In a serious coverage resolution, the ICC on Tuesday barred cricketers, who’ve been via any type of male puberty, from competing in worldwide girls’s sport no matter whether or not or not they’ve undergone surgical procedure or gender reassignment therapy. The ICC stated it was taking the choice to guard the integrity of worldwide girls’s sport and the security of gamers. In an announcement, the ICC stated, “The ICC Board approved new gender eligibility regulations for the international game following a nine-month consultation process with the sport’s stakeholders. “The new coverage is predicated on the next rules (so as of precedence), safety of the integrity of the ladies’s sport, security, equity and inclusion, and this implies any Male to Female contributors who’ve been via any type of male puberty is not going to be eligible to take part within the worldwide girls’s sport no matter any surgical procedure or gender reassignment therapy they could have undertaken.” Gender reassignment and treatment have been a hotly-debated topic in world athletics for years.

The ICC, while firming up rules for gender eligibility for international women’s cricket, left the issue at the domestic level in the hands of the member boards.

“The evaluate, which was led by the ICC Medical Advisory Committee chaired by Dr Peter Harcourt, relates solely to gender eligibility for worldwide girls’s cricket, while gender eligibility at home degree is a matter for every particular person Member Board, which can be impacted by native laws. The laws shall be reviewed inside two years,” said the ICC.

ICC Chief Executive Geoff Allardice said the world governing body had arrived at the decision following “intensive consultations”.

“The modifications to the gender eligibility laws resulted from an in depth session course of and is based in science and aligned with the core rules developed through the evaluate.

“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,” stated Allardice.

Meanwhile, the Chief Executives’ Committee (CEC) endorsed a plan to speed up the event of girls match officers, which incorporates equal match-day pay for ICC umpires throughout males’s and ladies’s cricket, and guaranteeing there may be one impartial umpire in each ICC Women’s Championship collection from January subsequent yr.