The Marylebone Cricket Club, the body in charge of governing the Laws of Cricket, has recommend that players be sent off during matches for “serious disciplinary breaches”. This recommendation was made on Wednesday among other recommendations after a meeting of the committee in Mumbai on December 6 and 7.
“The MCC World Cricket committee recommends that umpires be given the power to eject cricketers from a game for serious disciplinary breaches,” said the release. “The World Cricket committee believes that the game must now include a mechanism to deal with the worst disciplinary offences during the match, and not subsequent to it as is presently the case. If approved, the ability to send a player off would therefore come into effect at all levels of the game from October 1, 2017.”
The committee also recommended that size of a bat’s edges and depths should be limited to 40 mm and 67 mm, respectively.
However, the committee was split on introducing four-day Test matches and also said they would not be making any recommendations to change the current ball-tampering laws.
The full list of recommendations made by the committee were:
- Bat size edges and depths set to be limited at 40 mm and 67 mm respectively
- Sending off in cricket close to inclusion in Laws of Cricket for first time
- Ball tampering Law will not be changed
- Committee split on possibility of introducing four-day Test Matches
- ICC urged to continue to work towards introducing a World Test Championship and presenting the case for cricket at the Olympic Games
- Law on ball striking a fielder’s worn helmet to be changed
