Lancashire League Handbook 2025

LCL Handbook 2025 235 7 8. If an umpire considers that there has been an On-Field Breach, they must (i) make reasonable efforts to inform the individual (or their captain or a Club Official) before they leave the ground and (ii) make a Disciplinary Report to the Disciplinary Officer of the Relevant Disciplinary Body. This Disciplinary Report will be made irrespective of any action the umpire may have taken on the field of play. Other individuals can also report On-Field Breaches either to the umpire, in which case the umpire will make a Disciplinary Report, or to the Disciplinary Officer directly by wayofWrittenComplaint (forexample, iftheOn-FieldBreachrelatestoamatchofficial). Ifthere is no umpire appointed to a particular match, individuals can report On-Field Breaches to a captain or Club Official who can then make a Disciplinary Report on their behalf. See Appendix 4, guidance note 5 for further information. Captain/Team responsibility 9. If any cricketer commits two or more breaches of Regulation 5or 6 ( 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 will 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 all of the relevant match(es); and (b) the Club the cricketer was playing for. 10. Clubs will 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. Off-field conduct 11. A Participant will be in breach of these Regulations if they commit any misconduct as set out below which either relates to their participation in Relevant Recreational Cricket and/or is of a sufficiently serious nature to justify disciplinary action being taken in relation to their participation in Relevant 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’s Anti-Discrimination Regulations; (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 interests of cricket, or which may bring or does bring the game of cricketor theECB intodisrepute;