By-Laws
Updated: September 2021
Level One Offences - Guidelines
| Equipment abuse. | Includes actions outside the course of normal cricket actions such as hitting or kicking the wickets and actions which intentionally or negligently result in damage to the advertising boards, boundary markers or any part of, or contents of, any building or structure at the ground. |
| Excessive appealing. | Excessive shall mean repeated appealing when the bowler/fielder knows the batter is not out, with the intention of placing the umpire under pressure. It is not intended to prevent loud or enthusiastic appealing. However, the practice of celebrating or assuming a dismissal before the decision has been given may also come within this rule. |
| Dissent towards an umpire’s decision. | Includes excessive, obvious disappointment with an umpire’s decision or with an umpire making the decision and obvious delay in resuming play or leaving the field. This rule does not prohibit the bowler involved in the decision or a team captain from respectfully asking the umpire to provide an explanation for a decision, or the captain from commenting respectfully on the umpires’ performance in their Captains’ Report |
| Sending a batsman off. | This includes pointing or gestures towards the pavilion |
| Changing the condition of the ball. | Prohibited behaviour includes picking the seam or deliberately throwing the ball into the ground for roughening up the ball and the application of moisture to the ball other than perspiration. |
| Refusing to give name to umpire | Self-explanatory. |