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1st XI games only, as soon as match has finished and by 8.30pm at the latest the home team must telephone the results to Jo Greenhill on 020 8502 2064. Failure to do so will result in a £2 fine and 1 point deducted. (This is same as previous seasons for the Press Association).

The Press Association has requested that the following format is used and will not accept a different format. It will assist Jo Greenhill if clubs will follow this format when telephoning in. She will then summarise and forward the details to the Press association by fax.
Example of formats: Chelmsford (18) 236-4 Brentwood (2) 137
Chelmsford won by 99 runs.
Chelmford (11) 203-9 Brentwood (6) 152-7 Match Drawn

All HOME sides (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th XI's) must enter the results onto their club Play-Cricket site by Sunday Night following the match, then click the box to show this has been done. This will enable the tables to be up to date.

Please ensure that you enter all information for the result of the match and DO NOT enter the points for winning, draw, tie or abandoned matches.
ONLY enter the bonus point if you did not win.

 

All AWAY sides (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th XI's) should check that the information entered by the Home side is correct and click the box to show this has been done.

 

It is most important that the away side leaves after the match with the same Scorecards as the Home side. Result, Score Total and Points, etc. If the results do not tally the same then the Home side Scorecards will be taken as the correct information
 

All HOME sides 1st XI Premier Division must enter the Scorecards onto their club Play-Cricket site by the Monday night. All other should try and do the same but have until Thursday after the match. Remember to click the box to show this has been done.

Enter as much information as you wish onto the scorecard pages. this will then enable the statistics of all players to show up on the League Play-Cricket Site.
 

All AWAY sides (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th XI's) should check that the information entered by the Home side is correct and click the box to show this has been done.

Again, it is most important that the away side leaves after the match with the same Scorecards as the Home side. Result, Score Total and Points, etc. If any of the information is incorrect i.e. names etc., then these can be altered by the away side. If the results do not tally the same then the Home side Scorecards will be taken as the correct information.

The League Play-Cricket Administrators will keep a check on all the information entered and adjust if and when necessary.

LEAGUE CUP DRAW/FIXTURES 2010 ON PLAY-CRICKET
Now on the one site.

PLAY-CRICKET

Play-Cricket.com will be adopted and become the Result Reporting system, please see how to sign up below - Club Administrators see below for help - there have been a few small changes - if you spot any errors in help files please contact me here

To receive all the benefits the site has to offer (some Club information is hidden from non-members) we encourage you as an individual to join Play-Cricket.com, a completely free site. All Essex League Clubs have a free Play-Cricket.com website www.yourclubname.playcricket.com e.g. http://www.basildonandpitsea.play-cricket.com. The Essex League site is at www.essexcl.play-cricket.com 

Here is how to sign up!

1. Register with Play-Cricket by either clicking on the ‘register’ button on the Play-Cricket home page or on your club home page. This will create your Play-Cricket username and password, which you will receive by email.

2. Following your registration, after you have logged on using your Play-Cricket username and password click on ‘my profile’ and click on the ‘memberships’ area.

3. In ‘memberships’ click on ‘apply for new membership’ and search for your club.

4. In the list returned click on ‘apply for membership’ next to your club name.

5. Complete the necessary details in the form, agree to the terms and conditions and click ‘apply for membership’.

Your application will now be reviewed by your club web site administrator and hopefully accepted by your Club administrator soon!

Player Registration

REGISTERING PLAYERS - (Important notes at end)

1. Log in to your Play Cricket site and go to 'admin' and then member database.

2. Select League Registered players from drop down menu at the top and press 'search'. You will then be given the choice of 'adding new user with this role'. Add new user. All UK players should have United Kingdom as their country of birth. Overseas players you need to add their country of birth and their date of entry to the UK or you will be unable to register them.

3. Step 2 sends an application to the League for approval.

NOTES

1. Please do not apply for a player who has already been registered before for another Club in that season. In such cases email cliff.greenhill@btinternet.com and ask for a transfer. This applies to ALL players, including County staff.

2. ZERO TOLERANCE - you will be unable to select a player to play for your side who is not registered. Zero tolerance will eventually apply - all players MUST be registered with the League BEFORE they play a match or the match will be forfeited against you.

