This document details the new Match Type settings to support non-traditional Pairs/Recreational/ Junior cricket rules while scoring in NV Play Pro Cricket Scorer/Play-Cricket Scorer Pro. These rules should have been setup correctly in a competition-specific Match Type by the competition administrator prior to all matches, but scorers can check these via Tools -> Edit Database -> Match Types or, once a Fixture has been turned into a Match, via Scoring -> Match Details/Teams -> Match Type -> Edit. Scorers may make changes in the latter if they believe the Match Type settings are incorrect, for the current Match only. If the Match Type settings are later confirmed as incorrect, these should be updated by the competition(s) administrator in NV Play web-admin or the Play-Cricket Scoring Rules.
Grace Periods
The Grace Period refers to a custom number of balls during or wickets for which batters cannot be dismissed. If a batter is ‘dismissed’ during this period, they continue to bat and are only ‘out’ when dismissed after the Grace Period, unless there is a limit on the number of ‘dismissals’ allowed within the Grace Period (see below). If used in conjunction, no ‘real wicket’ occurs until after both Grace Periods and Grace Wickets criteria are completed. Batting teams and batters may also be penalised runs for each ‘dismissal’ (Runs Lost), and/or the bowling team and bowlers may be rewarded for each ‘dismissal’ (Runs Gained), during the Grace Periods. Any Lost Runs can be applied to Batter Runs and/or Bowler Runs to calculate player stats.
These rules are applied in the Match Type settings as follows:
- Grace Period: Balls – the number of balls for which the Grace Period lasts for each batter
- Grace Period: Wickets – the number of dismissals a batter is allowed during their Grace Period; g., if set to 2, this allows 2 ‘dismissals’ and then the third dismissal is ‘out’.
- Grace Period Runs: Gained – the number of runs the bowling team gains for each ‘dismissal’ made during the Grace Period
- Grace Period Runs:Lost – the number of runs the batting team loses for each ‘dismissal’ incurred during the Grace Period
- Apply Lost Runs To: Batter Runs – confirms that any Grace Period Runs: Lost are deducted from the Batter Runs scored. NB: Only active when Grace Period Runs: Lost above has a value
- Apply Lost Runs To: Bowler Runs – confirms that any Grace Period Runs: Lost are deducted from the Bowler Runs conceded. NB: Only active when Grace Period Runs: Lost above has a value
Balls per Over
Pairs/Recreational/Junior cricket can also have variations on the number of legal balls in an over, the maximum number of balls including No Balls and Wides in an over, and possibly a Penalty for exceeding this maximum (i.e., the final permitted ball of an over is a No Ball or a Wide, meaning another ball should be bowled in the over, but instead a Penalty is incurred by the bowling team).
These rules are applied in the Match Type settings as follows:
- Balls per Over: – the number of legal balls per over throughout the innings
- Balls per Over: Max – the maximum number of legal balls plus No Balls and Wides per over
- Balls per Over: ∞ Last – this should be ticked if the Balls per Over: Max does not apply to the Last Over of the innings, so that it can have an unlimited number of balls. NB: Only active when Balls per Over: Max has a value
- Balls per Over: Max Balls Penalty – the number of additional runs that are added to the No Ball/Wide value if it can’t be re-bowled because the Balls per Over: Max has been reached. NB: Only active when Balls per Over: Max has a value
No Balls and Wides
Similarly, Recreational/Junior competitions may have their own rules regarding whether No Balls and/or Wides count as a Ball Faced for the batter or not, whether they are re-bowled in the Last Over and/or all other Overs, and if they are re-bowled in the Last Over if this is so for the entire Over or just on its Last Ball.
These rules are applied in the Match Type settings as follows:
- No Ball Value: - the number of runs a No Ball penalises the bowling team in all but the Last Over of an innings
- No Ball Value: Rebwl – whether a No Ball is re-bowled in all but the Last Over of an innings
- No Ball Value: Ball Faced – whether a No Ball is counted as a Ball Faced by the batter or not
- No Ball (Last Over): the number of runs a No Ball penalises the bowling team in the Last Over of an innings
- No Ball (Last Over): Rebwl: All – whether a No Ball on All balls in the Last Over of an innings is re-bowled
- No Ball (Last Over): Rebwl: Last Ball – whether a No Ball on the Last Ball of the Last Over of an innings is re-bowled. NB: Only one of these checkboxes can be ticked, so ticking one will untick the other
- Wide Value: - the number of runs a Wide penalises the bowling team in all but the Last Over of an innings
- Wide Value: Rebwl – whether a Wide is re-bowled in all but the Last Over of an innings
- Wide Value: Ball Faced – whether a Wide is counted as a Ball Faced by the batter or not
- Wide (Last Over): the number of runs a Wide penalises the bowling team in the Last Over of an innings
- Wide (Last Over): Rebwl: All – whether a Wide on All balls in the Last Over of an innings is re-bowled
- Wide (Last Over): Rebwl: Last Ball – whether a Wide on the Last Ball of the Last Over of an innings is re-bowled. NB: Only one of these checkboxes can be ticked, so ticking one will untick the other
Pairs Cricket
- Overs per Pair: - the number of overs each batting pair are allowed to bat for in a Pairs Cricket match
- Change Striker: - this should be ticked if the non-striker on a Pairs Cricket or Grace Period ‘dismissal’ must face the next ball. NB: Only active if the Match Type Format is Pairs or Grace Period: Balls or Wickets has a value
- Starting Runs: - the number of runs a team starts their innings on, to avoid going into a negative total because of penalties incurred. NB: Only active when Grace Period Runs: Lost has a value
- Auto Retire Prompt: Balls – the number of balls faced by a batter at which Auto Retire is enforced, so there will be a prompt for the scorer to confirm the retirement at this value
- Auto Retire Prompt: Runs – the number of runs scored by a batter at which Auto Retire is enforced, so there will be a prompt for the scorer to confirm the retirement at this value
Last Batter Stands
In addition to the above combination of Match Type settings that may be required for Last Batter Stands cricket, there is also a new Batters per Team: Last Batter Stands checkbox that should be ticked if the last batter can bat without a partner until the maximum number of overs are completed.
Web-Admin
Finally, for Web-Admin users, these Match Type settings will only be accessible when the Match Type -> View dropdown is set to Recreational/Junior cricket, rather than Professional.