The England and Wales Cricket Board has launched a newly impartial regulatory physique, responding to suggestions made by this yr’s damning ICEC report.
The Unbiased Fee for Fairness in Cricket outlined widespread discrimination within the sport when it printed wide-ranging findings earlier this yr and made 44 solutions 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 impartial physique up and operating earlier than the beginning of the 2024 season and has moved quick to make good on that.
The regulator will likely 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 yr 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 will likely be overseen by one other new physique, the impartial cricket regulatory board.
ECB chief government Richard Gould welcomed the modifications, 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 impartial Cricket Regulatory Board will do 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 points damning report
Final June, the Unbiased 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 suggestions throughout the report.
The ECB was informed 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 necessary, specialist, high-quality coaching to help the event of racial literacy amongst its management and probably the most senior management of the broader sport.