ICC Annual Conference

The ICC announced on 29 June the outcomes from its week of meetings at Lord's, including Friday's annual conference. Go here for major decisions and changes proposed for ICC Playing Conditions.

Fragata Resort Cricket

The first inter-resort cricket tournament will take place on 5th July at the Cricket Ground. Three teams are taking part in this tournament sponsored by "Fragata". The tournament was launched at Soneva Gili resort on 25 June 2007.

The tournament is a tape-ball tournament with one round of matches, and the top two teams playing in the final. Each match will consist of 15 overs.

Match schedule

M1:Soneva Gili vs Meeru Island Resort (time 08:30 – 10:30)
M2: Taj coral vs Meeru island Resort (time 11:00 – 13:00)
M3: Soneva Gili vs Taj Coral (time 13:30 – 15:30)
M4: Final Match (time 16:15 – 18:15)

Sony Ericsson Division 1

The Sony Ericsson Cup, Limited Over Division 1 tournament will start on July 8. Teams are requested to send in their team lists before 13:00 hrs on 1 July 2007. Teams should follow the ranking list agreed at the meeting held on 21 June 2007 to finalise their teams. Three foreign players can be registered by a team but only two plays can play at the same time.

As announced last year CCBM will be providing financial assistance for Division 1 teams beginning this year. The assistance will be for coaching and for the purchase of equipment. Teams need to meet the following minimum criteria to qualify for the assistance money.

To claim for monthly funds for coach teams need to fulfill the following requirements.

- Teams must send practice schedule before 30th June 2007.
- Daily attendance sheet signed by coach, manager or captain should be submitted to CCBM every month.
- Teams should hold a minimum of 3 practice sessions per week – starting July 2007 – December 2007. (During the month of Ramazan 02 practice sessions a week)
- A minimum of 7 players should be present for every session.
- A sum of MRF. 3,000.00 will be disbursed each month if all papers are submitted before 10th of each month.

To claim money for cricket equipment teams need to fulfill the following requirements

- A valid purchase of cricket equipments up to MRF. 15,000.00 for each team is provided by the board till December 2007.
- All supporting documents should be submitted to CCBM with the claim.
- Teams can also send purchase orders from any sports shop (only cricket equipments), and CCBM will make arrangements to issue the goods from the shop.

Good luck to all the teams!

MSHHSA lifts the Sony Ericsson Cup

MS Helping Hand Sports Academy lifted the Sony Ericsson Cup Division 2 trophy today beating OFFU FC by 95 runs. MSHHSA won the toss in the morning and batted first. Adly Ahmed Didi gave the team a great start, scoring 90 off 92 runs. His 90 runs included 7 fours and 2 sixes. Mahmood Riyaz made 43 and Mihusan Hamid 28. At the end of their 40 overs MSHHSA were 234 for 8. Visham, Suzain and Adnan took 2 wickets each for OFFU.

OFFU started in a cavalier fashion scoring 100 runs in their first 10 overs. Ali Suzain made 44 runs in this early onslaught. He was supported by one of the young stars of the tournament Jilwaz Rasheed who made 20 runs. After the departure of Suzain, and then Mustaq Ahmed Didi for 33, OFFU run chase hit rock bottom, with some quick wickets. They managed only 39 after the initial high, and were all out in the 28th over. Mahmood Riyaz took 3 for 19 in 6 overs. Adly Ahmed Didi was adjuged player of the tournament.

Ahmed Kaleem who scored 351 points in the player ranking was awarded the top player of the tournament. Jilwaz Rasheed with 312 points was second, and Ali Suzain with 262 points was third.[more >>]

Club of the Year Award

During the Cricket Evening function held in May, CCBM announced that a Rf. 10,000 award will be presented to the best club beginning 2007. The purpose of the award is to provide an incentive to clubs, to motivate teams and players and to provide a financial bonus to top performing teams. Presently CCBM is developing criteria to select the team of the year, and would like your input to make this workable. Below is the criteria being developed to select the Club of the Year.

1. Clubs will be ranked after each tournament and points will be given according to the following scale.
Champion team 100 pts
Runner-up team 75 pts
Third placed team 50 pts
Fourth placed team 40 pts
Fifth placed team 30 pts
Sixth placed team 20 pts
Seventh and below placed 10 pts each.
(On average upto 4-6 teams take part in CCBM tournaments. As such points below fifth ranking will be allocated accordingly)

2. Apart from the champion and runner-up, teams will be ranked by points earned in the tournament. If two teams are equal in points net run rate (NNR) will be used. If equal on NNR, head to head wins will be counted.

3. Each win in a game will earn the club 5 bonus points. An average of the bonus points (bonus points/number of matches played) will be used in the final equation to select the top team. Bonus points will be awarded only to those teams who complete more than 7 matches in a year.

4. The final equation to select club of the year will be as follows
Points from Ranking + Bonus win points (average) = Total club points.

5. Trophy and prize money will be given away as below;
Cricket Evening Function - Club of the Year Trophy
1st tournament played by the club - Rf 4,000
2nd tournament played by the club - Rf 3,000
3rd tournament played by the club - Rf 3,000
(teams can choose which tournament to draw their prize money)

Sony Ericsson Cup Match 6: Offu beat Male' Sports by 6 wickets

OFFU FC sprang the surprise of the tournament by beating Male' Sports by 6 wickets in the 6th match of the Sony Ericsson Cup. The margin of defeat does not do justice to OFFU who displayed a spirited performance in the filed after having won the toss. Male' Sports lost their first wicket, that of Ali Niyaz in bizarre fashion as his helmet fell on the wicket. The team score was just 15. Wickets fell in quick succession after their key batsman Nadheem was brilliantly bowled out by a slow ball from one the most promising player of the tournament Jilwaz Rasheed. Male' Sports lost their next 5 wickets for just 10 runs. Mohamed Nasir and Mohamed Faisal tried to revive the batting making 12 and 13 runs respectively. Fayyaz Ali was the only other player to reach double figures with 12 runs. In the end they were all out for 73 in 27.4 overs.

