The continued ICC Annual Convention in Birmingham noticed two Asian international locations, Cambodia and Uzbekistan alongside an African nation Cote D’Ivoire receiving membership standing. The three new international locations had been rewarded with membership standing on Tuesday (July 26) after they happy the ICC membership standards in ‘Participation and home buildings’ of Clause 2.1 (d).
The Participation and home buildings state, that the factors contains “having in place home participation buildings which embody nationwide 50-over match buildings, which comprise at the very least three 3 groups with Checklist A standing, and nationwide 20-over match buildings which comprise at the very least three 3 groups with Checklist A Twenty20 standing”.
Aside from this, the nation must also “have passable junior pathway buildings, have passable girls’s pathway buildings in place, have a sustained and adequate pool of gamers to help robust and constant nationwide stage choice throughout the senior males’s, U19 and girls’s groups; and have robust home participation ranges within the sport and proof of serious development over the earlier eight 8 years”.
ICC’s whole members elevated to 108 together with 96 associates
ICC now has a complete of 108 members in the meanwhile after the inclusion of three international locations with 12 Take a look at-playing nations and 96 Associates. Cambodia and Uzbekistan have taken the variety of Asian international locations to 25 whereas Cote D’Ivoire turns into the twenty first African nation to obtain membership standing.
It has been learnt that the Cricket Federation of Uzbekistan (CFU) has been engaged on a girls’s cricket match that includes 15 groups alongside offering a platform for the U-17 and U-19 gamers. The Cricket Affiliation of Cambodia (CAC) had additionally demonstrated a profitable pathway for ladies’s cricket whereas in addition they have a T20 cricket match in work in direction of the top of the yr.
Cote D’Ivoire cricket federation has the strongest basis among the many three, as they run a nationwide league senior males’s competitors with eight groups. Their involvement within the growth of girls’s cricket has additionally gone to the following stage with the appointment of a feminine Board member to work on the initiatives.
