24 February 2023

D. PLAYING HOURS

 WHAT'S THIS ABOUT 

  • A grab bag of issues related to Playing Hours. 

Some of these issues are not going to proceed.

  • Starting times on Saturdays
  • Tea break length
  • Sunday playing hours
  • Saturday Finals  hours

 SUMMARY OF CHANGES

  • On Saturdays, the old 12.30pm start all season will probably be raised again for the 3rd time in 3 years. 
  • Also the new idea of introducing a 20 minute tea break has been suggested. 
  • For Sundays, a campaign to regularise the over rate to 4 minutes per over for all competitions would prompt reform in Sunday 50 Over hours and maybe Over 40 hours too. 
  • Are 90 over playing days for Saturday finals appropriate? Why not 75 over playing days?

DISCUSSION

12.30pm start Saturdays All Season 
Well, it's early July and no one has raised the 12.30pm start all season idea... yet. That 'dog' is asleep. It can sleep on.
  • The transfer time between the end of morning junior cricket and the start of afternoon senior cricket is the same.
  • Saturday lunch time traffic is as bad as ever.
  • The daylight hours (see previous Playing Regs Review https://tinyurl.com/2kz6y3an ) do not support the need for early starts between October and March.
Nothing has changed since last time this was considered.


The 20 minute tea break in Saturday Two Day cricket is a fine idea in theory but the idea is not very practical.
  • Assuming a 1pm start and a 6pm finish and 75 minimum overs for the day's play involves 275 minutes / 75 overs = 3.67 minutes per over.
  • This compares to 
    • 195/50 = 3.9 minutes per over in Sunday 50 cricket, 
    • 165/40 = 4.13 minutes per over in Over 40's Cricket 
    • 80/20 = 4 minutes per over in Super 20
    • 275/70 = 3.92 minutes per over in Saturday 35 Over matches
  • Time is already very tight in two day cricket.
The options to allow a longer break are:
  • to extend playing time 
    • (CCC extended daily playing hours by 40 minutes and increased the daily minimum to 80 overs and included a 20 minute tea break - more cricket but starting time wouldn't suit everyone.)
  • to cut minimum overs
    • (in Warehouse cricket it's minimum 70 minimum overs in 270 minutes with a 20 minute tea break - less cricket but a few more minutes break.)
So we can fiddle with it but the cricket playing 'value' is in playing cricket not standing around waiting. I guess this boils down to what the actual clubs and teams want to do. 

Sunday 50 Playing Hours
  • It's a chronic problem with the 50 over competition that many teams have a great deal of trouble hitting their 50 overs by Innings Finish Time. 
  • It leads to a stark assymetric problem for teams that bowl first. 
  • First innings bowling sides are continually pushing or being pushed to 'hurry up' to get their overs in before the Innings Finish Time. 
  • The second innings by contrast has little to no time pressure on the bowling side because even if the innings lasts 50 overs there's almost no 'hurry up' required.
  • That's not real fair on both sides.
  • There will be an effect caused by changing the Innings Finish Time rules (aka the cut-off time) (See Item F PRR 2023 https://tinyurl.com/y2za7h9s)
Other changes to consider would be 
  • lengthening the playing time a little - right now the paying hours are 10am to 1.15pm and 1.45pm to 5pm. That's 195 minutes for each innings. If it were lengthened to 10am to 1.20pm and 1.50pm to 5.10pm that would be 200 minutes for each innings at exactly 4 minutes per over.
  • starting a bit earlier - a 9.30am start would offer the chance to make the playing hours 9.30am to 12.50pm and maybe 1.20pm to 4.40pm. Also the start time would be the same as for Over 40's and Super 20 cricket.
  • reducing the over count - 45 overs per side could be neatly fitted into two 3 hour innings at exactly 4 minutes per over. (e.g. 10am to 1pm, 1.30pm to 4.30pm

Saturday Finals - For a few decades now the Saturday finals in March have been played over two long days (Saturday and Sunday) from 10am to 5pm.

Which is great. But a random suggestion was regsitered this year that this is way too long and over the top for B or C grade... can't we cut it shorter?

This idea has not received wide support. I think it's another sleeping 'dog'..... 


PROPOSED REGULATIONS

OLD REGULATIONS What does this mean?/ Why is this no good? PROPOSED NEW WORDING
20 HOURS OF PLAY
For Sunday 50 Over Matches		 -
20.1 Morning Session 10.00am to 1.15pm Earlier start, sames as Over 40's & Super 20 20.1 Morning Session 9.30am to 12.50pm
20.2 Interval 1.15pm to 1.45pm Now 200 minutes for 50 overs 20.2 Interval 12.50pm to 1.20pm
20.3 Afternoon Session 1.45pm to 5.00pm - 20.3 Afternoon Session 1.20pm to 4.40pm

 

ABM 27-Mar-2023

(Update 3-Jul-2023)

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