The way scorecards have been collected over the last half dozen years has changed drastically. Over the winter YMCA (and not Pembroke as I thought!) posted on their Facebook page a copy of the postcards that had to have rudimentary match details entered, before the walk to the post box to send it to Michael Sharp.
Much has changed. Cricket Leinster has been using CricketStatz in conjunction with Total Cricket Scorer for the last few seasons, and that partnership will be continuing this year. A guide for submitting a scorecard can be found at the guidance page - nothing is any different to last year.
There is one small change though. Many teams use Total Cricket Scorer to submit scorecards, either on a PC, or on the RSA sponsored iPads (and the TCS app on the iPad has been massively improved, taking on board most of the requests of our scorers!). These scorecards give all the information we need, especially for those games in the top few divisions.
But scorecards below this level are still often incomplete, so this season, we will be requiring ALL details on scorecards to be filled in. That means partnerships, catchers, runouts and who the captains and wicketkeepers are.
This will mean that captains will need to make sure that those doing the scorebook are doing it properly. Cards will be returned to captains if they are not submitted properly.
And if your scorers aren't up to the job, the LCU&SA are running a Level 1 scorers course on Sunday 25th May, so you have no excuses!