Play-Cricket.com Club Administrators.

NOTICE - UNSURE is not acceptable name for a player!

Picking teams, entering results and score cards.

Summary Results to be submitted no later than Noon on a Sunday (your league position will not be updated until they are!), score cards by Wednesday evening.

Entering results on the Play-Cricket network is a three step process. The steps are:

1.         Selecting the team (optional and has to be completed before the day of the match)
Go to: admin/fixtures/ pick team

2.         Entering summary level result
Go to: admin/results/ enter (or edit)

3.         Entering scorecard
Go to: admin/results/ enter (or edit)

Please find full details for each part of the process below:

1. Selecting the Team

Go to your club home page on Play-Cricket, log on and click on the 'admin' button

In 'admin' click on 'fixtures'

Find the fixture you wish to pick team and then click on the yellow icon next to fixture.

On the left you will have 11 player slots and a 12th man slot

On the right there is a list of your players who are registered with the league.

If you need to change a selection use the 'clear' button or if not all your players are confirmed click on 'Player to be Confirmed' to fill the spaces

Having selected your team you have three options. These are to publish the team on the web site, email players and print the team sheet

If you publish the team it will be visible to online members of your club when they view the fixture

If you email the players all your players who have email addresses entered will details of the match and be able to confirm their selection

If you print you will have the details of the match and the team with telephone numbers and email addresses

To complete the process click on 'save team'

NB Picking a team has to done before the day of the match and is optional

2. Entering Summary Level Result

Go to your club home page on Play-Cricket, log on and click on the 'admin' button

In 'admin' click on  then 'results'

Next to the match you wish to enter the result for click on 'enter' (if the opposition have already entered the result it will say 'edit)

Move down the form entering all the match details including the result of the match, who won the toss, who batted first, the runs, wickets and overs for each team and whether the team that batted first declared

Enter the batting and bowling bonus points and any penalty points for each team. 

NB DO NOT ADD BONUS POINTS TO THE WINNING SIDE!

Click on 'save' to submit the result

You now have the option of entering the scorecard or completing it at a later stage (see below)

3. Entering Scorecard

There are four steps in entering a scorecard:

3.1. Confirm your team
This works in the same way as 'Selecting the Team' (see point 1)

3.2. Confirm opposition team
This works in the same way as 'Selecting the Team' (see point 1) only you are choosing names from the opposition database (you will not be able to see any of their player's details)

3.3. Enter your scorecard
For the batting team:
- Click on how they were out (or not out/ did not bat) from the list on the right
- Select the bowler and fielder involved in the dismissal if applicable from the fielding team list on the right
- Enter the score details
- Enter extras and the fall of wickets

For the bowling team:
- Select the bowlers used from the fielding team list on the right
- Enter the bowling details for each bowler (the number of wickets will be taken from the batting details)

Click on 'save scorecard' to proceed

3.4. Enter opposition scorecard
This works in the same way as 3.3

UNSURE is not acceptable for a player!

Please do not hesitate to contact either of us if you experience any problems with any of the processes above.

EMAIL CLIFF GREENHILL OR GEORGE SALMON

Make Administrator

Accepting Online Members and Creating New Web Site Administrators

To accept new online club members and create a new web site administrator please follow the following steps - NOTE : All members you wish to make administrators MUST first register with Play Cricket and apply to join your club by adding club in their profile and applying.

1. You need to log on and go to the administration area of your web site

2. On the Admin Homepage  you will see people who have applied to join (i.e. they have signed up with Play-Cricket).

3. To accept a member click on name and then the match button next to their name. This compares them to existing names in your database. If there is an existing name that is the exact same person click on ‘match’ and you will avoid duplication in your member database. If they do not already exist in your database click on ‘grant membership without matching’

4. Once a person is an online member of your club you can make them an administrator of your club web site. Edit their roles by clicking on 'black planet' sign next to their name.

