Adelaide Hills Cricket (Hills, A&EH, TV)

[smithy]

Can someone please tell me the temperature for hills cricket for the heat policy to kick in and what forecast you go by ?

The SCA is Adelaides temperature as declared on channel 9, 6pm the night before.

No play in SCA today, and whilst my club will take it on the chin as the rules were in place earlier this season, it's a really bad way to lose a finals game.

DISREGARD

The Hills CA has a 41 degree rule, so 40 we play.....most stupid thing is we take Adelaide's forecast when we are closer to Mt Barker

Mind you its always 4-5 degrees cooler up there, shouldnt get above 34 tomorrow

one Saturday a cool change is going to come through about midday and make the temp in the low 20's with all cricket called off

Not always easy to get the Mt Barker forecast Dutchy - so we opted for a measure that was easily accessible to most players - otherwise the association and/or team captains would have every one ringing them up to find out if they are playing.

Also we use the forecast as at 9am on the day of the game so your scenario is less likely within the HCA. Plus 41 degrees is pretty generous by comparison with other comps (because we acknowledge that it is often cooler in the Hills.

We had to have a heat policy stipulated as part of a "duty of care". To not have one (especially after the fiasco of that kid's sports carnival in Berri a few years ago where kids collapsed etc.) could be deemed as a negligent disregard and HCA exec members could potentially be held accountable for any heat stress cases.

Having said that it is the duty of all players, coaches and officials to ensure they are adequately prepared for hot weather and to protect themselves as well - by removing themselves from the game if need be...

[the wonder elephant]

pretty sure its 41 mate and it gos on the abc radio forcast at 9am that morning !

[Dutchy]

Juniors is 38 in the HCA which meant both semis saw no action

[the wonder elephant]

btw - my tips for the A/4 finals are:

Onkas to beat Easterns in an "upset" - assuming the Mays, Tanners, Mossop, Plummer et al front up for the Browns

Lofty to destroy SCIB

GF: ??? Anyone's guess.

Gators by a mile in the A/3s.

Lofty are playing Valleys not SCIB's...and lost to Cabbage today

and Alsgate Pump Hotel CC are no more....no loss...

scibs a grade beat bridgy outright BUT meadows bowled out 4 58 by onkas wtf is goin on meadows will be runnin scared next week as if i am right they will be playing onkas again ...btw fatal think scibs c grade might have a bit of a chance in the finals see how we go eh ...will be a big scib crowd there sat to see what happens ....

well i was right onkas beat meadows in the a1s and aldgate beat uris should be a good gf

[saintal]

TV Grand Final Day 1 Results

A Grade

Lobethal 9/201 (J.Sziller 30, S.Hughes 33, M.Wimberley 50, B.Pearce 5/48) vs Kersbrook

A2s

Kersbrook 8/320 (R.Kleemann 72, P.Neve 86, N.Pearce 83) vs Paracombe

Play to continue next week after Hot Weather Canceled Sunday's Play.

Kersbrook would fancy themselves chasing 200 I would have thought?

Disappointing that the games couldnt be finished yesterday. Hardly an ideal situation. Luckily it wont be 25 degrees next week for the fielding side.

[piccadilly panthers]

i was eating tea last night, an i started choking so bad my face turned green and yellow!!!

[Silky skills]

HAHAHA, also wheres razorback??? beaten on the first day!!!!!!!!!!

[ball magnet]

Perhaps the time has come for a revision of the heat policy for HCA junior grades. The rules are based on SACA under-age grades which play in the afternoon; therefore a call of 38 or over. Seems a little unfortunate that when temperature is forecast as such at 6pm Friday night, play is called off even though the temperature as per last Saturday was 24 degrees at Heathfield at 9 am!!!! Surely allowances should be made for the juniors playing in the morning from 9am-11.30 am when the temperature is obviously not reaching the forecasted heights of later in the arvo, and Adelaide temperatures at that!! Given prospect that the grand final may also suffer the same fate as the semifinals, the powers-that-be may well be wise to at least consider a change. Best of luck to the U14 and U16 grand finalists ... if there is a game?

