Junior 20/20

Junior 20/20 Grade Conditions

This is a Website Summary. The Full Conditions should be copied from here by each team and the score sheet can be copied from here


Grade Manager – Godfrey Wijetillake - Phone: see website need to use NZ Relay Service as Godfrey has a speech impairment, email: wijetillakega@hotmail.com

Coaches of teams in this grade should email their contact information to the Grade Manager so that he can be in contact with you during the season if needed. View and print score sheet for this grade using the link on the web page.

Grade Objective

This grade is for players up to and including Year 4 as a progression on from Kiwi cricket with the introduction of wooded equipment and a seamed Incrediball but plastic gear can still be used. It is designed to fit the fun, fast and furious moto for Christchurch junior cricket.

It is split into various sections, the number of which will be determined by the number of teams entering this grade, but teams of similar standard will hopefully play each other. As with all our grades the development of the player and enjoyment of the game are more important than the result.

Playing Conditions Summary

  • Players up to Year 4
  • 9.00am start, should finish by 12.00
  • 8-a-side on a 14m pitch on a grass outfield
  • 20 overs per innings – split into 2 halves of 10 over’s from each team, so one team is not in the field for the full 20 over’s in a row
  • All bowling from the same end. No one can bowl a third over until all have bowled at least two. Max run up of 8m
  • Players can be bowled, caught, stumped, hit wicket and run out. There are no LBWs.
  • Batters are placed into pairs and bat together for 5 over’s per pair. Each batter is to face 15 balls. If a batter is out they do not face the next ball and the bowling team is awarded 3 runs. They also change ends at the end of each over
  • Winning team is team with highest score including "runs" for wickets taken.
  • Wides and no-balls are not re-bowled. Instead, 2 balls are set up on small batting tees and can be hit on the offside as soon as the no ball or wide is bowled. One  penalty run is awarded in addition to the runs scored off the hit
  • A fielding exclusion zone also exists, marked by cones or ice cream lids (see below), where no fielder is allowed inside until the batter has played their shot
  • Junior size Incrediball to be used
  • Only natural boundaries – a stream, path, another match, anything dangerous
  • During play, only players and umpires are to be on the playing area. (rule insertion 14.11.09)

Changes for this season

  1. The Incrediball may be a Kookaburra, Dukes, Gunn & Moore, Easton or Grey Nicholls one
  2. Please make sure the small batting tee is used in this grade
  3. It is suggested that a ‘go to’ marker is placed 2m from the non-strikers batting crease, as a target for them to back up to. If no run is taken, they must go back to their normal batting crease. The non striker may stand at the ‘go to’ marker whilst the free hit off the tee is being taken. If no run is scored off the free hit they must return to the popping crease.
  4. Note that fielders DO NOT have to stand where the fielding exclusion zone markers are placed