8. Combine each of the almost similar regulations

This is more difficult than it at first seems (which explains why it hasn't happened before...)

There are 3 sets of Playing Regulations

• Saturday competition (2 dayers, 1 dayers and finals), 
• Sunday 50 Over competition 
• Kookaburra Cup Super 20 competition.

These are presented separately on the website. ( www.qsdca.com/au/play-regulations )

In 2018 an A5 booklet was made by simply placing all three documents in series then print and staple. (Check the page numbers if you don't believe me...)


While many individual regs are similar, there are some which are very different.
Further down is a detailed analysis of all this

Warehouse has a common regulations document and a separate document for Saturday and Sunday games. I don't like this because it can make certain rules hard to find.

Having all 3 documents published together effectively acts as a promotion for the other competitions for people who do not realise that Super 20 (say) exists.


Here's a reorganisation and renumbering.
Broadly,

• 0-6 is Pre-season Organisation SAME IN ALL COMPETITIONS
• 7-9 is Pre-Game Setup MOSTLY THE SAME  IN ALL COMPETITIONS
• 10-12 is Two Day match Saturday stuff SATURDAY TWO DAYERS ONLY
• 13-15  are actually repeated in 26 and 29
• 20-29.1 is Limited over rules A DIFFERENT VERSION FOR EACH COMPETITION
• ..... have sections for Sat 1 dayers, Sunday 1 dayers, Super 20
• 30-39 is unusual things that happen at games (mostly) SAME IN ALL COMPETITIONS
• ....................(except 33, 37, 38, 39)
• 40-48 Code of Behaviour, Player Protection, Commissioners SAME IN ALL COMPETITIONS
• ...............maybe put all the Appendixes last.....
• 50 Awards A BIT OF A FISH OUT OF WATER? (includes all competitions)

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ABM, 21-Mar-2019
neatened up a bit 1-Apr-2019
neatened some more 17-Jun-2019

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Here's a careful analysis. 
These ones are THE SAME.

• Glossary
• Reg.1. Application
• Reg.2. Affiliation Of Clubs And Teams
• Reg.3. Registration Of Players
• Reg.4. Players Changing Grades
• Reg.5. Players Changing Clubs (this should be added to Sunday 50 and Super 20) 
• Reg.6. Grading Of Teams, Matches And Grounds
• Reg.7. The Team List  (replacement player parts removed for Sunday 50 and Super 20)
• Reg.8. Clothing

These are (mostly) the same except for a difference in the number. (Sometimes some minor adjustments might be considered)

TITLE	SATURDAY	SUNDAY 50	SUPER 20
Kit Balls And Equipment	9.12-9.16	9	9
One Day Wides	11.14	19	18
Waist High Non-Pitching Balls	9.5	17.1-17.3	14.1-14.3
Free Hit	NO FREE HITS	18	15
Net Run rate	NOT USED	26.6	20.6
Fitness of Grounds	17	29	24
Forfeits	9.22	10	23
Provisions for Team Withdrawals	9.23	26.4	20.4
Runners for Injured Batsmen	9.20	23	36 RUNNERS DISALLOWED
Player Absences	9.21	24	29
Notifying Scores and Match Results	14	25	25
Liquor	13	11	10
Drinks Breaks	9.6-9.11	22	5.5 DRINKS DISALLOWED
Finals	15 DIFFERENT, See ELSEWHERE	27	21
Premiers	See ELSEWHERE	28	22
Appendix Codes of Behaviour	1	30	26
Appendixes Player Protection	19	31	27
Behaviour Reports Against Players	20	32	28
Appeals Of Player Behaviour Findings	21	33	29
Scope Of Penalties	22	34	30
Breaches Of Playing Regulations By Clubs	23	35	31
Conduct Detrimental To The Spirit Of The Game	24	36	32
Power To Make Regulations	25	37	33
Request For Change Of Playing Regulations	26	38	35

These are different (and mostly can't be made the same)

TITLE	SATURDAY	SUNDAY 50	SUPER 20
Hours of Play	9.1-9.3	13	5.1-5.4
One Day Matches	11.1-11.3	14.1	11.1
Length Of Innings	11.4-11.7	14-15	11
Number Of Overs Per Bowler	11.8	16	13
Over Rate Penalties/Compulsory Closure	11.4.2 -11.4.7	14.2-14.3.1	16
Short Pitched Balls/Deliveries	One Dayers 11.17-11.19.1	17.4-17.6	14.4-14.7
The Result/Result of the Game	One Dayers 11.10-11.13+11.5.3	21	19
Points/Bonus points	One Dayers 11.20-11.21	26	20