The total was never going to test OFFU as they made the deficit in 17.3 overs. However, Male' Sports with their strong bowling line up were never going to give up without a fight. They came strongly at OFFU and took 4 wickets, with Mohamed Shafeeg taking 2 wickets for 28 in 6 overs. Jilwaz top scored with 21 runs.

Sony Ericsson Cup Match 5: MSHHSA beat Vyansa by 10 wickets

MS Helping Hand Sports Academy (MSHHSA) showed their that they are one of the top teams of the Sony Ericsson CUp by beating Vyansa by 10 wickets in the 5th match of the tournament. Vyansa won the toss and batted first scoring just 142. Ali Nihad and Mohamed Azlee put up some resistance scoring 43 and 44 runs respectively. Shamin Habeeb took 3 for 17 in 4 overs.

MSHHSA openers Ahmed Hassan and Manmood Riyaz went after Vyansa bowling ruthlessly overcoming the total in just 14 overs. Ahmed Hassan made 57 runs in 34 balls and Mahmood Riyaz 56 in 54 balls. Their runs chase was assisted by 31 extras by Vyansa. [scoresheet]

CCBM salutes all who help us to develop cricket

yes all, i have being following your comments. great. some are strong and personal but thats what life is. i personally joined the board because of the love of the game. unfortunately i am not a good fielder, bowler or batsman but am a good scorer i mean in the books. thats why I joined the board. since then have been working with who ever is available to develop the game. i appreciate the work of all who made us come here. presently i have great respect for the players. moosa i still go cold when i think of the effort u put at the last ACC game to win the bahrain or oman game if am not wrong. u have real charisma and love for the game and i am always taking example of moosa in every occasion. you played an excellent game. those who feel that we cant organise do help us. i am preparing a statement on how we spend the sponsor money. As one has suggested we are always giving assistance to the clubs. from the sponsor money we allocate cash assistance. big prize money come from it. also number of tours has being organized for the youngsters and the national sides from that saving. so please dont be so bold and blunt. talk to the club people and appreciate the amount being given to them. i need strong teams and we will support. this time division one clubs are allocated each 30000 but they got to come and play cricket. so its for coaches assistance and equipment. so come strong teams we need managers. come and definitely if u spend that money for cricket taking the youngsters and practice. i will give the money to them i mean such teams. last year we made a roster for teams to practice certain days and for each session if they can come up with 8 players we were ready to give 1000. but no club could reach this and get the money. so guys i will give money for clubs if they practice and perform. i like the work of people who come and help. they are all (i dont mention names for the benifit of every one involved) great cricket lovers who do it for their love of the game. need more and more volunteers. we will give money to players, clubs, administrators the more we can raise. thanks for the businesses who are helping us. they are doing a great job. we have good cricket lovers do all come. i am one of the team members sharing knowledge on my areas of expertise. help me and us and any one who wants to take over, i am welcome and i be part of the team to help. cheers all. ahmed hassan didi CCBM

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Sony Ericcson Cup Match 4: OFFU FC beat New Star

Offu FC beat New Star by 158 runs in the 4th match of the Sony Ericcson Cup Div 2 limited over tournament. Offu won the toss and batted first. Youngster Jilwaz Rasheed gave their innings a cracking start scoring 53 off 40 balls which included 9 4s. After lossing 2 quick wickets, OFFU innings was put back on track by a 140 run partnership between Ali Suzain and Mustaq Ahmed Didi . Suzain played his usual cavalier cricket offering a number of chances to the opposition. He made 92 of 84 balls before being run out. Mustag's innings was more clinical finishing with 69 runs off 58 balls. Imad Ismail took 3 for 48, and Ameel Mauroof and Wisham 2 wickets each for New Star.

In reply, Mohamed Nazeeh and Hassan Waheed were the only players to score double figure for New Star. Nazeeh made 35 and Hassan Waheen 48. Mohamed Akram bowled superbly taking 4 wickets for 10 runs in 4 overs. Visham took 3 wickets for 45.

Jilwaz Rasheed who made 53 runs and took 2 wickets was declared man of the match.

Sony Ericsson Cup Match 3: Male' Sports beat New Star by 151 runs

Male' Sports beat New Star by 151 runs in the third match of the Sony Ericsson Cup. Male' Sports won the toss and were is big trouble loosing 3 quick wickets in the early overs. But Hassan Ibrahim and Fayyaz Ali steadied the innings in the middle overs. Fayyaz Ali made 30 before he was adjudged leg before off the bowling of Shameen. Hassan was joined at the crease by Faisal who gave him good support to reach his maiden 50. Hassan was close to getting his first century when he was caught in the deep by Azzam off the bowling of Hassan Waheed for 94 runs. Faisal went on to make 30 runs not out. Male' Sports posted a competitive total of 212 after their stuttering start. Ameel took 3 for 36 in 8 overs for New Star.

In reply, New Star found no rhythm to their innings loosing wickets at an alarming speed. Their three senior players went cheaply, and the youngsters had no reply to the quick attack of Hassan Ibrahim and Mohamed Shafeeg. They were all out in the 20th over for just 61 runs. Hassan Ibrahim took a career best of 4 wickets for 6 in 6 overs. Ali Tholib took 2 for 2 in 3 overs.

Scoresheet and top point scorers @ www.maldivescricket.com.mv