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updated 21.2.14

UNGRADED PLAYERS
CLEARED FOR SCCU COUNTY MATCHES
2013-14

This space is for the list of ungraded players cleared to play for their County in the 2013-14 Counties Championship.

Match Captains, especially those newly appointed for the coming season, are reminded that the grading-limited divisions are for players with a current (that is, August 2013) published grade appropriate for the division in which they are to appear. This season, for the first time, Rapidplay grades count if the player has no Standardplay grade. Players without a published grade may play, but only if cleared in advance with David Smith, County Match Controller, by their match captain. Captains must give as much information as possible, including details of previous grades and recent results as known. Reasonable notice is needed so the Controller can make an informed decision.

Clearance to play for (say) an U120 team is valid also for higher teams. Estimated grades shown are for information only. They have no official significance and must not be taken as determining a player's position in the team.

The Controller may withdraw clearance if he ceases to think it justified. A match captain himself must cease to use an ungraded player, clearance notwithstanding, if he comes to think that the player's strength is not, after all, below the limit for the division. This is an important difference between clearance on the one hand, and published grades on the other. A player with a published grade below the limit for a division may play whatever his strength.

The Controller gives notice that clearance becomes void if the player acquires a published grade in the January 2014 list. January grades do not supersede published August grades, but they supersede estimates and clearance.

Note 28.1.14. The January 2014 grades have appeared, and do not upset any clearances. Three players are now graded (see last column below), and henceforth play in their own right as graded players. But their grades are not over the original clearance limits. 2.2.14. A fourth case (highlighted in red) has emerged, in which the player has a Jan 2014 grade which is over the limit. His clearance is rescinded, but he may still play in higher divisions as a graded player.


  04.10.13
08.10.13
18.10.13
21.10.13
08.11.13
23.11.13
25.11.13
28.01.14
21.02.14 		  Sussex U140
Surrey U140
Sussex U160
Kent U160
Surrey U140
Middx U180
Surrey U120
Kent U100
Kent U180 		  295742F
292627B
225130K
277217G
150526K

295456E
296651H

  


149e


105e
  40e

   Howard, Brian W
Jegannathan, Jeyaprakanth
Pavlovic, Tim
Gluckman, Tim
Taylor, Matthew C
Karahaliou, Elia
Buckley, Keith
Clemons, Richard LM
Modica, Jake 		  now E143r. Clearance rescinded.

now E147
now D159
now E126


Question 28.1.14. Any theories on why this year's Cleared list is so much shorter than last? By the halfyear last season there were 28 names.


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