Practice Session

2012 Season

Practice facilities are assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The batting cages at Community Park and the ground at Heritage Park will be available to the MCC teams beginning April 15, 2012 for practice and/or pre-season games.

In order to reserve the facilities, interested teams should:

1. E-mail practice@midwestcricket.org and indicate the location and the day needed reserved for their team.

2. Payment in the amount of $400 (for full season), $300 (for first 10 practice sessions), $60 for each pre-season practice game. checks payable to "Midwest Cricket Conference".

Payments should be mailed to:

Hemant Shah,
782 West Oakton Street, Unit A,
Des Plaines,
IL 60018


3.The payments for practices should be made as soon as possible but before the first practice session. Failure to meet this deadline would allow another team to fill that slot. For pre-season games, payment should be made at least one week prior to the game date.

Once payment is received the ground will be reserved for your team for a period of 10 weeks. You will be required to make the payment for the next 10 weeks a minimum of 8 weeks from start of your sessions.

Please note that the facilities will be allotted on a First-Come-First-Serve basis, so please send in your reservations & payments as soon as possible. For teams that do not want to commit for the entire season the fee would be $35 per session based on availability (priority would be given to season reservations).

The following days and sessions are available, the teams names indicate reserved slots for the whole season:

SEASON RESERVATIONS (5:30PM-7:30PM)

COMMUNITY PARK MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
PITCH 1     Juggernauts    
PITCH 2     Phoenix    
HERITAGE PARK       Eagles  

All weekday sessions will be from 5:30PM-7:30PM, care should be taken regarding cleanliness as each captain will be responsible for any violations and payment of subsequent fines.

For booking a practice date or pre-season game, please send in your requests to practice@midwestcricket.org.

In order to accommodate as many teams as possible, each request for a practice game will now be allotted for 5 hour blocks only. If no request comes in for the same ground and date, then the team/s originally requesting the ground & date will be awarded the whole day.

The fees would be reduced in case 4 teams end up playing, which would be $30 per team.

PRE-SEASON GAMES

COMMUNITY PARK PITCH TEAM(S) TIME
Sat 04/07/12 Main Ground   9AM - 2PM
Sat 04/07/12 Main Ground   2PM - 7PM
Sun 04/08/12 Main Ground   9AM - 2PM
Sun 04/08/12 Main Ground Lahore Badshahs 2PM - 7PM
Sat 04/14/12 Main Ground   9AM - 2PM
Sat 04/14/12 Main Ground   2PM - 7PM
Sun 04/15/12 Main Ground Lahore Badshahs 9AM - 2PM
Sun 04/15/12 Main Ground Rogers Park 2PM - 7PM
Sat 04/21/12 Main Ground Phoenix 9AM - 2PM
Sun 04/21/12 Main Ground Friends 11 2PM - 7PM
Sun 04/22/12 Main Ground Warriors 9AM - 2PM
Sun 04/22/12 Main Ground Desi Tigers 2PM - 7PM

HERITAGE PARK PITCH TEAM(S) TIME
Sat 04/07/12 Main Ground   9AM - 2PM
Sat 04/07/12 Main Ground   2PM - 7PM
Sun 04/08/12 Main Ground   9AM - 2PM
Sun 04/08/12 Main Ground   2PM - 7PM
Sat 04/14/12 Main Ground   9AM - 2PM
Sat 04/14/12 Main Ground   2PM - 7PM
Sun 04/15/12 Main Ground Chargers 9AM - 2PM
Sun 04/15/12 Main Ground Warriors 2PM - 7PM
Sat 04/21/12 Main Ground   9AM - 2PM
Sat 04/21/12 Main Ground   2PM - 7PM
Sun 04/22/12 Main Ground Chargers 9AM - 2PM
Sun 04/22/12 Main Ground Chicago Giants 2PM - 7PM

WASHINGTON PARK GROUND TEAM(S) TIME
Sat 04/14/12 #2 Phoenix 9AM - 2PM
Sat 04/14/12 #2   2PM - 7PM
Sat 04/14/12 #3   9AM - 2PM
Sat 04/14/12 #3   2PM - 7PM
Sat 04/14/12 #4   9AM - 2PM
Sat 04/14/12 #4   2PM - 7PM
Sun 04/15/12 #2   9AM - 2PM
Sun 04/15/12 #2   2PM - 7PM
Sun 04/15/12 #3   9AM - 2PM
Sun 04/15/12 #3   2PM - 7PM
Sun 04/15/12 #4   9AM - 2PM
Sun 04/15/12 #4   2PM - 7PM

COMMUNITY PARK Time Sat 04/14 Sun 04/15 Sat 04/21 Sun 04/22
Practice Pitch 1 10Am - 1PM
Practice Pitch 1 1PM - 4PM
Practice Pitch 1 4PM - 7PM
Practice Pitch 2 10AM - 1PM
Practice Pitch 2 1PM - 4PM
Practice Pitch 2 4PM - 7PM

PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY TEAMS PLAYING AT THE FACILITIES WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION FROM MCC WILL BE PENALIZED $100 PER OCCURRENCE WITH EXPULSION FROM THE LEAGUE AFTER 3 OCCURRENCES. THE PARK DISTRICT PERSONNEL ARE (& WILL BE) MONITORING THE USAGE OF THE FACILITIES.