The Royal Dutch Cricket Affiliation (KNCB) has accepted duty after Netherlands fielded an ineligible participant in a ladies’s T20I towards Italy on Monday.
The board mentioned in a press launch on Wednesday morning: “The ICC has knowledgeable the Royal Dutch Cricket Affiliation (KNCB) relating to an irregularity within the line-up of the Dutch Girls’s Cricket Group within the match between the Netherlands and Italy on Tuesday, Could 28.
“Though no further particulars have been communicated but, the KNCB acknowledges that it was appropriately recognized for this error and can make the required changes within the subsequent match to adjust to the laws.”
The ICC haven’t but publicly commented on the breach of their participant eligibility laws. There are a variety of potential sanctions together with a suspension for the participant and an “adjustment, overturning or modification” of the consequence within the match.
The Dutch board additionally reiterated its assist for its ladies’s staff, saying: “The KNCB is dedicated to creating the Netherlands Girls’s Cricket staff and is bold for the staff to proceed to progress in ICC T20I and ICC 50-over World Cup pathway competitions.”
After their T20I sequence towards Italy, Netherlands are on account of play Papua New Guinea, Scotland and Hong Kong subsequent month. They’re ranked fifteenth on the planet within the ICC’s Girls’s T20I rankings.
