The 2012 SCC League cricket season officially begins this coming Sunday at the Shanghai Football Rugby Club and Dulwich College.

The first weekend will feature matchups between the Division 1 DPR Hot Dogs and Pudong Power, Division 2 Digital Devils and Bashers CC taking on Leopards CC and Dynamite Devils respectively, and Division 3 Pudong 2 against the Dulwich Knights.

“This season we’ve increased the number of teams to 17 and the scheduled number of matches to 118,” said SCC President Oliver Austin. “The level of cricket is continuing to rise throughout the league and we look forward to another spectacular season.” Continue reading “2012 Shanghai Cricket Club League Starts Sunday, March 18” →

Pudong Power defeated the Dulwich Knights to secure the 2011 SCC League Division 3 championship on Sunday.

The team went into the finals with the best regular season record in Division 3 at 8-2-2 and faced a resurgent Dulwich Knights who had recovered from a mid season lull to take the Semi-Final against the DPR Hot Dogs. Batting first, Pudong sent a target of 180 and proceeded to bowl out their opposition for 120.

With a stirring win that came down to the final over, Pudong Power claimed victory in the SCC League Division 2 championship over the weekend.

Pudong Power held off a late innings charge by the Devils Digital to win the championship. With just 3 runs needed from the last ball of the innings, the Digitals dug hard in an attempt to draw the scores level following a bye from Pudong’s final delivery. Confusion abounded as Pudong ran out the injured on-strike batsman’s runner as he tried to return for the tieing run. The final result, Pudong had won by one run.

The Daredevils Cricket Club defeated K2 Cricket Club of China to win the 2011 SCC League Division 1 crown on Sunday.

The complete SCC 2011 League Schedule is now available online. Due to ground availability issues at SRFC, several games have been moved and venues changed. Because of the dearth of ground availability, all available playing days at SRFC and Dulwich are now full. Therefore, there is no further scope for rain-affected matches to be re-scheduled.

In light of this, the SCC Executive Committee, including the chairmen of the four foundation clubs, has updated theSCC League rules for rain-affected matches.

The key change is that the Duckworth-Lewis method will not be used to determine the result of rain-affected matches. Given the complexity of trying to calculate Duckworth-Lewis targets for matches re-starting after a rain break, the committee has agreed a simpler calculation (based on run-rates) would be more appropriate for the SCC League. Continue reading “Complete 2011 League Schedule Now Online; Rain Affected Match Rules Modified” →