travel and logistics partnership with Sporta Tours which the Management Committee have endorsed.
The Championship will benefit from payments by Sporta of £2,500 in Year one (payable on signing the agreement) and £3,500 in years 2 and 3. In addition should any County or its members arrange a tour with Sporta in this period the Championship will receive £50 per person on the trip. Also £100 per tour as a contribution to performance awards/mementos.
In return Sporta will have exclusive rights for all outbound Representative tours (note that visitors to UK are not bound by this). We will also facilitate marketing information from Sporta being received by Counties in membership so they may consider Sporta in arranging any tours they may be planning.
Prioritising of League Fixtures
Following the unprecedented and disappointing decision by an Eastern Group County to concede their 60+ 1st XI match despite having sufficient players available to fulfill the fixture and play their 60+ 2nd XI match instead please note this directive from the Management Committee.
All higher team fixtures must take precedence and must be honored if there are sufficient players available to play the match. We would always expect a higher team to make up any player shortage(s) with players from a lower team without exception.
It is also strongly advised that the Competition Organiser is consulted about any potential difficulties with honoring a fixture at the earliest opportunity as of course should be the opponents.
Full historic records for England Seniors can now be assessed via a new dedicated link on the Main Menu. There is a wealth of very interesting statistics in particular for England 60+ and England 70+. A big thank you to our official statistician Peter Hartland for his sterling efforts. Quick Link Here
GDPR - Privacy Statement
You will be aware from the AGM agenda item that following the work undertaken and a report compiled last year there has been a need for the Championship to ensure it is compliant with legislation in this area.
We have now added a Privacy Statement to the Menu options on the website. The Statement sets out the purposes for which we collect and process personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 / UKGDPR. It reflects valuable further input from Mike Griffin, a consultant in this area, who contributed to Andrew’s earlier report and for whose advice we are very grateful.
We are aware that many Counties already have in place similar Privacy Statements but as this Statement is generic it can serve as a template (edited where appropriate) for Counties who have not as yet addressed this issue.
Grandfather Rights Clarification
Where a player who previously met the 60+/70+ player qualification criteria and has represented a County for a number of years but no longer meets the qualifying criteria the Management Committee may grant dispensation for a player to continue playing for that County.
The criteria the Management Committee have agreed to use is that the player must have represented their County for a minimum of 3 years and played at least 10 matches for the County.
In addition any player who has played 50+ for a County but does not meet any of the 60+/70+ player qualification criteria may be granted dispensation by the Management Committee to continue representing their 50+ County provided they have represented the County for a minimum of 3 years and played at least 10 matches for the County at 50+ level.
Duckworth Lewis (DL)
As agreed at the 2019 AGM from 2020 onwards the Standard Version of Duckworth Lewis will be used for all matches in the 60+ and 70+ Competitions.
Please click on the following link to download a guide to using the DL Calculator.
DL Calculator Guide
Tho official title of the App is Duckworth Lewis PCS D/L Calculator. The image in the App Store looks like this :
How to Use The DL Calculator within the Play Cricket Scorer App
The following link takes you to an official demonstration on YouTube on how to use the DL Calculator within the Play Cricket Scorer app
YouTube DL Calculator Demonstration
DL stands for Duckworth Lewis which is a method of calculating a new target score for a team batting second in a limited overs cricket match that has been shortened mainly due to weather but could be for any other reason. The DL method is available in two formats, DL Standard and DLS Professional. When using the Professional method, an ‘S’ appears in the method name to represent Professor Stern who is responsible for the software used to perform DLS Professional Calculations. The two methods are not interchangeable, as they produce different target scores in the same scenarios.
The Play Cricket Scorer app has a DL Standard Calculator embedded in it, which is the version being demonstrated in the YouTube video on RunsWktsOvers. The DL Calculator is available as a standalone function and as an accessible feature while scoring.
The Play Cricket Scorer app is available to download free of charge on both iOS and Android devices (tablets and smart phones) from either the Apple Store or Google Play Store.
Code of Conduct, Constitution, Rules and Playing Regulations
The 2023 Rules can be read by Clicking Here
The 2023 Playing Regulations can be read by Clicking Here
The 2023 Constitution can be read by Clicking Here
The 2023 Code of Conduct can be read by Clicking Here
It is essential that all Captains, Organisers and Umpires are fully familiar with the latest Rules and Playing regulations.
11/04/2021
