March 16th practice video

March 16th practice video

March 9th practice video

Mahmood

Mushtaq

Faiz

Khirbaq

Fahad

Mohsin

Tauqeer

Practice videos for March 3rd

Stars Practice videos from March 3rd 2014

George

Fahad

Gul

Fazale

Khirbaq

Usman

Omar Choudry

Mohsina and Tauqeer

Zeeshan

Rafaqat

Naeem

Practice video for Feb 16 2014

Naveed

Kalim Batting

Nadim

Fazale Batting

Practice video for 2/2/2014

All the practice videos for Feb 2nd 2014 are uploaded here.

Kalim

Zeeshan

Mohsin

Tauqeer

Is 41 The New 21?

Every time we attend a cricket league meeting, the topic of “involving the youth” in the cricket leagues is always discussed. Usually it’s the same chain of events that occur meeting after meeting; a few wise men bring forth their ideas and how it’s their life’s mission to involve the youth in our local leagues, some more wise men join in and pledge their support for the cause, we all clap and sing praises of probably a handful of times something was actually done regarding the subject and then we all have our refreshments and go home. Don’t get me wrong, a few individuals and organizations have indeed done their part in inspiring the youth to go out and take up the game of cricket and there is actually a youth team that takes part in CLNJ Division 3, but I do not think this is enough and I strongly believe that as a NJ cricket fraternity we have truly dropped the ball.

As they say, “Don’t Come to Me With a Problem If You Don’t Have a Solution” so, here is my solution or more of a suggestion to the decision makers in our local leagues.  Implement a rule that every playing 11 should have a player which is no older than 21 years of age. I do not believe that this is an unreasonable ask and this will not only mandate teams to involve a youth but it may also give chances to youth who are eager to play the game, but are reduced to just scoring or fielding as 12^th man for their father’s or uncle’s team.

I will love to hear from the team captains and club Executives regarding this matter. Will you support the idea of having a U-21 player in your playing 11 regardless of their skill level or do you believe that having a U-41 experienced slip fielder in for all 40 overs is the way to go ;) 

CLNJ: Color kit

At the recent Cricket League of New Jersey (CLNJ) AGM some very productive and to an extent ground breaking decisions were made such as the passage of the motion to use pink balls for the 2014 season.  I for one am extremely excited about the ruling, but in my opinion, the Execs and the BOD once again took a beautiful thing and put a blemish on it. The blemish I refer to is the allowance of teams using either white or colored clothing at their own discretion.

I believe that a league which prides itself in being organized and well maintained, there should be some sort of uniformity when it comes to dress code as well. I say this not just for the sake of argument, but have witnessed the eye sore of a game in which one team played in whites and the other in colors in a local tournament last year.

I hope that the Execs and BODs look further into this matter and make the correct call of mandating teams to either play in color OR whites as this will aid our league games not to look like street “pick up” games .