Away sides can offer to host a Junior Cup fixture if the home side cannot find a suitable date due to pitch availability.

Players and team officials shall not make racially abusive comments nor indulge in racially abusive actions against fellow players, officials, members and supporters. If a team fails to honour a fixture it will receive no points and the opposition will be awarded 2 points as for a winning team unless the teams agree to reschedule the fixture. i) Overall winner for each age group, for all Junior League games at that age group and combining East & West, as follows: Junior matches affected by over runs or reserve days of Senior GMCL cup competitions may re-arrange affected fixtures, always within the required play-by dates.In the event of two or more clubs finishing on equal points at the top of a league table, the championship shall be decided by a play off. Clubs fulfilling rounds of LCB or ECB competitions may re-arrange affected fixtures, with their opponents selecting the alternative date and venue. The age group secretaries/administrators need to be informed once these have been fixed. Duration of 16 overs, pairs change after over 4, 8 and 12 overs. Maximum 8 ball overs, bowlers have no compulsion to bowl but have a maximum of 3 overs. Players and team officials shall not use crude/ and or abusive language (known as sledging) nor make offensive gestures or hand signals nor deliberately distract an opponent.

Junior Players who play in GMCL and other leagues can only play for the inter-league side in which their Senior First XI play. Where possible the Junior League shall run on a 14 week term, ending prior to the school summer holidays. The optional Junior Cup will run upon the conclusion of the Junior League, subject to sufficient interest/entries. or 135g for junior players up to and including under 13. A tolerance is allowed though and the weight of a junior ball must be in the range of 133g to 144gGames will normally be played on Monday evening, with a prompt 6 pm start with 4 (or 6) teams assembling and playing a round robin format with two (or three) pitches cut on the outfield to play two (or three) matches at the same time. Each team plays 2 matches per match day. Its effectively a mini stand-alone Tournament and most host teams put complimentary food on post-match. In the event of any player failing to comply with the instruction of an umpire, criticising his decision by word or action, showing dissent or generally behaving in a manner which might bring the game into disrepute, the umpire concerned shall in the first instance report the matter to the other umpire and to the player’s team manager, requesting the latter to take action. c) Batsman are to retire and may not return when they have reached the run limit applicable to relevant age group. If the last scoring stroke takes a batsman past any stated retirement mark the extra runs are to be credited.

i) Overs are reduced by 1 over every 3 minutes when off the field. Minimum overs that can be played in first innings is 10. Once game starts that will determine the set number of overs for the 1st innings which will not be reduced upon further interruptions, except by reason of rule 7c. Batsman are to retire and may not return when they have reached the run limit applicable to relevant age group. If the last scoring stroke takes a batsman past any stated retirement mark the extra runs are to be credited. This ball should never be used with a batter or bat in the net as it can cause damage to both player and bat. Duration of 16 overs, pairs change after over 4, 8 and 12 overs. Maximum 8 ball overs, and each player must bowl a minimum of 2 overs with maximum of 3 overs.Juniors may play in other clubs’ Senior sides to aid their development but may only play in one club’s Senior sides in any given season unless taking advantage of the loan system rules where the emphasis is on a short-handed team being able to put a full team out by loaning players from other clubs - see Senior Rules for this system. It will be assumed that in events of this nature senior sections will have followed the senior rules procedures associated with the loaning of players. Clubs must take adequate steps to ensure the good behaviour of their members and supporters towards players and umpires.