Girls

Grade Convenor

Who

For Women and girls in Years 3 – 13 at primary, intermediate or secondary schools.

Premier:

The top Women’s club grade with four pre-selected teams – Cornwall, Central West (Waitakere, Grafton, Eden Roskill), North East (Ellerslie, University, Takapuna, Parnell and all other North Harbour clubs) and South East (Howick Pakuranga and Papatoetoe). Games are on Saturdays starting at 11:30am, 11aside. A mixture of 50 over 1-Day and Twenty20 competitions are played.

Premier Reserve:

This is a new grade this season open to all clubs and is a direct feeder grade to the Premier grade. Players in this grade must be U21 (cut off 1 Sept) and should have a desire to one day play in the Premier grade. It is played on Saturdays, starting at 12:30pm, 11 aside. The format is a mixture of 40 over 1-Day and Twenty20 competitions. It is envisaged that most players in this grade will be in Years 11-13 at school or recent school leavers.

Premier Youth:

This is an U19 (cut off 1 Sept) grade and is a direct feeder to the Premier Reserve grade and is open to any club teams. It is played on Saturdays, starting at 12:30pm, 11 aside. The format is a mixture of 35 over one day and Twenty20 competitions. It is envisaged that most players in this grade are Year 9-11 at school or inexperienced Year 12/13 girls.

Future Hearts (Under 14):

This is an U14 (cut off 1 Sept) grade and is open to any club teams. It is played on Saturday mornings, starting at 8:30am, 9 aside. Games are 28 overs per innings. There will be two seeded pools if there are at least 8 teams. It is envisaged mostly Year 7 and 8 girls play in this grade.

Junior Hearts Hardball (Under 12):

This is an U12 (cut off 1 Sept) grade for more confident and experienced players. It is played on Saturday mornings, starting at 8:30am, 8 aside. There will be two seeded pools if there are at least 8 teams. The A pool will play 25 overs per innings and the B pool will play 24 overs (as per Junior Hearts Quikhit rules) pre-Xmas, and 25 overs post-Xmas. It is envisaged that mostly Year 5 and 6 girls who have some experience play in this grade.

Junior Hearts Quikhit (Under 12 Softball grade):

This is an U12 (cut off 1 Sept) grade for real beginners, usually from Years 4-5. It is played on Saturday mornings, and is 8 aside. Games will be 16 overs per innings and everyone gets to bat and bowl. There will be two graded pools with all games being played at Melville Park each Saturday. One pool will start at 8:30am and the other pool will start at 10:30am, and this will swap around halfway through the season.

Mini Hearts (Under 11 Quickhit)

Generally for younger girls new to cricket or for girls who played Girls Quickhit or Boys midget grade last year. Usually Years 3-4.

Games are played on Saturday mornings at Melville Park, probably starting at 8.30am. Teams are 8-a-side and games will be 16 overs per innings - everyone gets to bat and bowl. The age cut-off is 1st September.

Draw >>

Refer to Ground Directory >> .

Cancellations

Saturday morning cancellations will published on the club’s cancellation page.

Click here for the club's cancellations page >>

Season

The season starts on the first Saturday after Labour Weekend and finishes on the last Saturday in March. The season breaks during the Christmas school holidays.

Rules

Refer Girls rules >>.

Coaching

The Club is reliant on volunteer support to coach and manage these teams. Teams would be expected to practice once a week for no more than 60 minutes.
Qualified coaching support will be provided by the Club to both volunteer coaches, umpires, scorers and all players at various times during the season. This will consist of support during practice sessions and various coaching clinics for players.

Parental involvement

The Club relies on volunteer support from parents.

Each team will need a manager and during the season parents are encouraged to score, umpire and maintain team records and player statistics. It is important that the coach be allowed to concentrate on coaching but this can only be achieved if parents are prepared to take on these other important tasks.
Alternatively, parents can also volunteer their time for sub-committee work (eg: social, prize giving, team photos etc). The time commitment for most sub committee work would not exceed 4-5 hours during the entire season. Refer Getting Involved.

Uniforms

Players must wear the Club uniform during Saturday morning competition which is available from Champs Sports at their new location at the College Rifles Sports Complex, 22 Haast Street, Remuera. The uniform consists of:

Blue cap or white brimmed hat with club logo
Club shirt - click here to view
White longs for Premier Youth, U14 and U12 Hardball; white longs or shorts for U12 Softball
White or cream sports socks
Sports shoes
White jumper – optional (the jumper also comes in club colours)

Note – all cricket equipment is provided by the Club.

Behaviour

Players, coaches, parents and supporters are required to abide by the Club’s Code of Conduct and behaviour must be consistent with the Club’s Values. Refer to the Code of Conduct and Club Values.

Awards

At the end of the season, the following team awards are awarded to players in each team:

Batting award
Bowling award
Fielding award
Most improved award

These awards will be made at the discretion of each coach and presented to players at the end of season prize giving. Players may not receive more than one team award.

Players are also eligible to receive other Club awards which are determined from the team statistics that are submitted to the Club after each game. Refer Club Trophies and Awards.

Outstanding performances by individual players are also recorded by the Club. Refer Club Records.

Centurions Club

Tradition is very important at the University Cricket Club. The club recognises every player after they have played 100 games for the Club by presenting them with a special “presentation cap”. They are then officially inducted into the Centurions Club. It will take a player approximately seven seasons to reach this milestone.

Refer Club Records.

Inter-club fixtures

Every season teams will be selected to represent the Club in the following traditional fixtures:

Kohi Cup versus Ellerslie C.C.
Haughey Cup versus Cornwall C.C
Tamaki Cup versus Grafton C.C.

The representative team is called the Junior Blues. These traditional fixtures are played on Sundays.

Refer Club Events Calendar

Selection criteria for the inter-club fixtures

The Club's Junior Coaching Director will act in the role of Convenor of Selectors. All coaches will be involved in the selection process and selections for the Junior Blues squad will be based on player statistics, current form and a selection trial.

Because of the higher playing standard and more competitive environment in these games, players will be selected on merit but it is also important that the team composition achieves balance in order to facilitate succession planning for the senior playing grades in future years (e.g. teams generally should comprise five specialist batsmen, one all rounder, a specialist keeper and four bowlers including at least one spinner plus a 12th man).

You can find out how the Junior Blues have performed in previous seasons under About AUCC >> Traditional Fixtures from the top menu.

Club Manager

The Auckland University Cricket Club employs a Club Manager who is responsible for the control, direction and instruction of anyone employed by the Club and the administration of the Club’s affairs in accordance with the direction given by the elected Board of Management. Refer Elected Office Bearers >>.

Complaints

Complaints on any matters with the way the club is administered or the conduct of any of its employees, volunteers or members should be referred in the first instance to the Grade Convenor. If circumstances should not allow this then the complaint should be made directly to the Junior Club Captain.

Under no circumstances shall a member, volunteer or parent directly reprimand an employee of the Club.