By Richard Edwards
THE introduction of sendingoffs for bad behaviour could plunge club cricket into chaos.
That’s according to Simon Prodger, the head of the Club Cricket Conference, who fears that the new system will pose a huge problem for clubs in the lower levels who rely almost entirely on their players to officiate.
The new code, which will come into effect in October, will see four levels of punishment of differing severity for offences.
The MCC has made it clear that the rule change has been primarily motivated by the desire to stamp out poor behaviour in amateur rather than p...