Competitions

Posted August 4th, 2011 by ged.

Each division is based on having ten teams, each team will play home and away. At the end of the season the top two teams in each division will be promoted. The bottom two in each division will be relegated. If a division has only nine teams then only one would be relegated but two promoted.

The Fred Holden (Handicap) Cup

The Fred Holden Trophy is contested by all the teams in the league, the competition is handicapped, this season the competition will return to a knock-out. A preliminary round will start the competition with around 16 teams being involved to ensure the first round will be contested by 32 teams, it will then continue down to a final in April

Divisional Handicap Competitions

A charge of £3 will be made for this competition

This is an individual competition. Players are drawn into groups depending on numbers of entries, with other players from their division. Each group plays off as a league, with each player playing every other player in their group once.

The top players in each group then go into a knock out stage down to the semi finals which will be played on a Sunday in February/March 2012.

The competition will be held week commencing 12th December, Monday for the premiere division, Tuesday for divisions 1 and 2, Wednesday for division 3.

All start at 7.15pm prompt; competitions will not be run if there are less that eight entrants.

Summer League

This is run usually from June to September, Monday Evening 7pm until 10pm. The competition is open to all league players, players from other leagues, players who don’t play in leagues, old players, new players, even people who have never picked up a bat in their life, absolutely anyone can take part, it’s handicapped to give everybody an equal chance, cost is £3 per night.

Merit Competitions

This will be displayed along with the league tables and results on the notice board, local papers and the web site. Trophies will be awarded for those finishing in first and second place.

Annual Closed Competitions

These will be contested on Sunday 11th March 2012 The competitions include Singles, Doubles, Handicapped Singles, Handicapped Doubles.

Please note:- No competitions will be run if the entry in all singles competitions is less than eight players, and in all doubles competitions is less than sixteen players (8 teams).