{"id":20186,"date":"2025-09-24T00:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/usa-cricket-icc-suspends-membership-with-immediate-effect\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:13:37","slug":"usa-cricket-icc-suspends-membership-with-immediate-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/usa-cricket-icc-suspends-membership-with-immediate-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Cricket: ICC suspends membership with immediate effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also highlighted unspecified &#8220;significant actions that caused reputational damage to cricket in the United States and around the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">USA Cricket was previously placed &#8220;on notice&#8221; at the 2024 ICC annual general meeting (AGM) for &#8220;non-compliance with membership criteria&#8221; and given 12 months to fix the issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following July&#8217;s AGM, the governing body confirmed USA Cricket remained on notice, with the caveat that the ICC board &#8220;reserves the right to take such actions as it deems appropriate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cg5zjdv3d4po\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US have been an associate member of the ICC since 1965 and featured at the 2024 Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup, reaching the Super 8 stage to earn automatic qualification for the 2026 tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">USA Cricket chief executive Johnathan Atkeison told BBC Sport in a statement: &#8220;We were informed by the ICC of the decision to suspend USA Cricket. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cjedk5jl3jvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It also highlighted unspecified &#8220;significant actions that caused reputational damage to cricket in the United States and around the world&#8221;. NGB status is required for a sport to take place at the Olympics, where cricket is due to return after a 128-year absence. USA Cricket was previously placed &#8220;on notice&#8221; at the 2024 ICC annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20188,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20186\/revisions\/20188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}