INCIDENTS of parents and players behaving badly at junior cricket matches are up this season and Orange District Junior Cricket Association president Steve Warrington has had enough.

Warrington and ODJCA secretary Matt Tabbernor have received nearly a dozen complaints this season regarding players and parents verbally abusing players and the instances shockingly tend to be in the younger age groups.

A code of conduct for players, coaches and spectators has been circulated to junior clubs and Warrington says it is inexcusable for people to behave the way they have in certain instances.

Some grievances have even been raised after non-competitive Kanga cricket coaching sessions and this has infuriated Warrington.

“In (Tabbernor’s) seven years as secretary he’s never seen so many complaints and what we want the public to know is that we are checking these complaints and checking grounds,” Warrington said.

“We’ve had complaints, and this staggers me, of parents at Kanga games ... and this has led to Matt and I taking a stance on this.

“It’s got to the stage where we want to stamp it out and if they face the judiciary they will be dealt with in a harsh manner.

“It’s something we want to try and stamp out as soon as possible.”

Warrington says cases are coming from players and parents of younger children and the older age groups up to open schoolboys run incident-free, as fewer parents attend matches.

However, Tabbernor will be out in force this afternoon and on Saturday monitoring behaviour at random grounds in a bid to deter unsavoury incidents.