Media Release - Innovations continue in 1999 Mercantile Mutual CupThe fast scoring incentives are in addition to the cash prize of $5,000 and a trophy for the batsman scoring the Fastest Fifty of the season.
Any batsman who scores his fifty from between 36 and 40 balls will get $1,000, while if he reaches the mark between 31 and 35 deliveries he picks up $1,500. And if anyone can score a fifty from less than 30 balls he will collect $2,500.
In introducing the new Mercantile Mutual Cup season, Australian Cricket Board (ACB) Chairman Mr Denis Rogers said: “Our fantastic success in the recent World Cup shows the Mercantile Mutual Cup is the perfect nursery for our one-day players to make the step up to the international arena.
“The ACB regards it as the strongest domestic one-day competition in the world and that strength owes a great deal to the superb support of Mercantile Mutual, something we are extremely grateful for.
“That support has been cemented by the recent conclusion of a new, seven-year agreement with Mercantile Mutual and this will undoubtedly ensure our players of the future continue to have an ideal grounding from which to push their claims for national selection,” added Mr Rogers.
The popular “Hit the Sign” competition, with nine Mercantile Mutual signs around the ground and a cash prize at stake for batsmen who can hit them, continues this season.
The prize fund will begin at $10,000 and jackpot $10,000 for every match where the sign is not hit up to a maximum of $200,000. Last season Shane Lee of New South Wales won $90,000 when he hit the Mercantile Mutual sign in Canberra.
The winners of the 1999/2000 Mercantile Mutual Cup will collect a record $75,000, an increase of $25,000 from last season’s winning prize.
The Mercantile Mutual Cup ‘Player of the Season’ will collect $5,000 and a trophy, and the Player of the Final will collect $1000 and a trophy. Each man of the match will receive a Mercantile Mutual trophy, and the Mercantile Mutual Cup Best New Talent will win $2,500.
Also in operation this season for the first time is the Duckworth-Lewis method of calculating targets in interrupted matches. This method has recently been approved by the International Cricket Council for use in all one-day international matches and has been widely used overseas including the recent World Cup and the Commonwealth Games.
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