Cricket Leinster registrations for 2023 are now open. See their post: REGISTRATION FOR THE 2023 SEASON – NOW OPEN!
There is a 10% discount to be had if you register before 01 Jan 2023.
Please note: if you register early, the club can assess the number of people in the club and therefore determine the number of teams we can put forward in 2023 more accurately.
We held the end of season 2022 committee meeting on 21 Sept 2022 at Taylor’s Three Rock.
I list below the decisions taken in the meeting.
We will have a separate AGM and a separate awards night. We will try and hold the awards night sometime between 15 and 30 Nov. The actual date is to be finalized. We will announce the actual date, location and cost in the next 4 weeks.
We will look to price the awards night like we did the last time – EUR 10.00 ticket for every person attending.
Awards to be presented will at least include:
There might be a couple of more award categories – but, we are to finalize it yet.
We completed a brief financial review. The annual financial report will be shared with all the club members at the AGM as usual.
The umpiring rebates scheme was approved by the committee. We have published scheme a short while ago.
The committee endorsed Vision 2025. The Vision statement is now with the entire club for review and comments. The club shall adopt the Vision in AGM 2022 subject to a favorable vote by the club.
The current selection committee will be disbanded and a new one will be formed next year. We will revise the selection criteria to suit the aims we set for 2023. All captains will be encouraged to pick players with 100% match fitness. The new selection committee will be made up of people who attend training on a regular basis and assess players.
We have described the situation and progress in the Ground Problems page. We will continue to aggressively push our case with the council.
Will be elected in the AGM as usual. We understand that there are individuals in the club who would like to be part of the committee and that is great. Nominations are invited for the following positions.
We previously spoke about a Vision 2025. We have created this vision statement to ensure that
The idea is to hold ourselves to a certain standard irrespective of anything else.
The Sandyford Cricket Club committee endorsed the Vision statement on 2025. But, we will not formally adopt Vision 2025 unless the majority of the club votes for it. Remember what I said back in 2020: “We will not have centralized power in this club. Everyone is a stakeholder. The club shall progress with everyone participating the progress.”
As the club president, on behalf of the club committee, I invite you all to please review the Vision 2025. Please send in your feedback to the committee. The plan is:
Since this Vision 2025 binds the current committee and every future committee [at least for the next 3 years], I ask that everyone please participates in this consultative forum.
Please find Vision 2025 on our home page: click here.
During the winter of 2021-22, Cricket Leinster launched a new scheme: meeting capacity challenge in umpiring. This scheme aims to
There is clear evidence that the lack of appointed umpires at matches has a material effect on the enjoyment of the game and on disciplinary matters. The scheme has a long lead in time. This ensures that the clubs have the chance to identify and recruit suitable umpires. To find more details of the scheme, please click here. Under the scheme, all qualified umpires can allocate the matches they stand in to a club.
The cricket club paid the course fees for 6 members from the club to qualify as umpires in 2022. Unfortunately most of the players who qualified as umpires in 2022 did not officiate a single match in 2022. Even if they do umpire a few games each in 2023, the current number of umpires in Sandyford CC will not be able to fulfil the 80 umpiring appointments we will need to provide in 2023. NOTE: the 80 umpiring appointments is assuming that we will have 4 teams in 2023.
If you are interested in qualifying as umpires, please register your interest. You can do so by sending an email to the club email ID [see the page footer for email link]. The club will provide you with incentives listed below.
In an ideal world, one should need no additional incentive. The love for the game and accruing up to 50 penalty points in a season should be incentive enough. But, as a club, we do appreciate that we should do our bit to encourage people into umpiring. As a club, we would wish to be in a position to eventually abolish these incentives in the long run.
If you would like to help the club out by umpiring next year, please send an email to the club email ID [see the page footer for email link] and register your interest.
10 October 2022
The club will send an email to the LCU&SA education secretary and ensure that you are assured a seat in the upcoming umpiring courses to be held in the winter.
You can register your interest at a later date also – but, there is a possibility that you might not get a place in the upcoming umpiring course.
The club expects that anyone who is a qualified umpire in Sandyford CC umpires at least 6 games in 2023. Failing that, we will not meet our obligation to Cricket Leinster and will be docked penalty points. For details, read the capacity challenge document here
The club will reimburse the umpiring course fee on successfully completing the umpiring course. Every umpire will then have the following expenditure:
[1] approximately EUR 70.00 one time cost in the first year to purchase the white kit.
[2] EUR 50.00 in LCU&SA membership fees each year.
LCU&SA pay expenses for each game that one umpires. As of 2022, the expenses paid are:
[1] EUR 50.00 for a 40+ over a side game.
[2] EUR 30.00 for a 20 over game.
[3] EUR 50.00 for 2x 20 over games on the same day.
This is applicable to all games where some play happens or where the umpires have to go to the ground to call the game off.
[1] The club will reimburse the course fee on successfully completing the umpiring course.
[2] The club will provide a one-off EUR 50.00 rebate, contingent upon umpiring a minimum of 6 games in the season in the first year of umpiring.
[2] The club will offer the following additional rebates: EUR 5.00 for each T20 game that you officiate, EUR 10.00 for each 40+ over game that you officiate. This is not contingent upon any minimum number of games.
[3] The upper limit on the rebate is the subs due from the member.
[4] The club reserves the right to review the rebate scheme in the AGM each year.
[5] The club reserves the right to review the rebate scheme before the season commences in 2023. If the clubs finances are not in good shape the rebate scheme might be revised. If Cricket Leinster decides not to enforce the new scheme, the rebate scheme will be put on hold.
Example 1: If a person umpires 8 games [4x T20, 4x 40+ overs] each season, we calculate the rebate as follows:
[year 1] EUR 50.00 one time + 4 x 5 + 4 x 10 = EUR 110.00
[year 2 onwards] 4 x 5 + 4 x 10 = EUR 60.00
Example 2: If a person umpires 4 games [2x T20, 2x 40+ overs] each season, we calculate the rebate as follows:
[year 1] EUR 00.00 one time + 2 x 5 + 2 x 10 = EUR 30.00
[year 2 onwards] 2 x 5 + 2 x 10 = EUR 30.00
Example 3: If a person umpires 30 games [10x T20, 20x 40+ overs] each season, we calculate the rebate as follows:
[year 1] EUR 50.00 one time + 10 x 5 + 20 x 10 = EUR 300.00; apply the subs cap and thus membership free.
[year 2 onwards] 10 x 5 + 20 x 10 = EUR 250.00; apply the subs cap and thus membership free.
We will calculate the rebate owed to the member and make an appropriate refund at the end of the season, no later than 31 Oct 2023.