Lancashire League Handbook 2024

GENERAL CONDUCT REGULATIONS FOR RECREATIONAL CRICKET 2024 07 CONDUCT OBLIGATIONS Captain/Team responsibility 8. If any cricketer commits two or more breaches of Regulation 4 or 5 (Conduct obligations on and around the field of play), which take place during or immediately before or after a match, when playing for the same Club in a season it shall automatically be a separate offence of failing to ensure that the relevant cricketers have complied with their obligations for each of: (a) Any person who captained the team in each of the relevant match(es); and (b) The Club the cricketer was playing for. 8. Clubs shall also be held responsible for disorderly behaviour at any part of the cricket ground on any match day by their members and spectators, unless they can show that: (a) they took adequate steps to ensure that their members and spectators behaved in an orderly fashion; and/or (b) they did not or could not control entry to that part of the cricket ground by the relevant spectators and it would therefore not be fair for them to be held responsible. See Appendix 4, guidance note C for further information. CONDUCT OBLIGATIONS Off-field conduct 10. A Participant shall be in breach of these Regulations if they commit any misconduct as set out below which either relates to their participation in Recreational Cricket and/or is of a sufficiently serious nature to justify disciplinary action being taken in relation to their participation in Recreational Cricket: (a) making an abusive, obscene, offensive or otherwise insulting comment or gesture (in any form) in relation to any other Participant or any other person; (b) any act of violence towards another person; (c) engaging in behaviour that constitutes any form of abuse or harassment, whether physical, sexual, emotional, neglectful or bullying in nature; (d) any breach of the ECB Anti-Discrimination Code; (e) making any adverse public statement or comment in any form and by any means about the performance and/or decision(s) of any match official(s); (f) failing to report to their Club, any Relevant Criminal Offence for which they have been subject to investigation and/or charged with; (g) conducting themselves in a manner, or doing or omitting to do anything which is or may be prejudicial to the best interests of cricket, or which may bring or does bring the game of cricket or the ECB into disrepute; engaging in any corrupt conduct in relation to cricket, in particular: (i) fixing the result, progress, conduct or any aspect of a match; (ii) ensuring the occurrence of a particular incident in a match; (iii) accepting a bribe to conduct the activities described in (a) or (b) above; and/or (iv) receiving a custodial sentence for any of the activities described in (a)-(c) above; and/or