The International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced pay parity in the game for match officials in a landmark decision in the Ahmedabad assembly. The female ICC officials will get equal match charges as to that of their male counterparts regardless of the very fact they’re hoisting in males’s or girls’s matches.Â
ICC’s decision got here as a part of the council’s continued steps in direction of bringing gender equality in the game. There are a handful of female umpires officiating in worldwide cricket however the quantity reduces in terms of them officiating in the lads’s video games, the quantity is sort of negligible. Claire Polosak grew to become the primary female umpire to officiate in a males’s worldwide sport in 2021 in the India-Australia Test in Sydney.
The initiative is about to return into observe beginning January 2024. The ICC launch additionally talked about the inclusion of a impartial umpire in girls’s championship matches, a observe which has been adopted religiously in males’s video games because the coronavirus outbreak.
The decision got here as a part of a number of massive bulletins made after the assembly, with probably the most outstanding being the lack of internet hosting rights for Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), whose suspension is about to proceed for now a minimum of. South Africa will host the lads’s Under-19 World Cup for the third time, from January 13 to February 2024.
Another massive decision concerning gender eligibility standards got here in phrases of the participation of transgender in girls’s cricket. ICC talked about that holding the gamers’ security and integrity of ladies’s sport in thoughts, the council determined to ban transgender gamers who underwent male puberty from taking part in in girls’s worldwide matches. ICC stated that it’s going to evaluation its decision in a couple of years however until then, this would be the case.
A stop-clock is about to be carried out in the lads’s sport from December 2023 to April 2024 to maintain tabs on the time and deal with fast completion of the overs. The groups will get two official warnings if they don’t seem to be in a position to begin the following over 60 seconds after the completion of the primary and a five-run penalty can be imposed if it is flagged for the third time by the umpires.
