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Steve Hall23 Jul 2024 - 10:10
Girls U11 Challenge Rules:
- 8 Players in a team. Note: both teams can play with 10 players by prior arrangement between managers. The number of players shall be confirmed at the toss.
- Each team starts with 200 runs when batting.
- Each inning will last for 16 overs if an 8-player match or 20 if a 10-player match.
- Players bat for a total of 4 overs in pairs
- 5 runs deducted for each lost wicket – Batter should change ends on the fall of a wicket, (the Batter out does not face the next ball).
- Wides and No Balls count as a penalty of two runs, in addition to any runs scored. No extra ball will be bowled except in the last over when Wides and No Balls count as a penalty of one run.
- Bowlers are limited to a max of 3 overs.
- Even if wearing a helmet, no player can field within 11 yards of the middle stump, except behind the wicket on the offside, until the striker has played the ball.
- Managers may umpire, and some coaching is allowed.
- A 4¾oz junior incredi-ball shall be used.
- The boundary should be no less than 35 yards from the middle of the pitch which shall be 17 yards long. Stumps should be the junior type (27” x 8”).
- The first time a batter is out, they remain batting. The second time they are dismissed they are out and may not return.
- When a batter reaches or passes 25 runs, they must retire, (regardless of whether they have been out 1 or 0 times) but may return, in the same order in which they retired.
- It is recommended, that all matches are live scored, so that the Results to be published on Play Cricket.
- All fixtures to be played by the 1st September.
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