 These are unique to a particular competition

           Two day Saturday matches

• Minimum Overs For Two Day Matches/End Of Play Day One/Tea Interval/The Ball (Sat 10.1-10.25
• Play Abandoned on First Day (Sat 9.17)
• Waist High Non-Pitching Balls (Sat 9.5)
• Short Pitched Balls/Deliveries/Free Hit (Sat 10.26-10.28.1)
• Points/Bonus points/Net Run Rate (Sat 10.29-10.30)
• Season Awards (Sat 16)

          Super 20

• Fielding Restrictions (Super 20 12)
• Timed Out (Super 20 17)

3. Reg 8 Clothing

• The team shirts with fifty adverts on 'em.
• The daggy, half clean grey shirt/pants
• Sneakers with fluoro stripes
• Black socks
• Hats that look like Harry Butler or a day trip to Dreamworld...

Is this what we want?


It could be worse.

• Thongs, shorts, singlets.
• No shirts.
• Gorilla costumes. Spaceman outfits.

It could also be better....

In the old days you would have argued about costs. You'd say something like players can't afford an expensive uniform so let 'em wear what they have.

But in other rules we are insisting that bowlers wear spiked shoes (best part of $100 for even the cheapest pair) and all batters wear batting helmets (best part of another $100 for even the cheapest kit.)

This means either cost is not a valid objection for clothing (you have the money to spend) or a more acute one (the money's been spent on shoes and helmets !!)


Here's two ideas that we could pursue.

Relax the Team Shirt rule.
Once approved Team shirts must be worn by the whole team. (Sat Reg 8.2.3) As inevitably happens there's gonna be a case later in the season when a fill-in player will be unable to find a conforming team shirt to wear.

So in this case allow up to two players per team shirt team to wear a white shirt.

Introduce some actual penalty for shirt violations.
What's worse is the slack attitude to clothing and clothing rules that many teams seem to adopt.

• They play in unapproved team shirts.
• They allow players to take the field in non-white shirts.
• Umpires seem to be not reporting this. (The ONLY requirement is to report the violation to Management Committee.) 
• The Management Committee is unable to enforce this this. I can tell you that the VERY few reports ManCom receives are mostly not acted on. I have minuted the ManCom for 4 seasons and I can't tell what our attitude to this is.
• Teams aren't interested in enforcement either.

So ambit claim time.....

• Umpires to inspect clothing and report in writing each game. (Add a box to the Spirit of Cricket Form)

And / or

• Captains to inspect opposition teams and report in writing each match in their MyCricket abstract.

• $100 fine for each team with non-regulation clothing/$10 fine for each player with non-regulation clothing

And / or

• Bonus points for each game awarded only on receipt of opposition captain's good report. (VERY open to corruption....possibly not a very good idea.)

Tell me why we shouldn't do it....... (please note: I'm being provocative.)

(Note: There's gonna be a "Future of Subbies Cricket Convention" after the end of the season where this topic will be thrashed out so I think that suggestion is only half serious..... promise.)

I think this is way too hard to address satisfactorily. I think abandon it for 2019.

ABM 18-Feb-2019 
Revised 9-Jun-2019

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2. Reg 15 Play-offs and Premiership Matches

This one has probably been coming for a while.

In the Plain English Rewrite Update of 2016, this regulation went from 2 pages of dense, hard to follow things to a 1 and a bit pages condensed lump of loopy hard to follow stuff.

I remember predicting at the time that now regulations are written in some language that is somewhere near to approaching easily understood, the reaction is gonna be "that's funny... needs fixing"....

Well... this has some issues.

Reg 15.4 lists the ways to rank teams in the competition ladder if they are on equal points at the end of competition rounds. With bonus points in use this is unlikely to actually happen but it's useful for that one time when it does.
But the problem is 15.4 is clumsily cited later in regulation 15.5.3 when it comes to deciding the winner in a drawn final.

As an example I umpired a final in March 2018 where the two teams played a first innings tie. The home team assumed that because they had top rank on the season ladder, they were victorious. After the game I checked the outright wins and the first innings wins (they were the same.) Then I did a Season average countback as in Regulation 15.4.3 and the margin was about 3 hundreths of a point.

This led to Management Committee making a decision under Regulation 15.6.

Why did the players, umpires and administrators blithely assume finals of all kinds are decided by first or second innings win or, in the case of a draw, whoever was higher on the ladder.
I guess that's what they expect and what they want.


So let's make it say that...

Also we should take the opportunity to remove the confusing term "Playoff" and to introduce a clause about "no pay the bills, no play the finals".

