The International Cricket Council (ICC) Board confirmed the terms of the suspension. sri lanka cricket (SLC). After hearing representations from the SLC, the ICC Board decided that Sri Lanka can continue to compete internationally in both bilateral cricket and ICC competitions after being recently suspended for breaching its obligations as a member , particularly for violations of the requirement to manage their affairs autonomously and without government interference.
However, the funding the SLC receives will be controlled by the ICC and the ICC Board confirmed that Sri Lanka will no longer host the ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2024, which will now be held in South Africa.
The ICC Board also approved new gender eligibility rules for the international game after a 9-month consultation process with the game’s stakeholders. The new policy is based on the following principles (in order of priority), protecting the integrity of women’s sport, safety, fairness and inclusion, and means any male to female participants who have gone through any type of male puberty . They will be eligible to participate in international women’s games regardless of any surgery or gender reassignment treatment.
The review, which was led by the ICC Medical Advisory Committee chaired by Dr Peter Harcourt, is solely concerned with gender eligibility for international women’s cricket, while gender eligibility domestically is a matter for each individual member board, subject to local legislation. May be affected by. , The rules will be reviewed within two years.
ICC Chief Executive Geoff Allardyce said: “The change to the gender eligibility rules resulted from an extensive consultation process and is based on science and in line with the core principles developed during the review. Inclusivity is incredibly important to us as a sport, but our priority was to protect the integrity of the international women’s game and the safety of players.
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The Chief Executives Committed (CEC) endorsed a plan to accelerate the development of female match officials, including equalizing match-day pay for ICC umpires in men’s and women’s cricket and introducing one in each ICC Women’s Championship series from January 2024. Including ensuring neutral umpires.
The CEC agreed to introduce a stop clock on a trial basis in men’s ODI and T20I cricket from December 2023 to April 2024. This clock will be used to regulate the time taken between overs. If the bowling team is not ready to bowl the next over within 60 seconds of the completion of the previous over, a penalty of five runs will be imposed if this happens for the third time in the innings.
Changes to the pitch and outfield monitoring rules were also approved, including simplification of the criteria against which pitches are assessed and increasing the threshold at which a venue can lose international status from five demerit points to five. Up to six demerit points can be made. Year period.
