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BUCKS CRICKET

Pathway & MCC Foundation Nomination Process

 

The nominations window for 2024/25 season closed on 30th June 2024 and selections for the 2024-25 season have been confirmed.

Bucks clubs should have received an email detailaing how to nominate players, if your club has not receieved this please contact admin@buckscricket.co.uk. Parents who have completed the survey by this date will be sent the booking links / video requirements on 1st July 2024. We will not accept nominations or surveys after this date.

PROCESS

The nomination process this year is for players to be put forward to both our County Pathway and MCC Foundation Hubs as part of the same process, rather than trialling players again for the MCCF Hubs later in the year. Please note only players that attend state schools will be eligible for the MCCF Hub places.

Existing Pathway Players & Bucks MCCF Players do NOT need to be re-nominated. These players will receieve the required information from us.

  • Deadline and a timeline for communications from us can be viewed here.
  • All nominees for Boys U10-13 & Girls U10-15 will be invited to a Nomination Training Day in August/September for our County Coaches to assess.
  • For Boys nominated to U14+ and Girls U16-U18 we will request play cricket stats and video footage to review nominations before deciding whether to invite them to a nomination session. More details here.
  • Bucks Cricket will be covering the cost of nomination sessions, providing them free to players.

 

ELIGIBILITY

Eligibility for nominees is to play at a Bucks Club, live in Bucks, attend school in Bucks or were born in Bucks. If invited to winter training, the child must not be involved in a pathway with any other County or MCC Foundation Hub in another county.

A player can become part of the Bucks Cricket Pathway from U10/Year 5 (i.e. is an U9/year 4 right now):
- For Boys, if selected, these players will be part of the U11 Regions and so need to be an outstanding player.  
- For Girls, if selected, these players will be part of the U12 Regions and we encourage all girls wishing to transition into hardball cricket to be put forward

Please nominate players and encourage parents to register their children even if they have missed out on selection in previous years as players develop at very different rates and this development will naturally ebb and flow through the years.

Guidance for Boys & Girls U10-12:

  1. Has Hard Ball experience OR confident that the player has shown enough to suggest hard ball transition will be comfortable
  2. Loves the game and will commit to attending pathway activity to improve skills.
  3. Willing to learn and accepts failure.
  4. Open to bowling, fielding & batting in different positions.

 

STRUCTURE
After the success of the Boys Regional set-up, we are introducing regional teams for Girls U10-12s this year, allowing sessions to be accessed more locally.

ECB County Cricket age-groups will start at U13, therefore we will not have an U12 Boys County group next year (but still have the 4 Regional squads). We are removing the Boys U14 Development team.

Overall, for the 2025 season there will be 247 Boys in the Bucks County or Regional teams and a further 64 in the MCCF Hubs (this year it is 275 and 62). For 2025 there will be 121 Girls in the Bucks County or Regional teams and a further 64 in the MCCF Hubs (this year 115 and 46).

    New Team Structure

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