The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has written to the eight Hundred franchises reminding them of their responsibilities around discrimination.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, BBC Sport reported Pakistan cricketers are not being considered by the four Indian-owned sides for next month’s Hundred auction.<\/p>\n
Pakistan players do not play in the Indian Premier League (IPL) amid ongoing political tensions between the two countries and that trend is reflected at IPL-owned franchises around the world.<\/p>\n
ECB chief executive Richard Gould said last year he expected “players from all nations to be selected for all teams” in The Hundred and warned “clear anti-discrimination policies” were in place.<\/p>\n
The ECB retained overall control of The Hundred when it sold stakes in the eight teams last year, though its power has been diluted with the presence of new owners.<\/p>\n
It cannot compel teams to pick players and any accusations of discrimination would have to be backed up by clear evidence.<\/p>\n
The ECB could refer a franchise to the cricket regulator, which can also carry out its own investigations. The governing body could also hand out its own separate punishments.<\/p>\n
Two Pakistan internationals – Mohammad Amir and Imad Wasim – appeared in last year’s tournament, which was the final edition before new investors took control.<\/p>\n
More than 60 Pakistan players were among the 964 to sign up for the auction, which takes place on 11 and 12 March.<\/p>\n
This week, teams will submit a list of players of interest, which will whittle down the overall options to a longlist of less than 200 players who will go to the auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has written to the eight Hundred franchises reminding them of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-440042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440042","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=440042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}