Chance to Compete Boys Under 15s
The rules
A reminder of the standard cricket laws apply for this competition, with batters being out if they are out. A reminder that this is not a pairs based cricket competition.
A summary of rules would be as follows:
- Eight players in a team.
- Eight overs a side, six balls an over.
- Batters score 1 for hitting any of the side walls, ceiling or wall behind the wicket keeper – but can be caught off any of these walls.
- Batter score 4 for hitting the wall behind the bowler along the floor or 4 for hitting the wall behind the bowler without the ball touching the ground or any other wall first.
- Batters can be out – bowled, caught, hit wicket, run out or stumped.
- Bowlers may bowl a maximum of two overs each.
- Wides and no balls will add 2 runs to the batting teams score, but extra balls will only be bowled in the eighth over of the innings.
- Batters who score 15 runs or more will have to retire and may return at the end of the innings should there be any balls remaining.
- If there is one batter left at the end of the innings, with balls remaining, that batter may continue batting with another batter running at the other end. NB – In this instance either batter can be run out.
Finals Day - The 40
Note that for the Finals Days we play the matches under “The 40” match play format in order to mirror some of the profile of the ECB's 100 Ball format.
The rules of the 40 are similar to the standard eight a side game, apart from it is quicker and shorter – by eight balls.
- Still eight a side, but eight five ball overs.
- Bowlers can bowl two overs in a row, up to a maximum of two overs a bowler.
- Batters change end every ten balls, instead of at the end of every over.
