CPA Players' Award - Voting Form

Details of the award 

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The CPA Players’ Award shall be awarded to the most outstanding White Ferns Cricketer of the Year for performances in official International matches over the preceding 12-month period and shall be judged by the players, and coaching staff. 

Voting
  • Each player and coaching staff will cast their own individual vote and is not to confer with other players or coaching staff prior to or after casting a vote in a match.
  • All players and cricket coaching staff assembled in the squad for each International match will be eligible to vote on that particular match.  
  • The external auditor (NZCPA) will then tally all the votes for a particular match and derive the “overall vote” based on the highest three players’ tallies. Where any votes are not received by the external auditor, or are ineligible or contain errors or blanks, the votes shall be deemed invalid and excluded from the tally.
  • The player who tallies the most votes will be awarded 3 points towards ‘CPA Players’ Award’ for that match.  The players tallying the second most and third most votes will be awarded 2 points and 1 point respectively towards ‘CPA Players’ Award’.
  • In the unique event of players tallying an equal number of votes per match, the count back will be in order of number of votes for 3pts, 2pts, and 1pt 
Final Season Points
  • The Final Season Points shall be the sum of all the votes cast by the four sources over the course of the Voting Year.
Security of Votes
  • The security of all votes and Final Season Points shall be the responsibility of the External Auditor.  The Final Season Points shall be tallied prior to ‘CPA Players’ Award’ announcement and released by the External Auditor through an appropriate announcement at ‘CPA Players’ Award’ event.
Voting Year
  • The Voting Year will be 1st April – 31st March unless stated otherwise by the NZCPA.
Weighting of Votes
  • In order to compensate for the uneven number One Day International and T20 matches, and to ensure that players from all formats of the game have a fair chance of winning the award, a weighting system will apply to all votes.
  • One Day International matches will attract a ‘weighting factor’ of 3 and T20I matches a ‘weighting factor’ of 2.
If in the unique event that the votes for ‘CPA Players’ Award’ result in a tie, the award shall be shared.
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