Emirates Cricket League

[MOD-wmchamps]

This has been in the works for a while, but we are pleased to finally bring you all the inaugural Emirates Cricket League.

The ECL will be an Emirati based franchise tournament, similar to how Pakistan has the PSL and India used to have the Giants Cup, and will be run every alternate season.

Teams will be assigned an entire week to get their games done and each team captain or a designated representative has to post the links to fixtures in their respective forum threads.

Ex: Round 1 has to be played in FTP Week 6, Round 2 in FTP Week 7 and so on.
If teams have no free friendly slots then the match will be declared a draw.

Franchises have to play their matches by Sunday 23:59 FTP time, and games can be played any day of the week.
Ex: Round 1 is FTP Week 6, so all matches for this round have to be played by Sunday 23:59 FTP time.

Rulings if teams cross the rating limits:

1: Team A vs Team B, If Team A wins but crosses the rating limit and Team B stays under the limit, then the result will be overturned and Team B will be declared the winner.

2: Team A vs Team B, If Team A wins and stays under the rating limit, and Team B goes over the rating limit and loses, then the result will stand.

3: If both teams cross the limit then the result will stand.

Matches will be played in a Home-and-Away format, with each franchise playing the others twice followed by a final between the top 2 franchises of the group stage.

Home team gets to set their own pitches and are responsible for sending the challenge to their opponents.
Weather stays random.

Conditions for the Final will be Random/Random.

If anyone exceeds their league match rating, then the result will be overturned regardless of the difference in match ratings between them and their opponent.

Example: Team A played Team B in the Oryx league. Team A won but they rated 255k while Team B rated 240k. Team B will get the win as Team A crossed the Oryx league limit of 250k.

Please sign-up using the following format:

Team Name
Manager Name
1st Preference for League
2nd Preference for League
Approximate SOD and YOD Match Rating
Captain Yes/No

Example:

Al Khobar Falcons
MOD-wmchamps
1st choice Oryx
2nd choice Houbara
SOD 230k YOD 110k
No

ECL Management Team

1: Analyst (Writes the post-match reviews for each round)

2: Match Referee (Checks the match ratings of the teams in all the leagues to see if anyone went over the rating limits and updates me accordingly) TBD

3: ECL Manager (Sends the fixture list to all captains at the beginning of each week, for example, they will mail all captains the list for Round 1 on the first day of the week) TBD

The main responsibilities of a captain are that they will be making sure that all of their teams have arranged their matches in each round, they or a representative creates a thread here in the forums for their franchise, and that they or a representative posts in the respective thread at least once a week or so.

Rating categories for ECL

SOD
Oryx: 225-250k
Gazelle: 200-225k
Tahr: 175-200k

YOD
Falcon: 130-145k
Houbara: 115-130k

ECL Schedule

Season 60 Week 2 (Sign-ups Open)

Season 60 Week 4 (Sign-ups Close)

Season 60 Week 5 (Draft/Fixtures Released)

Season 60 Week 6 (Round 1)

Season 60 Week 7 (Round 2)

Season 60 Week 8 (Round 3)

Season 60 Week 9 (Round 4)

Season 60 Week 10 (Round 5)

Season 60 Week 11 (Round 6)

Season 60 Week 12 (Final)

Winning franchise members will all get a prize as well as those that pull UAE during the ECL.
For those pulling and posting their UAE youth pulls, the prizes awarded will be for best youth pull, worst youth pull, and random non-member.

There will be no double-dipping, so for example if worst youth pull winner is also part of the winning franchise, then the 2nd worst youth pull manager will win the worst youth pull prize.

For this inaugural edition, we will be having 4 franchises, which are as follows:

Abu Dhabi Warriors (Captain: heppa)
Ajman Heroes (Captain: MOD-MrMoose)
Dubai Bugs (Captain: GA-PowerBug)
Sharjah Barbarians (Captain: penky)

[MOD-wmchamps]

Sign-Ups

Oryx
Scott's Tots (Speedy17) Gazelle
Illawara Dragons CC (heppa) Captain
Time Travelling Circus (TDC)
Al Khobar Falcons (MOD-wmchamps) Gazelle/Tahr

Gazelle

Tahr

Walking Champ (MOD-MrMoose) Houbara Captain
Molyneux Raiders (Basto11)

Falcon

Shahzaday11 (Shahzaday11) Tahr

Houbara

Reserve
Abu Dhabi Academy (heppa affiliate) Gazelle/Houbara
Aqrabiyah Antlers (MOD-wmchamps affiliate) Houbara/Tahr
Pawnee Rangers (Speedy17) Tahr/Houbara

[MOD-wmchamps]

Fixtures

Round 1 (FTP Week 6)

Abu Dhabi Warriors vs Ajman Heroes

Dubai Bugs vs Sharjah Barbarians

Round 2 (FTP Week 7)

Dubai Bugs vs Ajman Heroes

Abu Dhabi Warriors vs Sharjah Barbarians

Round 3 (FTP Week 8 )

Sharjah Barbarians vs Ajman Heroes

Abu Dhabi Warriors vs Dubai Bugs

Round 4 (FTP Week 9)

Ajman Heroes vs Abu Dhabi Warriors

Sharjah Barbarians vs Dubai Bugs

Round 5 (FTP Week 10)

Ajman Heroes vs Dubai Bugs

Sharjah Barbarians vs Abu Dhabi Warriors

Round 6 (FTP Week 11)

Ajman Heroes vs Sharjah Barbarians

Dubai Bugs vs Abu Dhabi Warriors

[MOD-wmchamps]

Points Table

1: Abu Dhabi Warriors
2: Ajman Heroes
3: Sharjah Barbarians
4: PB Franchise

[MOD-wmchamps]

Al Khobar Falcons
MOD-wmchamps
1st choice Oryx
2nd choice Gazelle/Tahr
SOD 230k
No

Aqrabiyah Antlers (As Reserve Team)
MOD-wmchamps affiliate
1st choice Houbara
2nd choice Tahr
SOD 170k YOD 120k

[Speedy17]

Team Name: Scott's Tots
Manager Name: Speedy17 (Affiliate)
1st Preference for League: Oryx
2nd Preference for League: Gazelle
Approximate SOD and YOD Match Rating: SOD 250k

Team Name (Reserve): Pawnee Rangers
Manager Name: Speedy17
1st Preference: Tahr
2nd Preference: Houbara
SOD 175k YOD 110k

[heppa]

Heppa
Illawarra Dragons CC
Oryx
250k+

Heppa
Abu Dhabi Academy
Either, Gazelle or Houbara (whatever is required)
205k and 120k

[Basto111]

Basto
Molyneux Raiders
Tahr
Unsure on approx but hoping to hit around 175/180k come competition time.


Basto

[TDC]

Time Travelling Circus
Oryx
240k

[MOD-wmchamps]

Oryx league is now full.

We still need 15 more teams to join so please sign up.

Also I can move my main to a lower league if needed, so if someone else wants to join the Oryx league then please do so.

[Shahzaday11]

Shahzaday11
Shahzaday11
1st choice Falcon: 130-145k
2nd choice Tahr: 175-200k
SOD 190k YOD 135k
No

[MOD-MrMoose]

Mr Moose
Walking Champ (Affiliate)
First Choice: Tahr (SOD ~200k)
Second Choice: Houbara (YOD ~120k)

Happy to do the analyst gig if no one else volunteers!