Appeals & Reviews Record

The undernoted tables note the outcomes of appeals against decisions of the WDCU’s Cricket Management Committee (“CMC”), and matters considered by Committees of review.

Club Appeals

Club Decision of CMC Date of appeal Decision of Appeal Panel
Renfrew CC The CMC decided to award the Renfrew CC v Greenock match on 29-06-2024 to Greenock CC with a 25-0 points allocated. 22/08/2024 The appeal was not upheld.
Partick CC & Titwood CC The CMC decided that neither Partick or Titwood should be promoted to Premiership 2 for season 2024. 23/10/2023 The appeal was fully upheld.
Partick CC The CMC deducted Partick CC 25 points for a pitch being deemed unfit by a CSMOA Appointed umpire. 09/10/2023 The appeal was fully upheld.
Renfrew CC The CMC decided to reject the request by Renfrew CC to award the cancelled Glasgow Accies v Renfrew games on 15-07-2023 to Renfrew CC and apply a 25-0 points win to Renfrew CC 25/09/2023 The appeal was not upheld.
Clydesdale CC The CMC decided not to permit the registration of Zachary McCaskie as a Paid Professional, requested by Clydesdale CC on 12th June 2023 as the individual did not meet the criteria required. 13/07/2023 The appeal was not upheld.
Stirling County CC The CMC decided that Stirling County CC be deducted 26 points for playing an ineligible player between 22 May 2022, the date a Stirling County CC player played for Bute County CC, and 23 June 2022, the date the WDCU were informed that this had happened. 23/06/2022 The appeal was not fully upheld. The 26 point penalty remained. The application of the penalty was, however, amended to Stirling County CC being deducted 13 points in season 2022 with the remaining 13-point deduction being suspended conditional on Stirling County CC not again breaching player eligibility rules up to, and including, 31 August 2024.
GHK CC The CMC determined that GHK CC did not meet the criteria, as these related to junior cricket, for its 1st XI to be promoted from the Second Division of the WDCU Saturday League to the First Division. 03/12/2021 The Appeal Panel, unanimously, upheld GHK CC’s appeal, noting that the CMC’s intention to apply the criteria that were in place before amendments were made to them for the 2021 season, when deciding on clubs’ eligibility for promotion, not being intimated to member clubs was an error.  The Panel considers that in the absence of this intention being intimated to them, member clubs could reasonably conclude that the amended criteria would apply.
Ayr CC The CMC decided that Ayr CC be deducted 100 league points and 4 McCulloch Cup points for playing an ineligible player from the start of the season up to and including 1 June 2019. 24/06/2019 The Appeal Panel, unanimously, upheld Ayr CC’s appeal and, noting that Kenroy Peters’ ineligibility to play cricket for Ayr CC accrued from the Home Office’s amended opinion intimated to it on 5 June 2019, saw no reason to impose any points deduction(s) for matches played prior to this date, the prior period being, in effect, covered by the Home Office’s previous opinion, provided on 31 May 2019, namely that he could play.
Galloway CC The CMC decided that Galloway CC be deducted 150 points for playing ineligible players between 20 May 2018, the date two Galloway CC players played for Forres St. Lawrence CC, and 21 July 2018, the date the WDCU were informed that this had happened. 16/08/2018 The appeal was not fully upheld. The 150 point penalty remained. The application of the penalty was, however, amended to Galloway CC being deducted 75 points in season 2018 with the remaining 75-point deduction being suspended conditional on Galloway CC not again breaching player eligibility rules up to, and including, 31 August 2020.
Glasgow Accies CC The CMC decided not to permit the registration of Callum Russell, requested by Glasgow Accies CC on 30 July 2018, for the remainder of the 2018 season. 07/08/2018 The appeal was not upheld.
Dumfries CC The CMC decided that the match between West of Scotland CC and Dumfries CC on 7 July 2018, which was abandoned because of an unfit pitch, would be void and that no points would be awarded to either side.  A warning was issued to West of Scotland CC that it faced sanctions should there be a recurrence of a sub-standard pitch for the remainder of the season. 24/07/2018 The appeal was not upheld.

 

Committees of review

Initiating person(s) Matter(s) Date of review Decision of Committee of review
Parvase Majeed A Committee of review established by Cricket Scotland and the WDCU to consider a complaint about the origins of, and handling by the WDCU of, a club complaint pursuant to the Rowan Cup match between Poloc CC and Ferguslie CC on 27 June 2019. July to December 2021 The Committee concluded the WDCU did not have a basis upon which to consider the club complaint. Notwithstanding this, ultimately fatal, error, the Committee found that:

  • the club complaint had been timeously acknowledged by the WDCU;
  • it was timeously, and correctly, passed to the Disciplinary & Appeals Committee (“D&AC”); but
  • a determination by the D&AC as to the WDCU’s competence to consider it was not made.

The complainant club should have been informed that the WDCU could not consider its complaint, thereby ending its involvement. All actions by the WDCU, after consideration of the complaint by the D&AC, were, therefore, and notwithstanding procedures for handling competent complaints were followed, carried out in error.  The Committee also found there was sufficient contradiction in the versions of events surrounding the origin of the club complaint that a determination of what actually happened could only be made after a detailed, independent, investigation, and this went beyond the remit agreed with the complainant.  The Committee of review’s conclusions also highlighted:

  • intimation to a respondent of a complaint against them being considered by the WDCU should be done timeously;
  • each complaint should be considered in isolation until determined;
  • guidance on conflicts in the “WDCU Disciplinary & Appeals, Policy & Procedures” should be rigorously applied;
  • whether a person has a conflict should be continuously reviewed throughout the consideration of a matter;
  • a complaint received by any member of the D&AC should be timeously circulated to all members, unless conflicted;
  • all persons involved in the consideration and/or management of complaints should be clear as to their roles; and
  • persons investigating a complaint should be cognisant of there being limitations on discussing and/or sharing information.