Cheshire Cricket League Handbook 2021

UKFast Cheshire Cricket League Match Rules 1st & 2nd XI Divisional League Championship a) Prepare League Fixtures each season. b) Ensure League Championship tables are kept accurate in a timely manner by participating clubs via the league's Play-Cricket website. c) Receive results of each match weekly and arrange publication of such in the press with the co-operation of Clubs. d) Consider and, where appropriate, impose fines for breaches of these rules. 17. Divisional League Championship Trophies and Runners-up Awards (or any other meritorious awards) shall be authorised by the Executive Committee and awarded annually on behalf of the UKFast Cheshire Cricket League. 18. To be eligible to participate in the League Championship a player must: a) Unless solely playing for second elevens, be a bona fide and fully paid up member of the Club which he represents b.1) Have (unless born in the United Kingdom) been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom since the 1st November of the preceding year. It shall, in any event, in relation to any appropriate player, be the duty of all member clubs to ensure that the requirements of any government department, from time to time in force, are complied with and if they are not then even if the prior requirements of this subparagraph have been complied with such player shall be deemed to be ineligible. b.2) It is provided that each club may, from time to time, register with the League not more than one overseas player who does not comply with the aforesaid requirements as to residence, but who must in all other respects comply with the requirements of this Rule. It is further required that all overseas players must be specially registered as such with the League. In this context an ‘overseas player’ shall mean any player not qualified to play for England by virtue of the Regulations governing the Qualification and Registration of Cricketers current at the date of the written application. All overseas players must submit, to the League, a copy of their visa. c) Unless solely playing for second elevens, where applicable have in all respects complied with the provisions of Rule 20. d) An overseas player shall not be eligible to participate in the League Championships if, since the 1st day of May in the year preceding the year during which his application to participate is made, he shall have played first class cricket as defined, from time to time, by the International Cricket Conference. e) No overseas player can be registered by any club after 30th June each year. 94