At last night's Lincolnshire County Cricket League pre-season meeting in Market Rasen it was agreed clubs should mark umpires in all George Marshall Trophy and Bob Welton Cup ties, with effect from first round games in mid-May. This is in line with the introduction of marking of officials in all matches in divisions one, two, three and four for the first time, starting this Saturday (the premier division having had this for some time). The marking system will greatly assist umpires' officials and the ECB Officials' Association in targeting umpires for advancement.
A working party was set up to look into the possible introduction of an online results and player registration system through the Play Cricket website. This will involve representatives of Haxey and Cleethorpes, plus league officials. A meeting will be held in about a month's time to prepare a written report for consideration by clubs at the mid-July meeting. It is then anticipated a vote/rule change will follow on the suggestion at the AGM in March.
Copies of the new 2010 Lincs League Handbook and match balls were distributed at the end of what was a very short meeting. This was due, in part, to the Lincolnshire Cricket Board being unable to send a representative along to elaborate on the idea of a Cricket Board Academy team applying for membership of the Lincs League premier division. Hopefully the Board will be able to attend a future meeting. It they do decide to apply, this must be done by the end of July (the deadline for all clubs wishing to add new teams for 2011) and put their application to a vote at the AGM.
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