ICC consider three new member applications from Africa as Cricket USA remain 'on notice' over governance issues

Three African countries volition use to go Associate members of the International Cricket Council aboriginal this year.

Burkina Faso, Mauritius and Burundi are each readying to taxable the applicable paperwork with the ICC's rank committee earlier December's deadline.

BBC Sport understands the trio had hoped to beryllium considered by the governing assemblage astatine this year's ICC Annual General Meeting.

However, nary of the 3 countries were capable to advancement further with their applications owed to assorted administrative queries raised by the ICC.

At past weekend's AGM successful Singapore the ICC accrued their full fig of members to 110 aft Zambia and Timor-Leste were some fixed Associate status.

Zambia were expelled by the ICC successful 2021 for problems relating to their governance but person present been readmitted.

The ICC said aft their AGM that USA Cricket volition "remain connected notice" amid ongoing rank compliance concerns.

USA Cricket was astatine superior hazard of being suspended by the ICC, which would person resulted successful a chopped to cardinal backing and the United States' men's and women's sides barred from ICC events.

BBC Sport has seen grounds that USA Cricket has addressed 5 of the 8 issues flagged by the ICC relating to governance, concern and administration.

Rather than an outright suspension the ICC person opted to springiness USA Cricket much clip to resoluteness remaining issues with the caveat that the planetary governing body's committee "reserve the close to instrumentality specified actions arsenic it deems appropriate".

One cardinal country Cricket USA are nether unit to code is satisfying the criteria laid retired by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee for National Governing Body (NGB) status.

NGB presumption is required for a athletics to instrumentality spot astatine the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games were cricket is owed to instrumentality aft an lack of 128 years.

"USA Cricket is required to undertake broad governance reforms, including but not constricted to completing escaped and just elections wrong a three-month period," said an ICC statement.

USA Cricket were primitively placed connected announcement astatine the ICC's 2024 AGM successful Sri Lanka for "non-compliance with ICC rank criteria".

Cricket Chile were placed connected announcement astatine the aforesaid clip but person addressed issues relating to its governance operation to the ICC's satisfaction.