NEWS

INFORMATION

Following the announcement that indoor training will not be permitted until 17th May, UAJCA has switched the venue for its annual trials from South Craven School to the excellent outdoor Nets facility at Bradford & Bingley CC. on 18th April.

Invitations to trial will be emailed to prospective UAJCA representative squad members  within the next 10 days

Time	Age-Group	Selectors
09:00-10:30	under-10	Alex Haworth & Chris Cummings
10:30-12:00	under-11	Andy Galley & Chris Cummings
12:30-14:00	under-12	Mark Stoneman & Tony Fordham
14:00-15:30	under-13	Robin Youngman & Malcolm Birks
15:30-17:00	under-15	Ji Mukherjee, Andy Keslinke & Jim Lampkin

29th MARCH CRICKET WILL BE BACK !!!!!!!!!!!!

YORKSHIRE FESTIVAL FIXTURES PLAN

The Prime Minister announced on 22nd February that amongst other sectors of society, outdoor sports including Cricket could resume on Monday 29th March, as part of his Road-Map to Lockdown cessation.

UAJCA offers a cautious welcome to this announcement and will continue to plan for a full season of cricket in 2021, subject to any imposed hygiene precautions.

The Yorkshire Festival have offered the first ray of hope for Representative cricket in 2021 with proposed fixtures for u11, u13 & u15 teams This year the groups have been prepared with minimisation of travel in mind against more local opposition.

UAJCA has been allocated to stage one of the under-15 semi-finals on Thursday 5th August. Joe Lumb Cup fixtures are now to hand and shown below......

CULLINGWORTH u9s LATE APPLICATION TO JOIN UAJCA

UAJCA has received late application from Cullingworth CC to enter the 2021 under-9 competitions. Former members Cullingworth have been running ALL STARS and progress has gone well, hence the application. Members will be asked to approve the application at the next meeting on 18th March.

INDIANS UNLIKELY TO VISIT IN 2021

UAJCA has been in contact with Sachin Khurana of the New Delhi tourists that have toured England in recent years. As in England, parents of the young Indian players are reluctant to consider a tour this year and will also have a very short 'summer' holiday. So alas there will be no fixtures against New Delhi in 2021. But 2022 should see a return to their visit to Yorkshire.

NEW MANAGERS FOR UAJCA in 2021

A number of UAJCA managers from 2019/2020 have now stood down and our grateful thanks are offered to Oliver Gledhill and Neil Bishop. for their contributions in providing representative cricket in UAJCA.

In their places we are delighted to have Robin Youngman [under-13] and Andy Galley [under-11] to join the group which still includes Adnaan Shafique [under-17 Joe Lumb Cup], Ji Mukherjee [under-15], Mark Stoneman [under-12] and Alex Howarth [under-10]. Coach Chris Cummings will assist both u10 and u11 teams

UAJCA TO TAKE ON XL CLUB

The UAJCA big lads are to have an Annual fixture with the prestigious senior XL40 Club. The first match will be in 2021 on Bank Holiday Sunday 30th May at a venue to be confirmed.

XL40 Club Chairman Kevin Owens has threatened to find better players to take on an UAJCA under-19 team  in 2021. This will enable those UAJCA players which have missed out on Joe Lumb Cup cricket in 2020 to be eligible. Additionally Joe Lumb Cup manager Adnaan Shafique will nominate players for this year's Cup team. The team will be managed in 2020 by Neil Bishop [Haworth CC]

The venue in 2021 will be at Giggleswick School, 1:00pm start time and duration of 40 overs.

ECB STATEMENT January 6th

This statement applies to changes in England following the Prime Minister’s announcement on 4 January of new national lockdown restrictions. In England, ECB can confirm that unfortunately all indoor and outdoor privately owned cricket facilities will now need to close for all but elite cricket activity and disability cricket outdoors.

Cricket clubs in public open spaces such as parks can continue to provide outdoor spaces for individual permitted activity.

Government confirms you can exercise in a public outdoor place:

• by yourself

• with the people you live with

• with your support bubble (if legally permitted to form one)

• in a childcare bubble where providing childcare

• or, when on your own, with 1 person from another household

Public outdoor places include:

• parks, beaches, countryside accessible to the public, forests

• public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)

• the grounds of a heritage site

• playgrounds

Any public outdoor place used for permitted individual cricket exercise activity should be suitable and safe for the type of cricket activity taking place. You must ensure that you have sought and gained permission to use facilities in a public open space and that it is safe to do so. If a club or local authority have closed cricket facilities within a public open space they should not be used. 

There is a risk that during the winter both natural turf cricket squares and non-turf surfaces can be damaged when wet, frozen or snow-covered. These conditions also increase injury risk to participants. Furthermore, essential safety equipment such as netting may have been removed. Therefore, facilities should not be used unless they are safe and will not be damaged. Where cricket can take place, adequate measures must be taken to keep warm and minimise injury risk, including to other members of the public sharing the open space.  You should be considerate to other users of public open space.

Cricket as we know is a naturally socially distanced sport that is safe to play and gives people of all ages the opportunity to exercise with friends or relatives. We know how important cricket is for people’s physical and mental health and we will continue to liaise with the Government for us to come back as soon as possible.

We know that this is incredibly disappointing and frustrating news for all involved with the game, as well as presenting further significant financial challenges. Further information on current financial support available from Government this week. and the ECB will also continue to engage with Government to help ensure that the cricket community is supported through the coming weeks and months.

The Government has confirmed that elite sport is able to continue in line with the strict protocols and measures that are in place for it. Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is also allowed to continue, and we will provide further detail here on this once we have information from Government.

The Government has advised that this guidance should be followed immediately, and will be updating the law to reflect the new rules. There will be a review of the restrictions on 15 February. Further detailed guidance on what you can and cannot do can be found here.