[pipers]

Perhaps the time has come for a revision of the heat policy for HCA junior grades. The rules are based on SACA under-age grades which play in the afternoon; therefore a call of 38 or over. Seems a little unfortunate that when temperature is forecast as such at 6pm Friday night, play is called off even though the temperature as per last Saturday was 24 degrees at Heathfield at 9 am!!!! Surely allowances should be made for the juniors playing in the morning from 9am-11.30 am when the temperature is obviously not reaching the forecasted heights of later in the arvo, and Adelaide temperatures at that!! Given prospect that the grand final may also suffer the same fate as the semifinals, the powers-that-be may well be wise to at least consider a change. Best of luck to the U14 and U16 grand finalists ... if there is a game?

As one of those "powers that be" let me say firstly that I agree that this weekend it was very unfortunate that no play occurred in the junior semi finals. However, the rules ARE NOT based on SACA under-age grades at all. We determined our own rules totally independant of the SACA. We recognised the need to have a policy in place for reasons I stated on the heat policy thread, and such a policy is doubly important in junior grades because the ability for kids to recognise any signs of heat stress themselves and take appropriate action can not be taken for granted. The temptation might be for them to play on, so the line has to be drawn somewhere. For reasons of pragmatism the 6.30 pm forecast the night before is required to prevent early moring ring-around for cancelled games and because we are dealing with kids here the 38 threshold is "reasonable". Heaven help any association anywhere that does not have such a policy in place should one of their junior players suffer any form of serious heat stress.

The only winners there would be the lawyers.

If you have a problem with it, please raise it at next years Hills CA AGM, or better still volunteer to be one of the "powers that be" yourself.

[pipers]

btw - Gators won other the A/2 semi by two wickets - so it is Mylor v Aldgate again (possibly at Balhannah?).

[the wonder elephant]

gators in a tough semi got the win well done to eastern rangers first year up in a2s and pushed last years premier all the way ....see on the hca website that it has the a3 gf listed as scibs v happy valley at mylor wtf ? i know scibs are keen to play there but presuming they will be playing clarries ?

[pipers]

gators in a tough semi got the win well done to eastern rangers first year up in a2s and pushed last years premier all the way ....see on the hca website that it has the a3 gf listed as scibs v happy valley at mylor wtf ? i know scibs are keen to play there but presuming they will be playing clarries ?

Yeah, Mylor is in great nick now isn't it! And it should be like a billiard table by 2008/09 too.

[alice the camel]

[quote="razorback7"Mr baker ias probably the worst sport in the whole association. That man really cant handle losing or if he gets hit around a little when he's bowling.
i want them too leave because a couple of there players are absolute tossers and lose the plot on the field when they are getting beaten... most of ther team are good blokes.
i dont want a team in our association that is gonna act like that. They tried too do that sort of s***t against us and JT smashed them all over the park. [/quote]

How'd Mr baker go on the weekend, Razorback - 5/ and 100. As you said in Feb - Taity responded to Bakes spray with his bat and he did so again on Saturday -just a pity none of you other weak pr@#cks bothered to.

[the wonder elephant]

is that u again matty ? if so ha ha razorback got what he deserves

[pipers]

Hey GTS, you getting a run in the A/2s this week mate?

[Dutchy]

Where is Tex and his Meadows mates?

[Silky skills]

nah not me brother, i can promise you that.. dutchy i reckon the meadows boys r munching sum humble pie

[Cricket Fan]

Probably still drinking piss from what i have heard about those boys, and some of their performances in past Meyer Shields...

Honestly though i would of thought that Onka's and Meadows are the two best team and they happened to play in the Semi and not in the GF, which is unfortunate as both teams deserved to make it there. I still think that the GF will be a good game but Onkas should get over the top i think they have to much depth in batting and bowling.

Matty & PP (Dunbar) i hardly think you would be in position to be sledging anyone about choking as your finals performance, na hang just your cricket in general is well anyone at Meadows.

As for myself i will be going to watch round 2 of the TV GF at some stage this weekend in between dips in my pool.

[Silky skills]

u forgot to put in is well below people at meadows couldnt agree with you anymore CF, onkas and meadows r the two best but onkas did the business.. an also me and dunners didnt play on the weekend cuz.

[Cricket Fan]

Yes you are correct thats what i meant Well Below, thanks for your correction and admitting it. So shouldnt you jump of their case. Maybe thats why they give you so much shit because you have plenty to say but little to back it up.