Registration of Non
Resident Players
Non Resident Player Registration 2006
No Member club may play more than ONE player in any Championship match who is a non-Resident player
Please read the Constitution of the Trailfinders Middlesex Championship especially paragraph 3. Members 3.0 to 3.9
Advanced registration of Non-resident Players will be a requirement for
the 2006 season. It is important to remember that this will apply to ALL
Players both Resident and Non-Resident and also whether they play in the First
or Second Eleven. It is thus advisable that any Player likely to play in either
Eleven is registered as soon as possible. Each registered Player will be given
a unique registration number.
At the end of every Championship match, it will be the
responsibility of each Eleven to mail a card with the names and registration
numbers of the Players of BOTH Elevens to the Registration Secretary, Naresh
Patel. This card must be with Naresh by the Friday following the match. Teams
will be fined for failing to mail cards in time. Naresh will check the names
and registration numbers of the Players against the master registration
database. Teams that play an unregistered Player will be fined.
Registration
form for non resident player can be downloaded from this site, which is in Word format and
have been virus checked.
Non-Resident Registration form
A: Before being eligible to participate in a Championship First
or Second Eleven match in Divisions One, Two, Three or Four in the 2005 season,
Players of all ages (both adults and colts) must be registered by the
Championship Registration Secretary, Naresh Patel.
Q: How does a Player set about registering his name?
A: A Player can obtain the relevant registration form from the
appointed officer of his Club’s Management Committee. Alternatively, the
relevant registration form can be printed off the Championship website. There
are separate registration forms for Resident Players and for Non-Resident
Players (see Rule 3.6). After signing and dating the form, the Player must pass
the completed form to his Club’s Cricket Secretary for checking and, if
satisfied as to its correctness, counter-signing and sending to the
Championship Registration Secretary.
Q: Rule 3.5 states that a Player who has played at first-class
level will be ineligible to play in a Championship match within the next twelve
months, but what is meant by first-class level?
A: The International Cricket Council Rules and Regulations
define a match of three or more days’ duration between two sides of eleven
players played on natural turf pitches on international standard grounds and
substantially conforming to standard playing conditions as a first-class
fixture. A comprehensive list of the competitions that are regarded as
first-class, e.g. Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, may be found on the ICC pages of the
Cricinfo website.
Q: The registration form for Resident Players requires the
Resident Player who was born outside the British Isles to state the date of
most recent entry into the British Isles, but is that information really
appropriate in the case of a Resident Player who may have been resident in the
British Isles for many years?
A: No, not necessarily! In that situation, the Resident Player
born outside the British Isles may simply write ‘Permanently resident in the
Q: When must the registration of Players be done?
A: Member Clubs are asked to send completed registration forms
to the Registration Secretary by not later than end-March 2005 in order
that the registration process can be completed before the start of the 2005
season. The names of registered Non-Resident Players will be posted on the
Championship website in the same way as has been done during the last three
years.
Q: Will the information supplied by each Player be made
available to a third party, for example, for marketing purposes?
A: No! The Championship website will list for each Member Club
the names of all of that Club’s registered Non-Resident Players (and, at a date
yet to be decided, registered Resident Players, including Colts) and the unique
registration number of each of those Players. However, in the event that a
Player is suspended by the Championship Disciplinary Sub-Committee from playing
in a Championship match for four or more weeks, then that Player’s full name
and home address and Club will be reported to the Middlesex Cricket Board. In
the case of a more extensive ban, the Board may decide to inform other cricket
leagues in Middlesex and neighbouring County Cricket Boards – a ban from
playing cricket in the Championship is a nation-wide ban from playing.
Q: What is the procedure for new Players who join the Club after
end-March 2005?
A: The relevant registration form must be completed and signed
and sent to the Championship Registration Secretary. On receipt, the
Championship Registration Secretary will check the details and, if satisfied,
will register the Player’s name, allocate a unique registration number, and
advise the Club.
Q: What is the responsibility of the Captains?
A: Before the toss,
Captains should exchange team sheets (where Panel Umpires are appointed, pass
the team sheets to the Umpires). After
the match, the Captains of both sides must complete and return a card listing
the names and Player registration numbers of both sides so that the Championship
Registration Secretary receives the card by the Friday following the date of
the match. The Registration Secretary will then check the players’ names and
registration numbers against the master registration database.
Q: If a selected Player cries off at the last minute or fails to
turn up, will it be permissible to play an unregistered Player?
A: No! If no other registered Player is available to take the
place of the missing registered Player, the side must play ‘one short’. Hence,
it is advisable for a Club to register all likely Players, including Senior
Colts. If a side is discovered playing a Player under a false identity, then
that side’s Club faces the prospect of expulsion from the Championship. After
all, a key reason for introducing a registration system for all Players is that
in past seasons a few Clubs have played unregistered and/or ineligible
Non-Resident Players.
Q: Will it be necessary to re-register a Player immediately his
personal details (e.g. home address, phone number) change?
A: No, not immediately if the change occurs during the season!
However, a fresh registration form must be completed the following year before
the start of the new season.
Q: Will it be necessary to re-register a Resident Player before
the start of the new season?
A: No, not if his personal details are
unchanged from the previous season.
Q: Will it be necessary to re-register a Non-Resident Player
before the start of the new season?
A: Yes, either as a Non-Resident
Player, or as a newly-qualified Resident Player.
Q: Will a Club be fined if the team sheet card is returned late,
or if a Player takes part in a match before having been formally registered?
A: Yes! Penalty points will be deducted from the individual
Eleven (not both the Club’s sides). The scale is set out in Rule 3, Fixed
Administration Penalties, of the Championship Disciplinary Rules.