SIX per cent of players in the Mewies Solicitors Craven League have replied to the ECB's national players' survey.

This is the highest percentage of any league in Yorkshire.

However, there is a worry that what the six per cent want – such as starting half an hour early at 1.30pm and reducing the overs per side from 45 to 40 – is not what the 94 per cent want.

Fixtures secretary Trevor Coe told club representatives at the league's rules revision meeting at Cross Hills Social Club on Tuesday: "Go back to your clubs and find out what the players want, as Long Lee, Oakworth and Embsay have done, and come back to the annual meeting next month knowing which way to vote."

Starting at 1.30pm will ensure that matches finish earlier, making problems of bad light easier at the beginning and end of a season and freeing up more social time afterwards.

However, it will also cause problems for sides whose players work on Saturday mornings, with Long Lee's Derek Granger claiming: "We could struggle to get 11 players there for 1.30 if this rule goes through."

Meanwhile, not all junior players want innings to be reduced.

Haworth West End confirmed that they will only be fielding one side next season.