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Welcome to the Home of NE England Mid Week Cricket
Welcome to the North-East Mid-Week Cricket League web site. Here every team that plays in the league can have their own area for team specific news, personalised fixture listings, and batting and bowling averages, team profile, history and instructions to where they play.
The league, founded in 1970, has been growing in stature ever since into one of the largest leagues in the North of England. Over the many seasons there has been a maximum of 43 teams and 5 divisions. For the 2025 season 32 teams will play in 4 divisions of 8 and there will be the usual Cup and Plate competitions with Finals day on Sunday 17th August at Whitley Bay CC.
A full History of the league from its formation through to current times is available and teams are invited to enquiry about joining through the " Contact Us" page of this web site.
Click on the highlighted area to the left to set personalised settings for the site such as your team of choice for news and division of interest for league table listings. Once selected these will be displayed the next time the web site is visited.
League News
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(Posted On Mon 13 April)
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Winning teams will follow the usual structure towards the Final. Home teams are the first named.
Teams knocked out in the first round will be entered into a second round for the Paddlers Plate which will include 4 byes in its first round.
Please update the dates of the games in play-cricket.
 Download Cup Round 1 and HUNDRED Laws
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(Posted On Wed 8 April)
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Whereas the League are affiliated to ECB via NCB, individual 'nomadic' clubs who are independent of any League CC must also be affiliated. The fee for 2026 is 20 pounds.
Details, including available benefits, may be found at
https://ncb.play-cricket.com/web_pages/club_affiliation.
Several clubs have not yet completed their affiliation.
This is really important for both the league and the board to ensure the processes are in place for jurisdiction as well as the affiliation benefits
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(Posted On Fri 3 April)
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First round Optimum Sports Cup matches should be confirmed by now and the date of the tie updated in play-cricket. See attached latest on ties and the HUNDRED Laws without neutral umpires.
NB Information on the scorer's courses; all clubs are expected to have at least one representative gaining an ECB certificate.
Fenham Falcons are keen to arrange additional friendly fixtures either at Beamish CC or will travel. Contact is Kamran Ali 07810 383 235.
Enjoy Easter and the season ahead!
Download Minutes
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(Posted On Tue 31 March)
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ECB Online Scoring Module
https://play-cricket.ecb.co.uk/hc/en-us/articles/360018664597-How-to-Score-on-PCS
This course is designed to give people new to scoring the knowledge and confidence to have a go at scoring in cricket. No prior experience of scoring is required before attending the course.
Whether you plan to support junior softball cricket or a hard ball game, this course will cover the following topics:
Understanding the role of the Scorer
Recognise umpire signals and what they mean for scoring
Gain an understanding of both paper and electronic scoring
Understand how to end the game and identify results correctly
Have an awareness of safeguarding responsibilities whilst scoring.
The course is all completed online and can be completed all in one go or broken up into small bitesize amounts that suit your needs and schedule.
To gain your certificate, you must complete all of the online learning. There is no cost for this course and all scorers will be offered free membership to join the Association of Cricket Officials via the online learning platform on completion.
Corse link: https://booking.ecb.co.uk/event/97bd2894-c353-4533-aef4-cac74d265852/summary
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(Posted On Tue 31 March)
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The MC are promoting extensive use of digital recording of matches with instant updating of the website.
An online training video is available This covers the technicalities involved and extends utilisation of automation. https://play-cricket.ecb.co.uk/hc/en-us/articles/360018664597-How-to-Score-on-PCS
A new ECB online course which leads to a qualification is also available via the NCB website.
Also, we are invited to send representatives to a PCS course at the Riverside:
Local partners at Durham ACO have the upcoming course for Introduction to ipad/tablet scoring (PCS)
Tuesday 7th April - 6pm-9pm Book vis the NCB website.
This session introduces scorers to scoring on a tablet on the ECB Play Cricket Scorers software. The session covers how to download a match, how to score on the app, live scoring plus how to get around Play-cricket.
Download Agenda for Tonight
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