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Q:
Who needs to be registered?
A: Before being eligible
to participate in a Championship First or Second
Eleven match from Divisions One, Two, Three
or Four in the season, players of all ages (both
adults and colts) must be registered by the
Championship Registration Secretary, Naresh
Patel.
Q: How does a Player set about registering
his name?
A: A Player can obtain the
relevant registration form from the appointed
officer of his Club’s Management Committee.
Alternatively, the relevant registration form
can be printed off the Championship website.
There are separate registration forms for Resident
Players and for Non-Resident Players (see Rule
3.6 & 3.7). After signing and dating the
form, the Player must pass the completed form
to his Club’s Cricket Secretary for checking
and, if satisfied as to its correctness, counter-signing
and sending to the Championship Registration
Secretary.
Q: Rule 3.5 states that a Player who
has played at first-class level will be ineligible
to play in a Championship match within the next
twelve months, but what is meant by first-class
level?
A: The International Cricket
Council Rules and Regulations define a match
of three or more days’ duration between two
sides of eleven players played on natural turf
pitches on international standard grounds and
substantially conforming to standard playing
conditions as a first-class fixture. A comprehensive
list of the competitions that are regarded as
first-class, e.g. Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, may be
found on the ICC pages of the Cricinfo website.
Q: The registration form for Resident
Players requires the Resident Player who was
born outside the British Isles to state the
date of most recent entry into the British Isles,
but is that information really appropriate in
the case of a Resident Player who may have been
resident in the British Isles for many years?
A: No, not necessarily! In
that situation, the Resident Player born outside
the British Isles may simply write ‘Permanently
resident in the British Isles for longer than
two years’. A similar response would be acceptable
in the case of a Resident Player who has resided
permanently in the British Isles for more than
two years but has taken a holiday, or spent
a part of a student gap year, abroad in the
months before the start of the season.
Q: When must the registration of Players
be done?
A: Member Clubs are asked
to send completed registration forms to the
Registration Secretary by not later than the
end of March in order that
the registration process can be completed before
the start of the season. The names of registered
Non-Resident Players will be posted on the Championship
website in the same way as has been done during
the last three years.
Q: Will the information supplied by
each Player be made available to a third party,
for example, for marketing purposes?
A: No! The Championship website
will list for each Member Club the names of
all of that Club’s registered Non-Resident Players
(and, at a date yet to be decided, registered
Resident Players, including Colts) and the unique
registration number of each of those Players.
However, in the event that a Player is suspended
by the Championship Disciplinary Sub-Committee
from playing in a Championship match for four
or more weeks, then that Player’s full name
and home address and Club will be reported to
the Middlesex Cricket Board. In the case of
a more extensive ban, the Board may decide to
inform other cricket leagues in Middlesex and
neighbouring County Cricket Boards – a ban from
playing cricket in the Championship is a nation-wide
ban from playing.
Q: What is the procedure for new Players
who join the Club after the end of March?
A: The relevant registration
form must be completed and signed and sent to
the Championship Registration Secretary. On
receipt, the Championship Registration Secretary
will check the details and, if satisfied, will
register the Player’s name, allocate a unique
registration number, and advise the Club.
Q: What is the responsibility of the
Captains?
A: Before the toss, Captains
should exchange team sheets (where Panel Umpires
are appointed, pass the team sheets to the Umpires).
After the match, the Captains of both sides
must complete and email a report sheet listing
the names and Player registration numbers of
both sides so that the Championship Registration
Secretary receives the report sheet by the Friday
following the date of the match. The Registration
Secretary will then check the players’ names
and registration numbers against the master
registration database.
Q: If a selected Player cries off
at the last minute or fails to turn up, will
it be permissible to play an unregistered Player?
A: No! If no other registered
Player is available to take the place of the
missing registered Player, the side must play
‘one short’. Hence, it is advisable for a Club
to register all likely Players, including Senior
Colts. If a side is discovered playing a Player
under a false identity, then that side’s Club
faces the prospect of expulsion from the Championship.
After all, a key reason for introducing a registration
system for all Players is that in past seasons
a few Clubs have played unregistered and/or
ineligible Non-Resident Players.
Q: Will it be necessary to re-register
a Player immediately his personal details (e.g.
home address, phone number) change?
A: No, not immediately if
the change occurs during the season! However,
a fresh registration form must be completed
the following year before the start of the new
season.
Q: Will it be necessary to re-register
a Resident Player before the start of the new
season?
A: No, not if his personal
details are unchanged from the previous season.
Q: Will it be necessary to re-register
a Non-Resident Player before the start of the
new season?
A: Yes, either as a Non-Resident
Player, or as a newly-qualified Resident Player.
Q: Will a Club be fined if the team
sheet card is returned late, or if a Player
takes part in a match before having been formally
registered?
A: Yes! Penalty points will
be deducted from the individual Eleven (not
both the Club’s sides). The scale is set out
in Rule 3, Fixed Administration Penalties, of
the Championship Disciplinary Rules. |
