SELECTION POLICY
Selection Policy Procedure:
1. Each grade is selected by the captain of the grade, the captain of the grade below and the
Chairman of Selectors. The lowest grade will be picked by the captain of the grade and
the Chairman of Selectors. The U24’s will be picked by the 1st grade and U24’s captains
and the Chairman of Selectors.
2. If a person occupies more than one role in a selection discussion, the captain of the
highest grade not involved in selection will assume a role in the discussion.
3. The management committee will provide the chairman of selectors with a list before each
selection meeting of players unavailable for selection due to injury, suspension or nonpayment of fees.
4. Players must have paid their fees or come to an arrangement with the club treasurer in
order to be considered for selection. Any player that has paid fees will be considered for
selection above those who have not yet paid.
5. All details of selection meetings must remain confidential. The captains and the
Chairman of Selectors will not discuss any details of selections with any member of the
Club before or after the selection meeting.
6. Players will participate in the grade dictated by the selection committee.
7. Players who are demoted are to be called by their previous captain as soon as possible
after the selection meeting. Players are entitled to an explanation for their demotion, and
this is the only exception to point 3. Any player who is dissatisfied with their selection
and has a valid concern must contact the Chairman of Selectors.
8. Captains are to contact all players in their respective teams by 8:00pm on the Thursday
before the match. (Contact can be made in person or via a phone call. SMS or leaving a
phone message is insufficient to confirm a player’s availability. The Chairman of
Selectors will publish teams on the website 24hrs before the match.
9. Captains are to submit their teams into mycricket at the latest by 7pm Friday evening.
10. Selection meetings are to be held at a time suitable to all captains and the chairman of
selectors, allowing sufficient time to fulfil the requirements of point 5. Any captain
unable to attend the meeting can send a suitable representative. The representative needs
to be approved by the Chairman of Selectors in order to ensure that all discussions remain
confidential. No alcohol is to be consumed during a selection meeting. All captains must
bring their score books with them so that accurate statistics are available.
11. In order to serve the purpose of ensuring Epping’s competitiveness across all grades and
thus challenge for the Club Championship, and considering the severely damaging effect
player unavailability’s have on the strength of all grades, Epping Bulls Cricket Club will
enforce the following selection policy:
Any player who makes them self unavailable for any regular season round, for any reason
should not assume he will return in the grade that he was previously selected in.
The selection committee may, in certain circumstances, may make exceptions to this rule.
The selection committee will take the following factors, and only these factors into
account:
a) The amount of choice the player has in participating in the activity which renders them
unavailable for that round;
b) The importance of that event/activity as determined by the selection committee.
Clearly this is a subjective call, but players should be reminded that so too are any
selection decisions made by the selection committee, and furthermore a degree of
common sense will be employed by the selection committee: Immediate family
members’ weddings and funerals, and genuine, unavoidable work commitments will be
viewed as more important than holidays, junkets and friend’s weddings. These categories
are not exhaustive and should be viewed as illustrative of the committee’s approach and
not as categories of activities which are exceptions to the rule;
c) The amount of prior notice that the player gives the selection committee;
d) The regularity with which that player has made them self unavailable in their time with
the club.
Further, it should be reiterated: If you miss a game; don't assume you will come back in
the grade you were previously selected in. It is for you to justify to the selection
committee why your circumstance is exceptional; it is not for the committee to have to
justify their decision.
12. If a player misses a further match through unavailability having already returned in a
lower grade, the player shall not be forced to return in a lower grade again unless it is the
judegement of the selection committee that his form warrants selection in that grade.
13. Each grade’s captain is exempt from point 10.