Resources Hub

Thanks for volunteering your time at your club.  Coaches, Managers and Volunteers play a crucial role in the smooth running of the season -  from making sure players get to the right ground on time, to helping our junior players get the best out of their game.

This page contains all the resources you will need as a coach, manager or volunteer at Kissing Point Cricket Club. For Junior coaches and managers having further questions, please contact the Director of Junior Cricket. Senior captains with the same should contact the Director of Senior Cricket.

Some links point at external websites and these links may become dead over time. If you spot a link not working, or would like a link added to this page, contact the webmaster.

Relevant dates for the HK&HDCA competition are listed below. NSJCA dates will be posted when received.

Mandatory coach registration - Junior teams

Each team must have a coach with Management Access linked to the team. If the team does not have a coach, please contact the registrar for a registration link (free). Please see this CNSW document for more.

This is an administrative process and there is not a requirement for coaches to achieve accreditation or attend a coaching course

As always, club volunteers will need a active WWC number registered against their record, unless they are exempt.

• Cricket NSW Coaching courses
• Cricket Australia - Junior Cricket Pathway
• Cricket NSW Volunteer accreditation
• Mandatory Coach for team requirement (from September 6th) - each team must have at least one coach nominated in PlayHQ with Management Access turned on. You have management access if you can see the Squad tab in the Team section of My Teams. If you are the coach and do not have this, contact [email protected]

See below for who can provide support. Please pass this information on to parents. The club cannot change personal details of participants or parents in PlayHQ.

PlayHQ provides extensive documentation on their system.

Self Service

Link: https://www.playhq.com/account/profile

• Edit PlayHQ profile
• Change of email address in PlayHQ
• Add/edit accreditations including WWC (only available if you provided this when registering)
• See registration history
• View memberships
• View your teams

Play Cricket Support

Link: https://playcricketsupport.cricket.com.au/ - choose "Submit a request"

• PlayHQ registration and payment issues
• Cricket ID issues
• Merging stats from MyCricket (old platform) to Play Cricket platform
• Any other PlayHQ technical issue

The Club

• Junior Mixed Cricket: [email protected]
• Senior Cricket (open age): [email protected]
• Girls Cricket: [email protected]
• Registration questions not handled by Play Cricket Support: [email protected]
• KPCC website issues - [email protected]
• Club matters - [email protected]
• Nominating as a volunteer: [email protected]

PlayHQ has improved over the last season with new features and fixes. Check the links below for updates and known issues:

• Current Issues & Bugs
• PlayHQ release notes - updates and changes
• Cricket Australia Product roadmap

The club recommends using PlayHQ e-scoring for competition fixtures, with a secondary scorer or paper scoring as a backup. Non-competition (U8 to U11 in the HK&HDCA) game results do not have to be entered into PlayHQ.

• Under 8 and 9 - print landscape - up to 5 batting pairs and 5 overs per pair
• Stage 1 (U10 -  U11) - best printed on A3
• Stage 2 (U12 - U13) - best printed on A3, or PlayHQ E-scoring (preferred).
• Stage 3 - U14 and up - use the normal scorebook provided, or PlayHQ E-scoring (preferred).

Retirement rules vary per competition.

HK&HDCA

In competition grades, the retirement score or balls faced is defined in the rules for the relevant age group.

Retired batters return in the order of retirement.

Example:

• Batter at position 1: Retires at 40 after facing 30 balls
• Batter at position 3: Retires at 15 after facing 30 balls
• Batter at position 1 returns to bat before batter at position 3, provided the innings has not been completed.

NSJCA

In competition grades, the retirement score, balls/overs faced is defined in the Blue Book.

Retired batters return in order of ascending score.

Example:

• Batter at position 1: Retires at 40 after facing 10 overs
• Batter at position 3: Retires at 15 after facing 6 overs
• Batter at position 3 returns to bat before batter at position 1, provided the innings has not been completed.

Tips for getting started on time:

• Arrive at the ground at least 30 minutes before scheduled start of play
• Make sure all players have adequate fluids, sunscreen and sun protection
• Scorers: set up for electronic or manual scoring as early as possible
• Put stumps out
• For hot weather, ensure you are following the association's hot weather rules - Bureau of Meteorology website - check for hot or dangerous weather

HK&HDCA

Resources for coaches, managers and scorers on the day of a match:

• HK&HDCA Junior Cricket rules and scoresheets
• HK&HDCA Grounds and Weather Policies

NSJCA

• NSJCA rules can be found via the "Blue Book" on the NSJCA website.

Senior competition

• HK&HDCA Senior Competition rules
• HK&HDCA Grounds and Weather Policies
• Bureau of Meteorology website - check for hot or dangerous weather

The association (HKHDCA) has updated their website domain without providing an automatic redirect from the old to the new.

If you find an HKHDCA link not working, please go to https://www.hkhdca.com/ instead of https://www.hkhdca.com.au. We will update our links as we find them.