The International Cricket Council (ICC) met on Tuesday to debate some essential issues and got here out of the assembly with some new guidelines. One new rule that has made plenty of noise on social media is ICC banning transgender gamers.
The ICC board accepted new laws stating that people who’ve undergone male puberty won’t be eligible to take part in girls’s worldwide cricket, no matter any gender transition, surgical procedures, or remedies they might have undergone. That means Danielle McGahey who’s the primary transgender participant to function in worldwide cricket can not play the game professionally.
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McGahey underwent a male-to-female transition in 2021, shifting from Australia to Canada to play cricket. She lately took half within the Women’s T20 World Cup qualifiers. McGahey introduced on Instagram that her cricket profession simply got here to an finish following ICC’s ban.
The ICC in an announcement mentioned that it was solely after an intensive nine-month session with stakeholders within the sport, that the brand new coverage has been formally carried out. The board outlined that the coverage prioritizes the integrity of the ladies’s sport, emphasising security, equity, and inclusion in that order. Additionally, they’ve dedicated to reviewing these laws inside a two-year timeframe.
ICC CEO Geoff Allardice added: “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.”
The ICC board additionally took a call on the phrases of suspension of Sri Lanka Cricket. It mentioned that te Sri Lankan cicket crew will proceed to play in bilateral and ICC occasions. However, the funding to SLC can be managed by ICC. Sri Lanka are not any extra the hosts of the upcoming ICC Men’s U19 World Cup which is to be held in January 2024.
ICC has additionally take an enormous resolution to cease the matches getting delayed by a very long time resulting from groups taking an excessive amount of time to bowl their overs. Taking a strict motion, the ICC has imposed a five-over penalty if the bowling crew fails to start out the brand new over inside 60 seconds. The CEC has greenlit a trial run of a cease clock system in males’s ODI and T20I cricket, slated to function from December 2023 to April 2024. This clock goals to handle the time taken between overs. Should the bowling crew fail to provoke the following over inside 60 seconds of the earlier one’s completion, a 5-run penalty can be levied upon the third incidence inside an innings.
