The Bermuda Cricket Board will discuss new changes implemented by the International Cricket Council over the coming months, one that allows for players to be sent off by the umpires for Level 4 offences.

That rule and others will take effect tomorrow during the first Test matches between South Africa and Bangladesh, and Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as the fourth one-day international between India and Australia.

However, it is not quite a done deal in Bermuda, whose season finished last weekend.

“We will discuss it at our post mortem and it also has to be ratified by the members,” Nyon Steede, the BCB cricket chairman, said yesterday.

“We haven’t had any discussions with the clubs as far as any changes coming for next season.”

Steede emphasised that the implementing of a sending-off has been discussed previously by the game’s governing body.

The new rule gives umpires the power to dismiss players for the rest of a match for serious misconduct.

Level 4 offences are the gravest under the ICC Code of Conduct and includes assaulting or threatening behaviour to another player, umpire, match official or spectator on the field of play.

“It is something that we talked about last year and the year before,” Steede said.

“In the last post mortem, I asked for feedback from clubs as it relates to the yellow and red card, so it is nothing that they will be hearing about for the first time.

“We’ve talked about it for the last two years. I asked the clubs to think about it and provide feedback, but we didn’t get a lot of feedback from the clubs. It will probably come up again at the post mortem.

“The only group I got feedback from was the umpires association. The season has just ended, now we have to schedule a date for the post mortem.”

Steede added: “We have a code of conduct to deal with disciplinary issues. I see the benefits for implementation but I also see some of the challenges.

“It is going to come down to feedback from the board, clubs and umpires, the stakeholders, to see if it is something they want to do to benefit cricket.”

The ICC has also introduced new limits to the thickness of bats, with the edge of the bat no thicker than 40 millimetres (1.5 inches) and the overall thickness no more than 67mm (2.6in).

Umpires internationally will be provided with new bat gauges to check that bats meet those guidelines.