After advice from several parties including Carlton comittee man and umpire Tim Bee and Ian White and Alan Roome, cricket stars of a past decade no less, Carlton Chairman Mick Garton has announced the outline rules for the forthcoming cricket friendlies as follows.
1) Each team to field 8 players, cost £40 per team.
2) Each team to bowl 16 overs, 2 overs per bowler ( 6 ball overs)
3) Each batting pair to bat for 4 overs.
4) Short boundries 2 and 4, long boundries 4 and 6.
5) No runs can be scored behind the wicket.
6) No LBW'S but batsmen can be out in all other usual ways, dismissal results in -10 runs.
7) Bouncers and balls above waist high not permitted and will result in a no ball call. One run and a free hit the next ball will result which will be an extra ball.
8) As above applies for over stepping no balls.
9) Wides punished by one run and an extra ball for batsman.
10) Bowling is from one end so batmen will change ends at the end of each over.
11) Any ball hit over the fence on the left hand side towards the road will be classed as a dismissal.
12) The Umpire will keep score.