THE SLAM SURVEY
The 2025 Slam season has concluded, so its a good time to get your feedback on the last year.
We want to know how we're doing in providing 'More Cricket For More People' this year, but we are also keenly aware that The Slam has to continue evolving to achieve this. So, here is your opportunity to provide us with your ideas to improve things. Suggestions from more than 2 team will automatically go to a democratic vote to see if it will be implemented ahead of next season.
We want to know how we're doing in providing 'More Cricket For More People' this year, but we are also keenly aware that The Slam has to continue evolving to achieve this. So, here is your opportunity to provide us with your ideas to improve things. Suggestions from more than 2 team will automatically go to a democratic vote to see if it will be implemented ahead of next season.
BATTING RETIREMENT
Given the primary objective of The Slam is to provide more cricket for more people, i.e. increase meaningful participation, it is recommended that all Slam competitions switch to batters retiring after a certain number of balls faced and NOT number of runs scored in order to achieve this more successfully.
As you are aware, it is mandatory for all matches to be scored on the PlayCricket Scorer App, and this can be set to notify when a batter reaches a certain number of balls faced. Note that retirement would be set against LEGAL balls faced (excluding wides AND no balls), which the app can accommodate.
This question has been posed in the survey every year and the support for this change has been continually increasing. Given that the standard technology deployed at each game would make this simple to instigate, we are reach a perfect time to make a material change to how we manage participation.
By comparison, note that it is fully accepted that a bowler's influence is limited to a certain percentage of the total balls in an innings.
As you are aware, it is mandatory for all matches to be scored on the PlayCricket Scorer App, and this can be set to notify when a batter reaches a certain number of balls faced. Note that retirement would be set against LEGAL balls faced (excluding wides AND no balls), which the app can accommodate.
This question has been posed in the survey every year and the support for this change has been continually increasing. Given that the standard technology deployed at each game would make this simple to instigate, we are reach a perfect time to make a material change to how we manage participation.
By comparison, note that it is fully accepted that a bowler's influence is limited to a certain percentage of the total balls in an innings.
Voting on the elements concerned with the above are included in the wider survey below.
PLEASE COMPLETE ONE FORM PER TEAM (NOT ONE PER CLUB)
