The Somerset County Sports Twenty20

Inter-Club Knock-out Competition supported by

Bradbury Bats UK

 

 

Participating Teams:      Exmouth, Sidmouth, Axminster, Seaton

 

Objective:                                                To keep the general rules of cricket in force; to keep it simple with the following rules and to allow the Umpires to use common sense when deciding issues of reduced match length and overs not bowled in time (i.e. rain issues, lost balls etc).

 

Rules:

 

1. Hours of play as agreed – 30-minute interval between innings.

 

2. Each innings to last 75 minutes during which time the 20^th over must have been started (same principle for reduced matches).

 

3. Each bowler can only bowl 1/5^th of the overs due.

 

4. At delivery:            a) not more that 5 fielders on the leg side

b) not more than 2 fielders outside the 30-yard circle for 8 overs or 2/3^rd of overs to be bowled

c) for remaining overs, only 5 fielders allowed outside circle

 

5. Wides shall be called for anything bowled down leg side and in the Umpires opinion anything pitched one foot outside off stump. Penalty shall be 2 runs per wide.

 

6. No balls – normal laws of cricket apply.

 

7. For any over not bowled within the allotted time, a penalty of 10 runs shall be added to the batting sides score.

 

8. To constitute a match, 10 overs in the first innings must be bowled. The target score for the side batting second will be the first side’s score divided by the overs received multiplied by the overs the side batting second are due to receive plus 20 runs.