Gloucestershire County Cricket League
Entering results and scorecards on the Play-Cricket system

Entering results and scorecards is the responsibility of the HOME team. However there is nothing to stop the away team entering the details; the advantage being that it helps the home team to do their duty and the away side can ensure their details and stats are accurate.

Contents

Stage 1 Entering the summary result and highlights

Stage 2 Entering the player names

Stage 3 Entering the scorecard

Confirming results

Feed-back - if you have any comments on these guide notes, please e-mail the web site administrator. We want to ensure they are accurate and as helpful as needed

 

Stage 1 (entering the summary result and highlights) must be done by the HOME team by 10 a.m. on Sunday

Stage 1

After a game has been played you must enter the summary result and any highlights.

• Sign in to your club site and become admin.
• Select “Results”
• Use the search facilities to find the date / team you want. The site automatically shows games played in the last week, so the result you want is already likely to be on the screen. See the example below.

• Click the icon looking like a notepad and pencil, in column "e" to enter / edit result
• The first page up is the “summary”. Figure 2 shows the screen you will see. Enter into this:
  • The result (who won) or abandoned / cancelled
  • Who batted first
  • Both teams’ scores
  • Both teams’ wickets down
  • (Although not needed by the league, filling in the overs box saves an error message later when filling in scorecards)
  • Both teams’ bonus points (don't include here the 10 for winning or 5 for a tie - win or tie points get added in automatically by the system)
    • don’t forget the bonus for dismissing a side for a low score
    • don’t forget points for winning with wickets in hand batting second

• You can ignore the section about the ground
• You can ignore the “toss” line
• Putting in the overs count correctly saves getting an error message later when you enter the scorecard
• Ignore the “penalty points” field – the League Admin will enter those if any
• Ignore the “declared” box (But if a team does declare, or a side bats short of players, enter as 10 wickets down).
• Enter some individual performances in the highlights box! These are used in press reports. For each individual, please give a full name and which club he plays for, e.g. “John Snooks 54 n.o. (Oldlands)”
• Click on the “Save” box.

Once you have entered the summary result and highlights, and you click "Save", play-cricket brings up the next screen (see below) for entering the team. You can decide to do that later (deadline midnight Wednesday) by ignoring the new screen and clicking on "7. back to results" at the menu at the top. Otherwise go on to enter the teams and scorecards - stages 2 and 3 below.

If you have an abnormal result and you seem unable to enter it (e.g. opponents didn't send a team, or match abandoned and subject to adjudication), please e-mail the details to the web administrator instead.

 

Stages 2 and 3 (players and scorecard) must be done by midnight on Wednesday

Stage 2 - Listing those who played in the game

You must enter both teams

• After you have entered the summary result the screen for entering the Home team automatically comes up. If you are entering teams and scorecard at a later time you get the menu that shows:
  1. Summary Result
  2. Confirm Team for (the home team)
  3. Confirm Team for (the away team)
  4. (Side batting first) Scorecard
  5. (Side batting second) Scorecard
  6. View Scorecard
  7. Back to results
• … in which case select line 2 (and later line 3).
• Enter the teams in the form you see. Figures 3 and 4 below show what the screens look like and have further instructions.

Because the League requires registered players to be in each club's play-cricket database and squads, all the names you need for your team and your opponents should appear in the 'squad members' lists pictured and described below.

Figure 3. This figure shows the screen you see when entering the teams. You are asked to do this for both teams.
Play-cricket tries to help you. It will put the team from the last recorded game in, before you start. The names don’t have to be in batting order, you can use the "bat order" numbers on the left if they aren't.

If a team is playing with less than 11, use the "clear" function, top right.

You should be able to pick all the names you need from the “squad” list shown. Your club, or your opponents may have selected a player from another team squad - i.e. your club has 2 teams in the county league, and you have played a 2nd XI squad member in your 1st team. If you cannot find the player you want, try the "pick players from other teams" box at the bottom right. Select (one of) the club's other County League teams (but not a team that plays in a different league altogether), and click on "view" - the other squad appears in a pop-up, from which you can click on "pick" to pick players.

If the player appears in NONE of the club's COUNTY LEAGUE team squads, then the player is not registered to play in the County League. See below for what to do if you encounter an unregistered player.

Finally, click on “Save Team”

Run through this process for both teams.

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Stage 3 - filling in the scorecards

To be done by Wednesday midnight

If you have just completed entering the teams, 'play-cricket' takes you onto the next stage of filling in the scorecards. Otherwise you will once again see the menu that shows:

1. Summary Result
2. Confirm Team for (the home team)
3. Confirm Team for (the away team)
4. (Side batting first) Scorecard
5. (Side batting second) Scorecard
6. View Scorecard
7. Back to results

An example of a scorecard is shown below. This happens to be from a friendly game last season between Bream and my club. (Take no notice, of course, of my stunning bowling performance!). Bream played one man short as did Upton. The card has been mostly filled in.

You will see there is a pick list for "how out" and for bowler and fielder. This makes filling in those details extremely easy and quick.

Please fill in each batsman's score and the bowling analysis as accurately as you can. Often, we realise, especially if you have inexperienced scorers, the sums will not add up exactly. That does not matter, except that when you try to save the scorecard, 'play-cricket' will tell you so when you try to save the scorecard, with something like:

You can cancel and correct the scorecard or simply select OK, leaving the inconsistency. We do not mind. If you want really accurate stats for your club then you need to correct it. There are lots of other details on the scorecard (e.g. 4's and 6's, fall of wickets, no balls against each bowler) which you can choose to fill in or ignore.

Apart from getting the names correct to check registration, GCCL will normally only use the scorecard to generate stats on best batsmen, bowler and fielder for the end of season awards. However if a result is disputed we may need a more detailed look at the scorecard.

Finally, click on “Save Scorecard”

Run through this process for both innings.

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Confirming Results

• Select “Results”, or click “7. Back to results” after entering teams etc.
• Against the result to be confirmed, click on the cross in the column headed “C” (confirm result), and a tick will appear. See Figure 1.

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