Revised ECB Guidance on Cricket Practice

The Club is required by the Corona Virus Act 2020 to follow public health guidelines. The police and other authorities also have powers under the Act to deal with breaches of the guidelines. Any member breaching of government, ECB or Club guidelines will face disciplinary action, the minimum penalty for which will be a ban.

The arrangements below have been developed within the context of the revised ECB guidance. Current government guidelines can be found here.

• Members will need to have paid a subscription to participate in any form of cricket practice at the Club – see further below
• Social distancing of at least two metres must be maintained at all times (except between members of the same household).
• Playing cricket individually is permitted e.g. practice of individual cricket skills or fitness activities
• Small group cricket activity, training or fitness in groups of no more than six (6), is permitted, keeping two (2) metres apart at all times.
• Cricket coaches, can now undertake small group sessions of up to six (6) people including the coach (1:5)
• Members may only to attend colts age group sessions by arrangement with their coach or team captain so that a cap on numbers can been maintained
• Nets must be pre-booked in the same way as before
• Access to the toilets will be permitted – but only during group sessions and only one person is allowed in the toilets at a time
• Showers and changing rooms remain closed for hygiene reasons
• No saliva or sweat should be applied to the ball at any time.
• Wash hands at home before and after visiting the Club.
• Bring and use your own hand sanitiser – this must contain a minimum alcohol content of 60%

• Only members who have paid an appropriate subscription will be able to make a booking – if players are experiencing difficulties in maintaining their membership through loss of earnings because of the pandemic they should contact Ranjit Gopi - Colts parents should contact Dave Smith. Members must appreciate however that the Club needs your financial support to survive and we cannot easily grant concessions.
• Fellow users of your net must also have paid their subscription
• Slots will normally be released for the coming week each Sunday evening
• Nets can only be used if pre-booked on the on-line system – this is to support track and tracing in the event that an infected person has been using the nets
• Bookings must include ALL of your fellow net users’ names – please see the tracing requirements for Covid-19 as above
• Members may only book in one net session per day
• Members may BOOK a maximum of TWO net sessions per week in advance
• If you are already at the nets and see that the next slot is free/not booked yet, you can book and stay in the net for another ONE hour. ONLINE BOOKING IS COMPULSORY and you must book no more than 30 minutes in advance of the new slot
• Bookings will be on a first come, first served, basis
• The nets will be open between 9am and 9pm every day
• Certain slots will be blocked on certain days. Some of them might be released closer to the time
• If you are not planning to use the net after booking, please cancel the slot as someone else might be wanting to use it
• Book by giving NET# start time followed by names of all attendees including the person booking (if attending). For e.g. NET2 9am Tom & Karl new
• All attendees need to be registered on the Sunbury website and be a member of the SccAstroNets team
• Team admins will be on the lookout for anyone violating however members can also report any violation they see to the team admins. Team admins will be visible on the team page for SccAstroNets

• SccAstroNets will be setup to organize and book nets 1 to 4. Members who have paid their subs for 2020 can request to be added to this team by :
• On a browser, logging into the sunburycricket website : Your Account-->Manage Roles-->Apply to be a Player-->Other-->SccAstroNets-->Apply
• Pitchero club app: Manage my account-->my roles-->apply to be a player-->other-->SccAstroNets-->Apply

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