WELCOME2015 NJSBCL

ANNUAL GENERAL BODY MEETING

Saturday, March 28th, 2015

NJSBCL - VISION

ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE TENNIS BALL CRICKET

NJSBCL Management Structure

TRUSTEESEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

TrusteesOWN THE LEAGUE VOLUNTEER BODY – NOT FOR PROFITOVERSIGHT ON OVERALL OPERATIONS

1. AMIN KHATRI2. AVINASH GAJE3. RAHUL GUPTA4. RANJITH RAJAN5. SACHIN SINHA

NJSBCL Executive Committee 2015

• NOMINEES PROPOSED BY TEAMS EVERY YEAR

• SELECTED THROUGH A POLLING PROCESS BY TEAM CAPTAINS IF NOMINATIONS EXCEED 15% OF TEAMS

• RESPONSIBLE FOR DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS

AvinashGaje

Bhushan Gupta

DhrumitDesai

NomanAli

RahulGupta

RamGummadi

RanjithRajan

RizwanAhsan

RohitTandon

SachinSinha

SrivatsanRaja-gopalan

Tapas Mallick

VipinBhardwaj

EC Working Areas • Communications• Marketing and Public Relations• Scheduling• Rules and Umpiring• Dispute Resolution• Grounds• I.T./Website• Event Management• Special Projects / ACF Liaison• Finance

I.T. / Website

Score Sheet Validation & Results Points table management Statistics & reports from website NJSBCL website maintenance

Communications

Co-ordinate messaging across the Website, member forum, Facebook and Twitter

EC Working Areas

Dispute Resolution

Resolve all disputes, co-coordinating with other groups as needed.

Grounds

Check for availability for grounds that are managed by the league (Johnson's Park, Philips Park and all other NJSBCL managed Grounds)

Work as liaison between teams and county officers to facilitate permits

Insurance

EC Working Areas

Scheduling

Create the schedule for the main league tournament Schedule and format for 8*8 events

Rules and Umpiring

Publish the rule book prior to start of first round Update the Umpiring Guidelines as necessary Assist Dispute Committee to resolve conflicts arising due to

interpretation of rule book

EC Working Areas

Event Management

Plan and manage the events of NJSBCL (AGM, Finals, 8x8, Awards Nite)

Finance Committee

Manage funds, develop & present balance sheet, income statements of NJSBCL

Approve expenses of league Yearly tax filing of league & Prepare league for audits Not for profit registration renewals

EC Working Areas

Process Improvements / Special Projects

Work with teams to identify improvement opportunities, develop new procedures & implement

Special projects – Youth Cricket Promotion ACF Liaison

Public Relations & Marketing

Work with Corporate Sponsors Liaisoning with NJ government officials Advertising during community events & other outreach events

EC Working Areas

Junior NJSBCL 2015Cricket for kids age group 8 to 15 year old.

Will be played with Soft Ball. Leather ball will be introduced to talented kids at end of season.

Season starts April and ends in September. Will be played in the late afternoon over the weekends. Will have 2 centers, Edison and S. Brunswick Will be requesting applications later this season.

2015 Corporate Sponsors

Schedule 2015 Highlights 40 teams division I . 60 Teams Division II. 2 teams are on a wait-list. Division I : 19 round Robin Games . Knockout starts from with 16 teams.

Division II: Two rounds, 15 round I and 3 round II games. Round I : Teams are divided in 4 Groups. Group A plays D and Group B plays C Round II : Groups are merged to form logical ranking from 1- 30 . Teams play

additional 3 games to complete 18 games. Knock out starts with 32 teams.

Double Elimination: Starts with Round of 8 (Qtr Finals) for both Division.

Home/Away games are kept even and uniform. This can change as some teams have blanket permit.

Umpiring has been keep uniform. We are still working on assignments to make it streamlined.

Final Schedule will be released on 1st April 2015.

Starts from Round of 16 for both Divisions.

Idea is to give teams one more chance in order to make a comeback.

There are winner and losers bracket. If you lose you get a second chance and might have to play back-to-back on the same weekend.

Bonus: We get more cricket and more excitement.

Double Elimination

Grounds The EC is trying to do its best to accommodate all ground requests. The EC has 13 grounds (a few permits are yet to be released).

Ground allocation is being done based on many factors such as Groups/Sharing and others .

Teams will receive confirmation from EC in separate email.

We have few teams who are sharing ground with us . We encourage collaboration.

Few Grounds…

Johnson Park (Pitch 1 and Pitch 2) , Piscataway area Cedarbrook park , Kawameeh Park , Warinanco Park , Union County Area Eisenhower 1 and Eisenhower II . Bridgewater Cricket Ground . South Brunswick: Rowland Park Pitch 1 , Pitch II . Tall Timber. Pension Road Ground. Kilmer Road Edison Area

Key Rule Changes for 2015 Qualifying for knock outs – Div 2

The top 8 teams from Div-2 will qualify for knock outs

Promotion to Div 1 The 4 Semi-finalists and the top remaining team from each pool

Determination of best all-rounder Points for each Runs=1, wickets=7, catches and run outs = 3 Bonus for major milestones – 50, 100, 5 wickets

Non 360 grounds Teams must reach out to EC and other teams to play on 360 ground. Pay the required fees for the permit Joint responsibility for clean up

Mankading Rule changed to match MCC/ICC rules Cannot run out if already entered delivery stride.

No Permit by host team Host team forfeits the game

Stumping allowed off a ball that hits the batsman’s body This is the exception to a dead ball

Switch hit Both batsman and bowler can be penalized for holding up and time wasting

Double Elimination New format introduced on trial basis Will be reviewed next year to decide whether to continue or not

Minor changes – explanations, re-wording Rule – 8.7 – distribution of teams from Div-2 that qualified to play in Div-1 Rule 38 – wicket keeper movement Rule 42.2 – No ball rule about the feet positions.

Key Rule Changes for 2015

Thank You

Let’s have a fun cricket season !!!