Lancashire League Handbook 2025

LCL Handbook 2025 60 intimidate, threaten, disparage or vilify another person on the basis that person’s religion, sexual orientation, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin. The conduct listed in Level 1 to Level 4 above cannot be considered to be exhaustive. Additional Notes 1. Any suspension imposed upon a player will be effective to prevent that player playing any cricket under the auspices of the ECB during the period of suspension. 2. Any suspension imposed by a Club on behalf of the League or by the Disciplinary Committee will be expressed in terms of a number of League or Cup competition matches but the player will not be permitted to play any other match under the auspices of the ECB (including T/20 matches) during the period required for the player to complete the suspension imposed. 3. Any suspension imposed upon a player will only be served when the player misses a game commenced by their Club. A game will only be classed as commenced once a ball has been bowled. SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY The Lancashire Cricket League fully understands and acknowledges any member club’s player’s or official’s right to pass reasonable and considered comment on a specific match or on the sport in general. The League does, however, expect all such social media postings to be constructive and relevant given the potentially unrestricted audience of such sites as Facebook and Twitter. The following conditions apply to any social media posting which relates either directly or indirectly to the Lancashire Cricket League. These conditions also apply to any posting that might reasonably be regarded as reflecting on the League in any way. No social media posting may be made by a member club’s player or official which: 1. Contains any threatening, abusive, insulting or indecent language. 2. Discriminates on any grounds of race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, faith, sexual orientation, social class or disability. 3. Is detrimental to the interests of The Lancashire Cricket League or to the game of cricket in general, or which bringsThe Lancashire Cricket League or the game of cricket into disrepute. 4. The individual could reasonably be expected to know would implicate a third party in any disciplinary or legal hearings. This may include, but is not restricted to, the copying and redistribution of any