Cricket Southern Bayside Junior Indoor Competition

Cricket Southern Bayside

Junior Indoor Competition

The Opportunity
  Despite successful recruitment campaigns and programs, converting entry level
participants into players and retaining them remains a constant challenge for cricket
     ➢ Large number of competing sport and recreational activities

     ➢ Misalignment between recruitment period and activation
       opportunities

     ➢ Entry level players not club ready

     ➢ Under utilised relationship between outdoor cricket and Indoor
       centres

     ➢ Increasing multicultural population

The Benefits
➢ Additional Recruitment Period for clubs
  ➢ Ability to capitalise on international and BBL coverage
  ➢ Register new players, somewhere to go, not turned away until
     the following Sept/Oct.
  ➢ Keep your members during the non-outdoor season, sign
     them up before they end the summer!
  ➢ Sign them up for outdoor when indoor finishes, sign them up
     for indoor before outdoor finishes

➢ High Player Participation
  ➢ Everyone bats, bowls & fields

➢ Skill Acquisition
  ➢ Junior Format pitch lengths
  ➢ Build on skills from outdoor season
  ➢ Step ahead in preparation

The Benefits
➢ No equipment required
  ➢ Centre supplies all equipment (bring your own
     bat/gloves/protectors)

➢ Low volunteer involvement required
  ➢ All fixturing, scoring and umpiring done by centre
  ➢ No washouts
  ➢ Great for parents & families to watch
  ➢ Games over in 1 hour

➢ Improved communication for clubs with players and parents
  ➢ Increased ability to communicate during off season
  ➢ Increased exposure for club branding & identification
  ➢ Increased exposure for club sponsors

➢ Similar programs in the West of Melbourne has shown that
  clubs that participated grew their base the following season

The Benefits
➢ State and National Representation (3 CSB players are now World Champions)

➢ And this one is well on his
  way to a great cricket career

Pathways
➢ Cricket Southern Bayside fields a Men’s side in Cricket Australia’s
  National Indoor Cricket League (NICL)

➢ Win your Region/State and off to National finals

➢ Launching a Female NICL side in season 2019

➢ Adding a Male Super League (State competition) team in season
  2019
   ➢ Pathway from junior indoor competition to Super League then NICL

Consider this..
                                                                          “Indoor can
➢ High Profile Indoor Cricketers                                          make you an
                                                                          even better
  ➢ Steve and Mark Waugh, Steve Smith, Michael Clarke (NSW & Aust)        outdoor
  ➢ Justin Langer, Bruce Reid (WA & Aust)                                 player, you're
                                                                          fielding close
  ➢ Aaron Finch (Vic, Aust, Renegades)                                    to the
                                                                          batsman and
  ➢ Glenn Maxwell (Vic, Australia, Stars)                                 your reflexes
                                                                          have to be
  ➢ McKenzie Harvey (Renegades)                                           good as well
                                                                          as your hand-
  ➢ Ryan Harris (Qld, Aust)                                               eye
                                                                          coordination
  ➢ Cathryn Fitzpatrick (Vic, Aust Test, ODI & T20 player)                and you have
  ➢ Amanda-Jade Wellington (Strikers, Aust Test, ODI & T20 player)        no margin for
                                                                          error with run-
  ➢ Sarah Coyte (NSW, Strikers, Aust Test, ODI & T20 player)              outs too,"
                                                                          Mark Waugh
  ➢ Elysse Villani (Vic, Stars, Scorchers, Aust Test, ODI player & T20)   said. "Whilst
                                                                          the tactics are
  ➢ Elly Donald (Vic, Stars)                                              different, your
                                                                          basic skills can
  ➢ Chloe Rafferty (Vic, Stars)                                           be used across
                                                                          both indoor
                                                                          and outdoor
                                                                          cricket."

Competition Structure
➢ Junior Male and Female
  ➢ Terms 2 & 3 with School holiday break
  ➢ 6 teams per age group*
  ➢ First place auto qualify for GF
  ➢ Semi Final 2 v 3, winner plays 1st placed same evening
  ➢ “Home & Away” – 10 games then 1 week finals
    ➢ w/c 6th May, break for school holidays, remaining 3 weeks home & away
        then finals w/c 5th August
  ➢ Location - Oakleigh Indoor Sports

   ➢ CSB endorsed program with Oakleigh Indoor Sports
   ➢   * TBC based on expression of interest

Competition Structure
➢ Likely structure
   ➢ Male (10-12-14-16) – Monday & Tuesday
   ➢ Female (14-17) - Wednesday

➢ 4 courts running simultaneously

Competition Structure
➢ Major rules
  ➢ Pitch length = Junior formats (reinforce skills)
  ➢ 6 per side
  ➢ 1 hour match
  ➢ 6 balls per over (exc wides/no balls)
  ➢ Everyone bowls 2 overs
  ➢ Bat in pairs for 4 overs each
  ➢ 1 keeper, 2 in front half, 1 bowler and 2 in back half
  ➢ Caught off net, run outs, Stumpings, bowled
  ➢ Whatever you run + 1 off front half net, 4 off back net if
     bounces first and 6 if on the full
  ➢ 5 bonus runs per wicket
  ➢ Scores/Ladders on line
  ➢ (Don’t worry we will run a competition meeting to
     explain all this before the first game is played!)

Competition Structure

➢ $750 per team payable up front and by 15th April
➢ Receive up to a maximum $125* rebate from CSB if payment
  received by 30th March 2019
➢ Cost includes, court, balls, scoring, umpires all provided
➢ Just register your team and players, provide a team manager for
  each game. Provide the players names to the umpire on the night,
  ensure players are registered – that’s it, nothing more to do!
➢ Wear your club shirt, show off your existing or new sponsors
➢ Register your team asap at
  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/P8BKP5Q

• *Rebate amount dependent upon number of teams registered by the cut-off date
• Cost becomes approx. $10 per player per match