Survey

THE SLAM SURVEY

The 2024 Slam season is starting to conclude as teams fall away during the knockout stages, so its a good time to start receiving your feedback.

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.

PLEASE COMPLETE ONE FORM PER TEAM (NOT ONE PER CLUB)

MATCH BALL STANDARD

We'd like all teams to take more consideration over the questions around the ball quality. There is the opportunity to raise the standard of the ball, but it will result in a £2.35 increase per ball, which results in a £14 increase per team for the base level entry fee in 2025. Please note that this is separate to any increase that may be required due to other costs, but as ever these are always kept to an absolute minimum.

When extrapolated, this increase equates to 22p per player, per match for the Men's competition, and 30p for the Women's competition, so would expect that to be manageable.

A decision on this will be based upon the voting result across ALL Slam competitions as any upgrade would have to be deployed across the board.

MEN'S GROUP STAGE FORMAT

On a number of occasions over recent years there has been the need to amend a particular group's format at short notice to a weekly model, which has proven somewhat successful, to the point where we wonder if this is the format that should be used for all Men's groups moving forward. Note that because Women's matches often take place on Sundays rather than midweek and fixtures work around league fixtures, this proposal doesn't apply to any of the Women's competitions.

The proposal is to keep the 4-team group stage at 8 weeks long, but to potentially fit more fixtures into it. There are positives and negatives to either option, so please look through the image below, which maps it all out.

The aim of all group stages is to have 4 teams in each group, but note that where 3, 5 or 6 team groups become necessary they will broadly follow whatever principle is agreed for the 4-team format, no team(s) will be in a materially worse position through being a group of more or less teams than 4.

Voting on which model you prefer is included in the wider survey below.

Club / Team Details

* Indicates required field

Team Name *

What competition did you play in? *

Players Used

Approximately how many different players did you use this year? *

How many of the total were new to your team? *

How many of the total ONLY played Slam cricket this year? *

How many of the total were under 18? *

Match balls and playing kit

Taking into account the price point of £8.50, were you content with the quality of the match balls? *

WOULD YOU BE IN FAVOUR OF MATCH BALLS BEING RAISED IN QUALITY, RESULTING IN A PRICE INCREASE OF £2.30 PER BALL? *

If you ordered kit from our partner Sharks this year, were you content with the quality & level of service? *

What is your current kit position for Slam matches? *

Match schedule and parameters

What group schedule would you like in place in 2025? *

What other schedule would you like to see? *

How did you find the general playing level your competition was pitched at? *

How should tied group matches be settled? *

WHAT'S THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF OVERS A BOWLER SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BOWL? *

WHAT SHOULD THE (NOT OUT) RETIREMENT OF A BATTER BE BASED UPON? *

If based on runs, when should batters retire? *

IF BASED ON BALLS FACED, WHEN SHOULD BATTERS RETIRE? *

Women's ONLY: Ideally how many players per side would you like to play? *

Open suggestions on any element of The Slam

Please separate your suggestions into separate text boxes.

Suggestion 1 *

Suggestion 2 *

Suggestion 3 *

Suggestion 4 *

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey, please now click below to submit:

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