The first Under-15 King’s Cup junior indoor cricket tournament is scheduled to take place at the Sorkkam facility in Scarborough, Ontario on February 7, 8 and 14. The tournament aims to provide an opportunity for youth development and participation in playing cricket during the winter months in Canada. Winter months that exceed the number of summer months that are friendly towards outdoor cricket playing and practice.

The tournament is being organized by Canadian international players Trevin Bastiampillai and Monali Patel. Registration for the event closed on January 23, 2015. Each participating team is required to pay an entry fee but the top two teams will gain some prize money. The winning team is likely to play a team of VIPs, who may include cricket academy coaches and Canadian national team players.
The organizers hope this tournament is a starting point and that there may, in the future, be indoor events at the Under-17 and Under-19 levels.
Game playing format
The King’s Cup is to be played based on rules promoted by the Australian Indoor Cricket Federation. There are eight players in a tam, each team bats for 16 overs with the twist that the batting side has a different pair of batters at the crease for each 4 over segment of the innings. The focus on participation in these games also requires each member of the fielding team to bowl two overs. Each innings is scheduled to last for 35 minutes.
So the batsman operate in pairs with the non-striker standing behind the line defined as the runner’s crease. There is a deduction of five runs from the team’s running total each time someone is out. After two consecutive non-scoring deliveries the batsmen must run on the next delivery; if they do not run then the batter is out, so five runs are deducted.
A wide or no-ball counts as two runs but the delivery is not re-bowled.
There are five methods by which a batter can be out: bowled; caught, stumped, run-out and interference (obstruction). A batter can be caught anywhere except if the ball is hit for six onto the back netting at the bowler’s end.
News Updates Expected
Hopefully later this week Canada Cricket Online will be able to provide updates about participating teams and playing schedules (this summary was compiled at an early hour of the Sunday morning and several other events are on the agenda that will take up most of the day) It is similarly expected that results and highlights from the tournament will be reported on Canada Cricket Online. (EN)