British Columbia Mainland Cricket League

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The British Columbia Mainland Cricket League (BCMCL) was founded in 1914 by seven founding member clubs. [1] It is a competitive cricket league and is known for its scenic cricket grounds, most notably Stanley Park. According to the league's president, Inamul Desai, the BCMCL is the second-largest cricket league in North America. [2]

Cricket Team sport played with bats and balls

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 20-metre (22-yard) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at the wicket with the bat, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this and dismiss each player. Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground. When ten players have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in international matches. They communicate with two off-field scorers who record the match's statistical information.

Cricket field grassy ground on which the game of cricket is played

A cricket field is a large grassy field on which the game of cricket is played. Although generally oval in shape, there is a wide variety within this: some are almost perfect circles, some elongated ovals and some entirely irregular shapes with little or no symmetry – but they will have entirely curved boundaries, almost without exception. There are no fixed dimensions for the field but its diameter usually varies between 450 feet (137 m) and 500 feet (150 m). Cricket is unusual among major sports in that there is no official rule for a fixed-shape ground for professional games. On most grounds, a rope demarcates the perimeter of the field and is known as the boundary. Within the boundary and generally as close to the centre as possible will be the square which is an area of carefully prepared grass upon which cricket pitches can be prepared and marked for matches.

Stanley Park park in Vancouver, Canada

Stanley Park is a 405-hectare (1,001-acre) public park that borders the downtown of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada and is mostly surrounded by waters of Burrard Inlet and English Bay.

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Organization

In 2016, the league hosted 81 teams (including junior teams), which played 1100 games in the regular season, which lasts from the end of April to mid-September. [2] The teams are organized into nine divisions. [2] At the end of the season, playoffs against the top two teams in each division are held, in which teams compete to move up in the division. Teams that end the season at the bottom of their division are relegated to the lower level.

Teams

The current list of regular season teams, organized by division, as of 2017. A total of 29 cricket clubs representing local cities and organizations compete in the league. [3] Many of these clubs field multiple teams, denoted by a Roman numeral suffix. [4]

Roman numerals Numbers in the Roman numeral system

Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet. Modern usage employs seven symbols, each with a fixed integer value:

Elite Division
  • Abbotsford I
  • Cosmos I
  • Richmond I
  • Centurions
  • Pakcan I
  • Salim Akbar I
  • Meraloma I
Premier Division
  • Surrey United I
  • Newton Surrey I
  • West Vancouver I
  • North Shore I
  • Abbotsford II
  • Windies I
  • West Coast Tamils I
Division 1
  • West Vancouver II
  • Kelowna Kamloops I
  • Richmond II
  • Surrey Hawks I
  • West Vancouver III
  • Lions I
  • Newton Surrey II
  • Pakcan II
  • Cosmos II
  • Meraloma II
Division 2
  • Abbotsford III
  • Langley I
  • Surrey United II
  • Langley II
  • Surrey Warriors I
  • Surrey Stars I
  • Burrard I
  • Abbotsford V
  • ACC 1
  • North Shore II
Division 3
  • Bengal Tigers
  • Ind-Can I
  • Cosmos III
  • Pakcan III
  • Abbotsford IV
  • West Coast Tamils II
  • Lankan Kings
  • Newton Surrey III
  • Richmond III
  • Salim Akbar II
Division 4
  • Kelowna Kamloops II
  • Newton Surrey IV
  • Fraser Valley I
  • Okanagan Royals I
  • Meraloma III
  • Surrey Hawks II
  • West Vancouver IV
  • Surrey Stars III
  • Surrey Stars II
  • King I
Division 5
  • West Vancouver V
  • Surrey Hawks III
  • West Coast Tamils III
  • Salim Akbar III
  • Master Blaster I
  • Windies II
  • North Shore III
  • Surrey Stars IV
  • Surrey Stars V
  • West Coast Tamils IV
Division 6
  • Ind-Can II
  • Surrey United III
  • Richmond IV
  • Surrey Warriors II
  • Bengal Tigers II
  • West Vancouver VI
  • Cosmos IV
  • ACC II
  • Burnaby Windies I
  • Meraloma IV
Division 7
  • Newton Surrey V
  • Cosmos V
  • Surrey Stars VI
  • Lions II
  • North Shore IV
  • Ind-Can III
  • Surrey United IV
  • West Vancouver VII
  • Master Blaster II
  • West Coast Tamils V

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References

  1. ↑ Brockton Oval Clubhouse - History
  2. 1 2 3 "Daily Hive". dailyhive.com. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
  3. ↑ "British Columbia Mainland Cricket League: Club Listing". bcmcl.ca. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
  4. ↑ "British Columbia Mainland Cricket League: Competition Structure 2017 Regular Season". bcmcl.ca. Retrieved 2017-08-04.


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