NEWS

INFORMATION

The West Yorkshire Squads have not yet been announced.

UNDER-10 K3 DENTAL KNOCK OUT CUP

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.

Parents please note that due to Covid-19 restrictions parents will not be allowed to congregate and watch the trials.

Invitations to trial have been emailed to prospective UAJCA representative squad members on 21st March.

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

THREE BECOME UAJCA FIRST GIRLS' HUB CLUBs

Girls wanting to play girls cricket now have the option of the Hub where the intention is to create an all-girls team[s] whilst other clubs will continue to offer places in mixed boys and girls teams.

WHO TO CONTACT

Crossflatts CC................ Lucy Hall 07966-210840

Skipton CC.................... Ji Mukherjee 07845-416301

Gt Horton Church CC... Taj Butt 07855-460969

So whatever your preference there's a place for girls at all UAJCA Clubs. Your age doesn't matter, as UAJCA seeks to get girls of all ages playing cricket. Watch this space for further developments.

UAJCA 2021 TO ADOPT THE HUNDRED & T20 FORMATS

ECB ADVICE ON CRICKET DURING COVID March 19th 2021

GET READY FOR THE EXCITEMENT OF

UAJCA is to revolutionise under-18 cricket in 2021. The clubs fielding under-18 teams will have a hybrid-season commencing with four weeks of 100 Format matches, each club hosting 2 matches. The following six weeks will see a programme of T20 Format league & Cup matches. The matches will feature coloured clothing and all the new reguulations and a PINK ball

The England & Wales Cricket Board have clarified and distilled the requirements for cricket to resume in 2021. Here are 3 pdf  documents that set out all the requirements for clubs and advice to give parents confidence that cricket is safe.

Former Skipton junior James Mukherjee [photo courtesy John Heald] returned a tidy 0-21 from 8 overs as the Durham batsmen made hay.

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......

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.

THIRD CUP FOR GREAT HORTON CHURCH

GT HORTON CHURCH CLINCH 2020 CUP CLEAN SWEEP

UNDER-9s CUP GOES TO GT HORTON CHURCH

AND HARDEN CAPTURE THE PLATE IN 2ND SEASON

The first ever UAJCA Plate competition was won by Harden CC under-9s in the final versus Barnoldswick CC, another new member this year. More soon... but here's the winners

TROPHIES GALORE AT UAJCA PRESENTATION NIGHT