New Jersey Soft Ball Cricket League (NJSBCL) Executive Committee invites all member teams with their families for the NJSBCL 2008 Championship Finals at the Culver Road ground in Dayton.

NJSBCL 2008 CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS

MAHA CC vs THE LEGENDS

Ground: Culver Road Ground, Dayton
Umpires: Avinash & Sri
Date: October 11, Saturday
Time: 9.00 AM


2008 NJSBCL PLATERS TROPHY FINALS

NJ-XI vs DOSTI CC

Ground: Normandy Ground, Pitch 2 (Piscataway)
Umpires: Vivek & Srinivas Chirra
Date: October 11, Saturday
Time: 8.15 AM


Award Ceremony at Culver road ground, Dayton : 1 .00 pm
Lunch at Culver road ground, Dayton : 1.30 pm.


New Jersey Assembly Man & Deputy Speaker Sri Upendra J. Chivukula will be the Chief Guest for the Finals at Culver Road. Both the NJSBCL 2008 Champions & Platers League Winners will be awarded trophies by the Chief Guest in a gliterring awards ceremony following the finals.

Following the prize distribution ceremony, the players and spectators are invited to join us for a catered lunch at the Culver Road ground in Dayton. The match is expected to be a thriller with both teams in top form. Also there will be live audio commentary with a DJ performing music to make it a real fun event !

All teams are requested to confirm their participation for this family event. Please respond to the evite & mention the total number of people who will come with each team member. This will help us to estimate the approximate number of people who would be present, so we can make arrangements accordingly. All team captains and managers are requested to forward the following evite invitation to all your team members

Click here for the EVITE!

Thanks to all the players of the 53 teams (and their wives/families!) for their participation in making the NJSBCL 2008 season a success. Let us make this Grand Finale a greater success !!

Regards
EC of NJSBCL

Welcome to the home of softball cricket league in New Jersey . NJSBCL is a `Not For Profit' organization established in 2008. NJSBCL's vision is to promote and establish, the sport of softball cricket as a minority sport in the state of New Jersey . It also aims to bring together the sport and its players, participants, families, spectators, local and county officials and administrators.

Trustees of NJSBCL Association

A democratic process of election by all participating team captains elect nominated officials to the office of Executive Committee, which oversees the setup, regulation and management of the league and the scheduled games for the entire season.

Executive Committee for 2008

Special advisors are selected based on their prior contributions, experience and managerials skills to support the functions of the Executive Committee.

Advisors to Executive Committee for 2008

Email for EC will be ec@njsbcl.com

Format for 2008

The NJSBCL has 48 teams registered for this year. These teams are divided in to 4 groups of 11 teams each (A, B, C & D). The placement of teams in to group was ranked based  on  their performance in the prior year, if participated. All the new teams have been assigned the group randomly.

Round 1:

Each participating team will play 11 games as per the schedule. At the end of the round 1 top 6 team from each group will qualify for round 2. The 6 teams eliminated from round 1 will participate in Plater's tournament; the schedule will be published in due course.

Round 2:

In this round Group A plays Group B and Group C play Group D - 6 Games for each of the qualifiers from round 1.The points and Net Run Rate will not be carried forward to round 2 from round 1. But the NRR will be used resolve the tie between the teams, please refer to the rule book for more details on tie breaker rules.

At the conclusion of round two top 4 teams from combined AB and Combined CD will qualify for Quarter Final round.

The 16 teams eliminated from round 2 will be eligible to participate in Plater's tournament

Quarter Finals, Semi Finals & Finals:

Top 4 teams from AB plays top 4 teams from CD - Knockout round – Winners qualify for the semifinal Semi Finals - Knockout round, winners qualify to Finals.

Grounds:

Due to the increase of the number of teams participating, the numbers of ground available are less than last year, hence the league management expects co-operation and flexibility from the participating teams on this issue. On the issue of multiple teams playing on the same ground, we expect the concerned teams to work out amicable solution based on the published schedule. The EC will not be arbitrator for those situations. The team which has a permit from the local government body will be considered as Home team by the EC. This year EC has determined following teams as travel teams, these teams will not be awarded any home games, these teams has to travel to opposing teams ground for playing matches.

Toms River, ACT CC, Atlantic CC, Falls CC, Wayne Sparks, New Port

ALL SCHEDULED GAMES MUST START NO LATER THAN  8.45 AM

Rescheduling & Rained out games:

The league management expects the playing team captains and neutral umpires assigned to the game to come up with reschedule plan before the end date of the scheduled round.

Round 1 - July 27th, 2008

Round 2 – September 21st, 2008

Only in exceptional cases EC should intervene in the matter, as usual EC's decision will be final. EC has 2 options - Either force the teams to complete the game within all the constraints or split the points.

Neutral Umpires:

Each assigned participating team has to provide 2 volunteer umpires for assigned games; the league will maintain a pool of paid umpires if the umpiring team wants to hire someone from that pool. Failure to provide umpires will result in deduction of 5 points and penalty of 40 dollars per umpire.

The volunteers performing the duties of umpiring must be conversant with the Rule book published by the league for year 2008. The umpires should also refer to umpiring guidelines document from the website.

Non Participation in scheduled Game:

It was observed last year that some teams had not shown any interest in executing the scheduled games due to non qualification to next round. Forfeiture of scheduled games will be viewed seriously this year and may result in expulsion of the team from the league and/or Ban for next 2 years. The EC exercised this option this year and not allowed defaulting team to participate for year 2008

Player restrictions:

A player can play only from 1 team for the season 2008; each team must maintain this discipline for successful completion of games this year.

Website:

Our league has new home on the internet http://www.njsbcl.com, this should work as our communication channel for the year 2008. Please use this website for communications, score sheet updates and all other information purpose. The FAQ section offers the complete functionality of the website with training documents. This should be used as point of communication.

Forms:

All teams must complete the Registration & Waiver form and submit to the EC. The original signed hard copy document should be submitted. Teams can collect this form during balls distribution, sign & return it.

Distribution of cricket balls @ 5  PM  on April  11, 2008:

Search for Oak Dr , Edison , NJ 08837 @40.552630,-74.342030 on maps.google.com

We should assemble on Parking Lot located on Oak Dr at 5 PM on April  11, 2008

We will distribute the tennis balls; introduce the NEW Teams and collect the registration fee.  The fee for the season 2007 will be $125. Please make sure that fee is handed over to Mahendra / Avinash /Sachin

2^nd distribution day will be Sunday April 13, 2008 @ Wal-Mart parking lot in New Brunswick (Route 1) @ 5PM

Regards

Avinash Gaje

On behalf of EC for NJSBCL