OLD REGULATIONS	PROPOSED NEW WORDING
15. PLAY OFFS AND PREMIERSHIP MATCHES	15. SEMI FINAL AND GRAND FINAL MATCHES
15.1 After completion of the competition round of matches teams placed first to fourth in each grade will play in PLAY OFF MATCHES played over two (2) days.	15.1 After completion of the competition round of matches teams placed first to fourth in each Grade will play in SEMI FINAL MATCHES played over two (2) days.
15.2 First PLAY OFF MATCHES will be between teams placed First versus Fourth and Second versus Third.	15.1.1 First SEMI FINAL MATCHES will be between teams placed First versus Fourth and Second versus Third.
15.3 PREMIERSHIP will be decided by a final match played over two (2) days between the two (2) teams who win the first PLAY OFF MATCHES.	15.1.2 The PREMIERSHIP will be decided by a GRAND FINAL MATCH played over two (2) days between the two (2) teams who win the first SEMI FINAL MATCHES.
	15.2 Nil
	15.3 All Clubs playing in SEMI FINAL MATCHES must be in good financial standing with the association.
	15.3.1 Any club not in good financial standing may be excluded by the Management Committee from playing in SEMI FINAL MATCHES
	15.3.2 Any team(s) that are excluded from playing in SEMI FINAL MATCHES will be replaced by the next highest placed team(s) in that Grade as determined in regulation 15.4
DETERMINATION OF PLACINGS AND WINNERS	DETERMINATION OF PLACINGS AND WINNERS
15.4 If any teams finish level on the same points, the order of placings will be determined hierarchically as follows:-	15.4 The order of placings in each Grade will be determined hierarchically as follows.
15.4.1 Most number of outright wins.	15.4.1 Most number of competition points.
15.4.2 Most number of first innings wins.	15.4.2 Most number of wins (outright wins plus first innings wins)
15.4.3 Best average calculated by deducting the team’s bowling average from the team’s batting average.	15.4.3 Most number of outright wins
	15.4.4 Least number of losses (outright losses plus first innings losses)
	15.4.5 Best average calculated by deducting the team’s bowling average from the team’s batting average.
	DETERMINATION OF WINNERS
15.4.4 The team finishing in first place according to regulation 15.4 are the Minor Premiers.	15.5 The team finishing in first place according to regulation 15.4 are the Minor Premiers.
15.5 The team that wins a PLAY OFF MATCH or PREMIERSHIP MATCH will be the team that achieves the most points according to regulations 10.29.	15.6 The team that wins a SEMI FINAL or GRAND FINAL MATCH will be the team that achieves the most match points according to regulation 10.29.
15.5.1 Note that this excludes bonus points.	15.6.1 Note that this excludes bonus points.
15.5.2 For example: should the lower placed team score 160 runs in its completed first innings and the higher placed team score 120 runs in its completed first innings, then the higher placed team must win the match outright to win.	15.6.2 For example: should the lower placed team score 160 runs in its completed first innings and the higher placed team score 120 runs in its completed first innings, then the higher placed team must win the match outright to be declared the winner.
15.5.3 In any PLAY OFF MATCH or PREMIERSHIP MATCH in which both teams achieve the same points such as a draw, tie or an abandoned match, the winner will be decided as in regulation 15.4	15.6.3 In any SEMI FINAL or GRAND FINAL MATCH in which both teams achieve the same match points such as a draw, a tie or an abandoned match, the highest placed team of both finalists at the end of the competition round of matches,  winner will be as determined in regulations 15.4.1 to 15.4.5. , will be declared as the winner.
15.6 The Management Committee will have the sole authority to determine winners in the event of any disputes resulting from PLAY OFF MATCHES or PREMIERSHIP MATCHES..	15.7 The Management Committee will have the sole authority to determine winners in the event of any disputes resulting from SEMI FINAL or GRAND FINAL MATCHES.
15.6.1 Any such decisions made will be final and conclusive.	15.7.1 Any such decisions made will be final and conclusive.
VENUES FOR PLAY OFF MATCHES	VENUES FOR SEMI FINALS AND GRAND FINALS
15.7 The venue for all PLAY OFF MATCHES will be determined by the Management Committee in a manner favouring the team finishing with the highest place according to regulation 15.4.	15.8 The venue for all SEMI FINAL and GRAND FINAL MATCHES will be determined by the Management Committee in a manner favouring the team finishing with the highest place according to regulation 15.4.
