The England and Wales Cricket Board has launched a newly unbiased regulatory physique, responding to suggestions made by this 12 months’s damning ICEC report.
The Impartial Fee for Fairness in Cricket outlined widespread discrimination within the sport when it revealed wide-ranging findings earlier this 12 months and made 44 recommendations for corrective motion.
Monday’s announcement of the ‘Cricket Regulator’ – with duty for issues of compliance, safeguarding, anti-corruption, anti-doping and anti-discrimination – is the governing physique’s newest response.
The ECB had pledged to have an unbiased physique up and operating earlier than the beginning of the 2024 season and has moved quick to make good on that.
The regulator shall be headed by former police officer Dave Lewis, taking the position of interim director, and he’ll arrange the framework earlier than a successor is appointed subsequent 12 months in open recruitment.
Lewis retired in 2020 as deputy chief constable of Dorset, Devon and Cornwall Police following a 30-year profession.
The Cricket Regulator shall be overseen by one other new physique, the unbiased cricket regulatory board.
England and Wales Cricket Board chief govt Richard Gould
ECB chief govt Richard Gould welcomed the adjustments, stating: “It is important that the game has the best processes in place in order to enforce regulations.
“The ICEC report beneficial that we introduce additional independence to the sport’s regulatory course of and the Cricket Regulator overseen by an unbiased Cricket Regulatory Board will try this.
“The Cricket Regulator is ring-fenced from the ECB, and that separation will ensure that their work is distinct from our work as the game’s promoter.”
ICEC issues damning report
Final June, the Impartial Fee for Fairness in Cricket’s report discovered English cricket was deep-rooted with widespread institutional racism, sexism and class-based discrimination.
The England and Wales Cricket Board issued an unreserved apology for the failings highlighted within the report and to the victims of discrimination in cricket, and mentioned it will work over the following three months on a package deal of reforms primarily based on the 44 recommendations within the report.
The ECB was advised it should decide to being an anti-racist, anti-sexist and anti-classist organisation and encourage all different cricketing organisations to do the identical.
Inside a six-month interval, it should put in place obligatory, specialist, high-quality coaching to help the event of racial literacy amongst its management and essentially the most senior management of the broader sport.
