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Expectations Of Team Members

• Be aware of all practices and fixtures
  
• Check sports notice boards regularly.
  
• If you cannot attend a lunch time or after school practice, inform your coach.
• If selected for a team, take team sheet home and give it to your parents.
• If you have to leave lessons early, tell the member of staff before the lesson begins.
• Know when your departure time is.
• Ensure that your kit is clean and that you have all of the necessary equipment.
• When travelling on an away fixture you should wear a full tracksuit.
• Your behaviour while travelling by coach or minibus should be exemplary.
• Take responsibility for ensuring that water bottles, first aid kit, balls, kit bags etc. are taken to fixtures and returned to School afterwards.
• Use time prior to the start of the match to warm up and prepare.
• Always try your hardest during matches and practices, even if things are not going your way. Never let your head drop. Team selections are made for effort as well as ability.
• Demonstrate good sportsmanship.
• Never question an official’s decision.
• Shake hands with your opponents at the end of the match.
• Attending match tea is compulsory and is very much part of being a team member.
• If you are not required to change into your uniform for match tea, you should wear full school tracksuit and you should still make every effort to look smart.
• Ensure that your opponents have got their match tea before you have yours.
• Sit with your opponents during match tea.
• Say goodbye to your opponents at the end of match tea.
• Excuse yourself at the end of a match by telling your coach that you are leaving.
• Thank your coach.
• Playing for a School Team is a privilege that must be earned by doing all of the above.
• SPORTS SCHOLARS SHOULD SET THE HIGHEST EXAMPLE WITH REGARDS TO EVERY ASPECT OF PLAYING FOR A TEAM, NOT ONLY IN THE WAY THAT THEY PERFORM.

Expectations Of Cricket Teams

• When travelling on an away fixture you should wear cricket whites and School blazer.
• When your team are batting, watch the game from the boundary. You should only spend time in the nets if you are the next batsman in.
• Always clap a new batsman in.
• Applaud a batsman’s 50 or 100.
• At the end of an innings, clap the batsmen off the pitch.