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Warning of imaginable "honey traps, ineligible liability and information risks", the BCCI has banned unauthorised visitors from the edifice rooms of players, enactment unit and squad officials successful the IPL aft incidents of "misconduct and protocol violations" were flagged by the Board's Anti-Corruption Unit.
In an elaborate advisory for the 10 IPL franchises, the BCCI has said that written authorisation from the squad managers would beryllium a indispensable for guests to person entree to the players' and officials' rooms.
"The advisory has been issued successful airy of definite incidents observed during ongoing play and is intended to reenforce the standards of professionalism, discipline, information consciousness and protocol compliance expected from each stakeholders associated with IPL," BCCI caput Devajit Saikia said successful a connection to the CEOs of the franchises, a transcript of which is successful possession of PTI.
"It has travel to the attraction of the BCCI that definite incidents of misconduct and protocol usurpation person occurred involving players, enactment unit and squad officials during the people of the existent IPL season.
"These incidents if near unaddressed, transportation the imaginable to origin important reputational harm to the tournament, the franchise acrophobic and the BCCI arsenic the Governing Body. They whitethorn further exposure individuals and franchises to ineligible liability and information risks of superior nature," helium went connected to pass successful the preamble of the document.
The Board noted that definite players and enactment unit members person permitted unauthorised persons to entree their edifice rooms without the cognition oregon support of the acrophobic Team Manager.
"In a fig of instances, Team Manager was wholly unaware of the beingness of specified visitors. The signifier is strictly prohibited with contiguous effect," the notification ordered.
All players and enactment unit person present been fixed a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) that needs to beryllium followed for the duration of the tournament.
"No impermanent shall beryllium escorted to backstage edifice rooms unless Team Manager has specifically authorised the aforesaid successful writing. The BCCI draws attraction to each franchises to the good documented risks of targeted compromise and chromatic trapping that pervade precocious illustration sporting environments.
"The anticipation of incidents giving emergence to superior ineligible allegations, including those nether applicable Indian laws connected intersexual misconduct cannot beryllium discounted. IPL franchises indispensable stay vigilant and proactive successful mitigating specified risks astatine each times," the Board stated.
It besides banned players and enactment unit from leaving squad hotels astatine "irregular hours" without informing their designated Security Liaison Officer (SLO) and Team Integrity Officer (TIO).
Saikia said periodic checks mightiness beryllium conducted by the BCCI oregon the IPL Operations Team to guarantee compliance with the guidelines and breaches would invitation sanctions ranging from fiscal penalties to suspension oregon disqualification of the acrophobic player, enactment unit and squad official.
Owners barred from subordinate enactment during games
The papers besides highlighted breaches by unspecified squad owners, alleging that they person not maintained the sanctity of Players' And Match Officials Access (PMOA).
"Specifically instances person been observed of IPL franchises owners attempting to pass with, approach, hug, oregon different physically interact with players during unrecorded lucifer situations.
"Such behaviour nevertheless well-intentioned, straight contravenes established protocol and whitethorn represent interference with squad dynamics and lucifer proceedings," the Board asserted.
The BCCI has truthful banned owners from interacting with the players portion a lucifer is on.
"IPL franchise owners and their representatives are strictly prohibited from communicating with oregon physically accessing players oregon squad officials successful the dugout, dressing country oregon playing country during people of the match, but done designated and approved channels.
"All franchise proprietor level entree to restricted zones indispensable strictly conform to the PMOA Protocol arsenic communicated by the IPL operations divisions. Any deviation shall beryllium treated arsenic superior violation.”
Prohibition of Vaping
Rajasthan Royals skipper Riyan Parag was seen vaping successful the dressing country balcony during a match, causing a uproar. Without naming Riyan, Saikia said indulging successful a banned enactment arsenic per Indian instrumentality volition not beryllium tolerated by the Board. "It is pertinent to enactment that vapes and physics cigarettes is prohibited nether applicable Indian Law.
"Any idiosyncratic recovered engaging successful specified behaviour wrong tourney premises is not lone violating BCCI and IPL regulations but whitethorn besides beryllium committing a cognisable offence nether applicable statutory framework," helium said.
"Accordingly the usage of vapes, e-cigarettes, and each prohibited substances is strictly banned wrong each IPL tourney venues, including dressing rooms, dugouts, squad hotels and signifier facilities."
