STATUS
Getting close.
A request to consider this has been received.
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SUMMARY
Teams to lose competition points for serious and/or repeated poor behaviour as reported by an Umpire through Spirit of Cricket points.PROPOSAL
27 SPIRIT OF CRICKET POINTS PENALTY27.1 The match umpire will award Spirit of Cricket points on a 10 point scale to each team at the conclusion of each match based on the Spirit of Cricket in the Preamble to the Laws of Cricket.
27.1.1 10 points for best Spirit of Cricket.
27.1.2 1 point for worst Spirit of Cricket.
27.2 Umpires will send Spirit of Cricket points to spiritofcricket@qsdca.com.au at the conclusion of the game.
27.3 A member of the Management Committee will be appointed to the task of recording Spirit of Cricket points throughout the season.
27.4 Any team who is awarded 4 spirit of cricket points or less for any match will receive a warning status.
27.5 At the first repetition of a team with a warning status being awarded 4 spirit of cricket points or less, the team will attract a penalty of 1 competition point and sustained warning status.
27.6 Any further instance of a team with a sustained warning status being awarded 4 spirit of cricket points or less will attract a penalty of 2 competition points and continued sustained warning status.
27.7 A team on warning status must receive three consecutive awards of 7 spirit of cricket points or more to clear any warning status.
27.8 Team warning status will be cleared at the end of each season.
27.9 At all stages of this process teams may make appeal by making a written submission to the QSDCA Secretary (secretary@qsdca.com.au)
BACKGROUND
Each umpire is instructed to rate teams out of 10 points on spirit of cricket for each match. At present these are averaged over the season to determine a trophy at season's end called the Spirit of Cricket Award.The new 2017 edition Laws of cricket includes a rewritten Preamble - Spirit of Cricket which is more succinct and less prescriptive. In my opinion this means it can be interpreted to include many broader things.
Click here to see the new 2017 edition Spirit of Cricket https://tinyurl.com/lmxu6xg
Click here to see the 2013 edition Spirit of Cricket https://tinyurl.com/mvl7266
DISCUSSION
The idea was raised at a recent Management Committee meeting to introduce a simple scheme for discouraging poor behaviour by teams.Such poor behaviour is characterised by gamesmanship, frequent and insistent appealing, pressuring umpires, sledging, showing dissent which doesn't warrant reporting by Breach of Code of Conduct reports.
Problems?
The biggest problem with this is the arbitrary and subjective way in which this may be approached. Simply this means that each umpire or team may have different attitudes or standards that they apply.
For any similar situation, different umpires may judge teams and players with different results. Teams may feel they will be required to behave in different ways for each different umpire. And they will complain when one umpire tries to report something that the umpire last week said was ok.
Umpires might be forced to endure teams that try to curry favour by being 'nice' also. That prospect is stomach-churning to me!!
Is there some potential for corruption of umpires by teams to manipulate Spirit of Cricket Points Awards?
Perhaps this is no different to any other kind of behavior management issue so maybe it doesn't matter.
Advantages
The best aspect of this is it offers a process for effective behaviour management that is between "having words with the players' (which is often next meaningless) and reporting an incident to the conducts commissioner (which might be an over reaction).
Where to from here
There really isn't an existing regulation that could be modified. A new playing regulation would have to be written, added and adopted through the AGM for this to work.
Some guidance on what sort of behaviour is and is not covered by this process should be considered.
In addition to the above things to add to the list might be drinking, pitch damage, arguing, fighting, or bad language, clothing, any other aspects of cricket etiquette.
In the context of the new Law 42 (2017 Code) (Player's Conduct) this initiative may cause some confusion and maybe even some conflict.
This might be viewed as harsh but it might give some teams pause for thought (which is what it's meant to do.)
What if we added a "carrot" clause also? Such as three 9 awards in a row or a 10 scores an extra competition point?
ABM 27-4-2017
(Revised 30-Jun-2017)
(little update 28-Jul-2017)
(Revised 30-Jun-2017)
(little update 28-Jul-2017)
ps. Thanks to Jim Noble for his input on this issue.
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Jim Noble messaged this on 7-Jun-17 (I have edited this a bit for clarity and to avoid some potential accusation.)
ReplyDelete"I feel we should use the spirit of cricket to make sure the teams play the game in the manner expected.
Maybe we should penalise them points.
My suggestion would be if a team is seen to be doing the wrong thing after 2 rounds they should be advised that their performances will be monitored. If no improvement noted they should be advised the team will be deducted 1 point for each round they have not come up to the level expected. If we are in round 6 and the team has received 4 awards under the level expected maybe 5 points per round or maybe the average for all teams in the competition.
So if the average is 6 and they have scored 4 in the rounds in question the deduction shall be 8 points.
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(in a recent incident had the team been) penalised, maybe we could have avoided a problem. I'm certain we will again experience it."
The argument for establishing this scheme is made above.
DeleteTo repeat it, this is an alternate means of persuading players and teams to behave respectfully that has some incentive, some effectiveness.
The level and mechanism of the penalties imposed is a subject for debate but only once the scheme itself is accepted.
We need a form of words for a new playing regulation...
27.7 A team on warning status must receive three consecutive awards of 7 spirit of cricket points to clear any warning status.
ReplyDeleteshould read
27.7 A team on warning status must receive three consecutive awards of 7 spirit of cricket points or more to clear any warning status.
Bruce Lawson suggested by email...
ReplyDelete27.1.1 ….. after “points on a 10 point scale” add in “with 1 point being the worst behaviour and 10 points being the best behaviour” or something similar.