Season kick-off communique

Consider this a draft, will be refined after today's (3/18/2018) BGPL meeting

Inaugural BGPL meeting, 3/11/2018

The cricket season is upon us.  The f'ers in just two years have made a very positive contribution to the club and all of us have created memories that we will cherish for a long time.  We will be spending 100’s of hours with our friends playing cricket and reliving past and future highs and heartbreaks. The time has come to again re-engage with the the club if you have not already done so, some of the ways are listed below.  

Lets top the expectations on 2018.  Some of the areas where we can contribute from a club perspective are listed below (excerpt from a July 24th, 2017 Blog post).

Things in club cricket do not get done in a vacuum, there is a lot of little things and 100’s of moving parts that need to be tended to all the time.  The more EVERYONE is involved, the more the sum of the parts and experience is better for EVERYONE involved.

BGSC-F Off Field: (excerpt from a July 24th, 2017 Blog post).

Folks were looking for ideas...here are some, run with it.  These are “Shovel Ready” projects yielding immediate visible benefits.  Take something on, I’ll help create the team with institutional knowledge where necessary.  I will also explain, what the scope, time commitment would be required.

• Grass Cutting:
• BGSC Kids Camp:
• Shed cleanup and Store: Up for grabs.  A 4 hour 8 person job.  Store items at your home temporarily.
• Cracker Barrel Fair:  BGSC-Fers should RUN the event.  Up for grabs.
• BGSC Labor Day weekend event planning:  BGSC-Fers should Create and Manage the event.  Up for grabs.
• BGSC Post-season cricketing events:  BGSC-Fers should Create and Manage the event.  Up for grabs.
• BGSC indoor nets:  Create a club wide system that works.
• BGPL:  Start planning NOW, create a club wide experience, incorporating families and kids.  Auction and teams should be created in September. Poker, Badminton, Cricket etc needs to be incorporated.  
• Infrastructure improvements:  Assess and plan improvements.
• BGSC-Website: Shell has been created, this should be our communication and information hub.  It is not, analyse and make this happen.
• BGSC Friendly matches:  Only 2 in 2017, not good enough for the club.
• BGSC club recruitment: Players constantly move and we need to always recruit, create a robust system of recruitment, welcoming the players, follow up and mentoring.
• Test Match League: Create a  four team Test Match league that works.
• More coming here...

As we can see, a few items got a cursory treatment no one really took the leadership to grapple something effectively.

for 2018, the immediate priorities is:

• BGPL
• All members must register, as of this morning (3/17) only 6 had registered.
• There are numerous tasks that are involved in running the BGPL tourney, all members are expected to play key role in at least one.
• As of now the following members have participated in some capacity.
• BGPL: Steering committee:  Bikram Singh, Parak Ananta, Satya Sundaraneedi, Raja Tummla, Mani Singh,
• Attending BGPL meeting (3/10/17): Bikram Singh, Satya Sundaraneedi, Raja Tummla, Dilip Chavan, Masood Shaikh, Bharat Patel, Mani Singh, Pawandeep Heer, John Sidhu (late)
• BGPL Kids component: BGSC-F incharge: John Sidhu, we need 3 more.
• BGPL Uniforms: Masood Shaikh
• Running of Auction: Need 3.
• Register NEW non BGSC members:  Every member should look at recruiting at least ONE new member.
• Badminton:  
• lets try to achieve 100% participation with at least one lady/child.
• Need 3 volunteers to set up badminton court and devise rules for running tournament.
• Running the daylong tournament: 4 people
• Referee: 2
• Refreshments: cross check with Food
• Food:
• BGPL Incharge from F team. 1 person
• Food/refreshments for all BGPL events, auction, meetings etc and cleanup.
• Food prep: 5 people (tourney days).
• Organizing and setting up of the sheds. 3 people
• Post food cleanup. 3 people
• Umpires:
• BGSC-F incharge: 1
• Umpiring matches: 4 people.

More to come...