Mid-Season Reminder: ECB General Conduct Regulations
The Devon Cricket Foundation would like to remind affiliated clubs that they should now have adopted and be using the ECB's General Conduct Regulations and ECB Anti-Discrimination Code.
ECB General Conduct Regulations
The purpose of the General Conduct Regulations (GCRs) is to set consistent standards of conduct and behaviour and provide a single set of regulations which can be applied consistently at the top end of recreational cricket. This will ensure that disciplinary matters are dealt with in a fair, efficient and consistent manner by cricket organisations.
All of the competitions and cricket played under the auspices of both the ECB and Devon Cricket are subject to the GCRs.
The GCRs are subject to slight amendments on an annual basis, and so please find attached the updated versions of the regulations for 2025.
ECB GENERAL CONDUCT REGULATIONS 2025
ECB Anti-Discrimination Regulations
Anyone who wants to play, watch or be involved at any level of cricket must feel welcome and safe. Cricket has the power to connect people and communities. It is our collective duty to ensure an inclusive environment that allows those connections with our game and its people to thrive.
For 2025, the ECB's Anti-Discrimination Code (ADC) has been reintroduced as the Anti-Discrimination Regulations (ADRs). The reframing of the Code as Regulations reflects the mandatory obligation on all participants not to discriminate.
The ADRs set out the discriminatory behaviour which could lead to disciplinary action being taken against the offender.
There is a link between the ADRs and the GCRs above in that, in relation to the recreational game, breaches of the regulations can be sanctioned through the relevant cricket organisation's disciplinary processes under the General Conduct Regulations.
ECB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION REGULATIONS 2025
Actions for Clubs
We are aware that many clubs have done this already, but if you are an affiliated cricket club, you have agreed to adopt and enforce the ADRs, and comply with the GCRs. Therefore, you need to:
- Adopt the regulations into your own existing rules, and
- Implement the regulations by dealing with breaches through their own disciplinary processes.
