Level 4 Offences
Level 2 Offences
(a) Threatening an umpire or referee.
(a) Showing serious dissent at an umpire's decision by
word or action.
(b) Physical assault of another player, umpire, referee,
official or spectator.
(b) Inappropriate and deliberate physical contact between
players in the course of play.
(c) Any act of violence on the field of play.
(d) Using language or a gesture that seriously offends,
insults, humiliates, intimidates, threatens, disparages or
vilifies another person on the basis of that person's race,
religion or belief, colour, descent, national or ethnic
origin, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation or
background.
Suggested Sanctions
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Player is sent off the field for the remainder of the
match. If he refuses to go, the captain will be warned
that it would constitute a refusal to play.
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Additional five run penalty and report.
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If it is a batsman who committed the offence, he is
retired out; and if nine wickets are down, his team is all
out.
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(c) Using language or gesture that is obscene or of a
serious insulting nature to another player, umpire,
referee, team official or spectator.
Suggested Sanctions
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This process would be wholly umpire led.
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The umpires must agree, and report all incidents in the
post-match report.
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Immediate five penalty runs on first and all subsequent
occasions.
Level 1 Offences
Umpires instruct captain to remove player, or vicecaptain/senior player if it is the captain who is the
offender.
(a) Abuse of cricket ground, equipment or fixtures/fittings.
(b) Showing dissent at an umpire's decision by word or
action.
(c) Using language that is obscene, offensive or insulting
and/or making an obscene gesture.
Note: If the captain is already suspended, then his
nominated deputy on the field is to be used.
(d) Excessiv