15.7.1 In some circumstances the Management Committee will determine the venues for the PLAY OFF MATCHES and PREMIERSHIP MATCHES with respect to ground facilities and equipment	15.8.1 In some circumstances the Management Committee will determine the venues for the SEMI FINAL and GRAND FINAL MATCHES with respect to ground facilities and equipment
HOURS OF PLAY	HOURS OF PLAY
15.8 The hours of play for all PLAY OFF MATCHES will be: Session 1 10am to 12 Noon, Session 2 12.40 pm to 2.40 pm, Session 3 3pm to 5pm	15.9 The hours of play for all SEMI FINAL and GRAND FINAL MATCHES will be: Session 1 10am to 12 Noon, Session 2 12.40 pm to 2.40 pm, Session 3 3pm to 5pm
15.9 Play may continue for a maximum of thirty (30) minutes with a minimum of seven (7) overs to compensate for any time lost during that day.	15.10 Play may continue for a maximum of thirty (30) minutes with a minimum of seven (7) overs to compensate for any time lost during that day.
15.9.1 For example: 20 minutes lost due to rain at 3pm, play extends to 5.20pm	15.10.1 For example: 20 minutes lost due to rain at 3pm, play extends to 5.20pm
15.9.2 For example: 90 minutes lost due to bad light from 10am, play extends to 5.30pm	15.10.2 For example: 90 minutes lost due to bad light from 10am, play extends to 5.30pm
15.9.3 For example: 40 minutes lost at 3.30pm, slow over rate means minimum overs completed at 5.15pm, play extends to 5.45pm	15.10.3 For example: 40 minutes lost at 3.30pm, slow over rate means minimum overs completed at 5.15pm, play extends to 5.45pm
MINIMUM OVERS	MINIMUM OVERS
15.10 Play will not cease on any day unless the minimum number of overs has been bowled.	15.11 Play will not cease on any day unless the minimum number of overs has been bowled.
15.11 On each day the initial minimum of overs will be ninety (90).	15.11.1 On each day the initial minimum of overs will be ninety (90).
15.12 Minimum overs will be calculated as in two day matches in regulation 10.1 to 10.13.	15.11.2 Minimum overs will be calculated as in two day matches in regulation 10.1 to 10.13.
	15.12 Nil
PLAYER ELIGIBILITY FOR PLAYOFF MATCHES	PLAYER ELIGIBILITY FOR SEMI FINAL AND GRAND FINAL MATCHES
15.13 To be eligible for a PLAY OFF MATCH a player must have appeared in at least four (4) matches in the current season in that particular grade or a lower grade.	15.13 To be eligible for a SEMI FINAL or GRAND FINAL MATCH a player must have appeared in at least four (4) matches in the current season in that particular grade or a lower grade.
15.14 Any exceptions to this rule must be submitted to the Management Committee for approval in accordance with regulation 4.	15.14 Any exceptions to this rule must be submitted to the Management Committee for approval in accordance with regulation 4.
UMPIRES IN PLAY OFF MATCHES	UMPIRES IN SEMI FINAL AND GRAND FINAL MATCHES
15.15 Official umpires will stand in all PLAY OFF MATCHES.	15.15 Official umpires will stand in all SEMI FINAL  and GRAND FINAL MATCHES.
15.16 If official umpires are not available, neutral umpires who have passed umpire training examinations approved by the Management Committee will stand.	15.16 If official umpires are not available, neutral umpires who have passed umpire training examinations approved by the Management Committee will stand.
GLOSSARY
Additions	"Match points" means points awarded to each team for the result of a match as in Sat Reg 10.29 10.30 11.20, 11.21or Sunday Reg 26 or Super 20 Reg 20  (Numbering subject to change with proposal in 8. New Numbering...)
	"Competition points" or "ladder points" means accumulated match points for all completed matches in a season.
	"Good financial standing" means a member of the association has no invoices outstanding for greater than 60 days.

Notes:

1. The names "Play-off and Premiership matches" are replaced by the more recognisable terms "semi finals and grand finals". 
2. This will require correction in some other regs to be completed. (Namely Regs 7.11.12, 4.5.2, 4.5.1, Glossary, 24A.5.2, 24.5.2)
3. Reg 15.4 is reorganised to be useable for deciding placings and winners clearly for both competition points and match points in a final.
4. The new 15.6.3 is now briefer.
5. In 15.3 a better term than 'good financial standing' is needed to describe clubs/teams who have not paid their bills.
6. Revise any use of the word "points" in Reg 15 to make it clear which kind of points it is. (i.e. competition points or match points) 
7. Reg 15.8 may be improved if a right of appeal is included.

 Thanks to Adam Brady and Mark Irwin for their suggestions.

This has a few kinks to be ironed out yet... 

ABM, 18-Mar-2019
Revised 9-Jun-2019

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