Bassetlaw and District Cricket League Official Handbook 2013

64 An Overseas Player must be aged 23 or under on 1st April prior to the season for which he is first registered and is then eligible to play for the same club in each consecutive season. Therefore, any Overseas Player born prior to 1 st April 1989 is NOT eligible to play in this League in 2013. (iv) Category 3 (Exempt) – Overseas Player (Exempt) A Category 3 player will qualify under Category 3 (Exempt) if they fulfil ALL of the following conditions: a) They have been resident in this country for a period of eighteen months before the date of their request for registration. b) They have not been out of this country for longer than 35 days consecutively or 70 days in total during the previous two years. c) Any remuneration they receive from playing cricket is not their main source of income. Clubs are unable to assign any player to this category. Only the Player Registrar can perform this task and only after receipt and acceptance of all requested documentation. 5.3 Eligibility (i) Each BDCL club will be allowed to register one Category 2 Professional Player or one Category 3 Overseas Player. (ii) A Category 3 (Exempt) player may be employed by a club as a Category 2 Professional Player. They will be listed on the BDCL ECB Play-Cricket Website as a Category 3 (Exempt) player but identified by the Player Registrar as a Category 2 Professional Player. Rule 5.3(i) and 5.3(iii) shall apply. (iii) A player registered under Category 2 or Category 3 shall be eligible to play for a club’s First Eleven, providing that that team plays in Division 4 or above. (iv) A player who would ordinarily be registered within Category 3, but whose exceptional circumstances, in the opinion of the LMC, merits inclusion within the spirit of this rule, will be permitted to play on a purely recreational basis in Divisions 4 or below, or a club’s second XI should they play in a higher division (and the club does not have any additional teams), providing that they do not contravene the second paragraph of Rule 5.2(i) a) above. 5.4 Movement (i) Category 2 and Category 3 players may not play for more than one BDCL club in a season. (ii) No player may play for a club if they have already played Saturday cricket for, or are registered with, another Saturday club, either inside or outside the