{"id":156382,"date":"2025-09-23T22:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/156382\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T22:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:33:07","slug":"usa-cricket-icc-suspends-membership-with-immediate-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/156382\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Cricket: ICC suspends membership with immediate effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

It also highlighted unspecified “significant actions that caused reputational damage to cricket in the United States and around the world”.<\/p>\n

NGB status is required for a sport to take place at the Olympics, where cricket is due to return after a 128-year absence.<\/p>\n

USA Cricket was previously placed “on notice” at the 2024 ICC annual general meeting (AGM) for “non-compliance with membership criteria” and given 12 months to fix the issues.<\/p>\n

Following July’s AGM, the governing body confirmed USA Cricket remained on notice, with the caveat that the ICC board “reserves the right to take such actions as it deems appropriate”.<\/p>\n

At the time, BBC Sport had seen evidence that USA Cricket had addressed five of the eight issues<\/a> flagged last year relating to governance, finance and administration.<\/p>\n

The US have been an associate member of the ICC since 1965 and featured at the 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup, reaching the Super 8 stage to earn automatic qualification for the 2026 tournament.<\/p>\n

USA Cricket chief executive Johnathan Atkeison told BBC Sport in a statement: “We were informed by the ICC of the decision to suspend USA Cricket. <\/p>\n

“Obviously, we are disappointed, but we are awaiting further information from them regarding the conditions for reinstatement so that we can evaluate the path forward.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It also highlighted unspecified “significant actions that caused reputational damage to cricket in the United States and around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-156382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}