Please note that if you grant an online member administration rights they will have full access to change all the information on your Play-Cricket system so they must be responsible members of your club

 
ADDITONAL INFORMATION

PLAY-CRICKET INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLUB ADMINISTRATORS
Results of all XI’s MUST be entered weekly by all Clubs in the stated times as above

1.                  Sign-on with username and password

After you have, click on Admin beneath your log in this will take you to the Admin page for your club.

2.                  Click on the Membership of your site and add all club members to the site, with all the information that is required.

3.                  You should also add them as playing members of the League and as you do so, the application appears on the League Play-Cricket Site, for approval.

4.                  Also you can add them to a squad player or more than one etc. This will speed up the scorecards process.

5.                  The HOME side MUST enter the Result (only the result) onto their own Play-Cricket site by Sunday midday following the match.
The HOME side MUST also enter the Scorecard details by 6.00pm on the following Wednesday and of course the Away side should check all is correct.

6.                  The AWAY side checks the entries of the HOME side and when correct ticks the space provided, but it does allow him to change anything that might be incorrect. When completed & checked it can then be locked by the League Results Administrators. The League Tables will be updated automatically.
This will allow for all Results & Tables to be updated and corrected by Midday following the Matches. The Averages/Statistics will be updated and shown by the following Wednesday evening.

7.                  ONLY enter bonus point as all other points i.e. win, draw, cancelled, abandoned etc as laid down by the playing conditions will automatically get entered.

8.                  Club Administrators: It is possible to contact players via there own club play-cricket website.

9.                  ECB Administrator of  Play-Cricket: David Lawrence 020 7432 1172

10.              Category 1: England Qualified Amateur.

Category 2: England Qualified Professional (on County Staff)

Category 3. Overseas Player.

11.              There is no need to put the Club initials after a players name as this is sorted by play-cricket.

12.              DO NOT enter points for win, draw, tie, cancelled or abandoned.

ONLY enter Bonus points over and above the draw, tie, or abandoned etc., games.

13.              Though it states HOME team to enter the results and the AWAY team to check. It is OK to have either team enter the results, but the other club should check and tick as required.

14.              The BONUS POINTS gained are the only ones to be entered in the bonus box.
I should draw your attention to the fact that club players averages will not show up in the statistics on the League Play-Cricket site, unless your club enters the scorecard details on there club Play-Cricket site. Therefore clubs can enter their own scorecard details even if your opponents of that day have not done so. It is possible to enter all your own club details, with just blank spaces or unsure etc in the names of the opposition players. You are able to enter their unsure players scores in the relevant positions also. This should not occur now as all club and all XI’s are required to enter details in a stipulated time.

REMINDER: Could I just give a reminder. 

DO NOT Enter the Points for Winning whether Batting First or Second.
ONLY Enter the Bonus Points gained for Batting and Bowling. 

THESE POINTS ARE AUTOMATICALY ADDED BY THE SYSTEM.

1.         All XI’s:- Winning Batting First
2.         All XI’s:- Winning Batting Second
3.         All XI’s:- Draw
4.         All XI’s:- Abandoned/Cancelled
5.         All XI’s:- Tie

George Salmon
Play-Cricket League Site Administrator
essexcricket@btopenworld.com 

This was information sent by David Lawrence sent to one of our clubs, which I am sure will help you.

To make the best use of the availability function take the following steps. 

1. Encourage as many of your players to register with Play-Cricket and join your club as an online member or enter their names onto your member database including an email address 

2. Once you have as many names inc. email addresses as possible on your site, add these people into the various squads that they play in 

3. Once in a squad (with associated fixtures) these players' availability can be completed: 

a) by themselves (if they have registered with Play-Cricket and become a member of your site) through the availability section of 'my details' 

b) by the site administrators by clicking on their name in the member database and completing the availability section 

4. Having captured the availability for each member of the club you then go to select the team in the fixtures area. Here the squad will be displayed and ticks and crosses shown depending on their availability. You also have the choice of selecting players from other squads - however if that team has already been selected for a particular day those players will show as unavailable even though they may have signed up to being viable initially 

5. Having selected your side you can email them to which they can then respond confirming they can play or not. 

I hope this helps.
Regards,
David Lawrence
Play-Cricket.com
Tel: 020 7432 1172