Bassetlaw and District Cricket League Handbook 2022

Section D P a g e | 44 Qualification & Registration of Players The rules under Section D are subject to change at short notice and any regulations posted on the BDCL website will always take precedence . Clubs will be notified by the League Management Committee of any changes, but the final responsibility to ensure full compliance rests unequivocally with the club and its committee. If a player is deemed a professional, then playing them as an amateur is treated as illegally employing a foreign worker. Guidance on registering U16 players, Loan players and Transfers can be found on the League Website. 1 Qualification All Players 1.1 Before any player may play in a BDCL competition the player must be qualified as follows: • Qualified to play for England as defined in the ECB regulations governing the qualification and registration of cricketers (see Rule 1.19) or an Overseas Non-Professional in accordance with Rules 1.9 to 1.16, or a Professional Overseas Player in accordance with Rules 1.17 and 1.18. • Have formal membership of a BDCL Club. • Be registered with the club via Play-Cricket (see Rule 2). • Not be registered with another Saturday League Club. • Have no current disciplinary suspension from another cricket authority. • Have no outstanding commitments to another club. • If on a County ground-staff, be unregistered. 1.2 No player who has played Saturday cricket for another club, either inside or outside the BDCL, is permitted to play for a club in the BDCL after 31 July. This rule does not apply if the club that the player is registered to has fully withdrawn from the BDCL during the season. This rule does not apply to any U17 player at Midnight on 31 August in the year preceding the current season. Therefore, this rule does NOT apply to anyone born after 31 August 2004. 1.3 Players who are away from their main place of residence because of full-time education, the services or work may be ‘Dual League Registered’, but will need to check, as some Leagues do not allow it. The Match Administrator, having