Cricket's governing body will also discuss this issue in a meeting in February.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has asked a medical committee to examine whether the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) should have held the recent India-Sri Lanka Test match in New Delhi. Cricket's governing body will also discuss this issue in a meeting in February.
"The ICC has noted the conditions in which the Delhi Test was played and has already requested the issue is considered by the medical committee for guidance should the situation arise in future," said an ICC statement.
India wrapped up the three-match Test series at the Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi on Wednesday, but not before intense drama on the field where players from both teams were seen vomiting because of high pollution levels. The Lankan players even wore masks on the field for most of the match.
At its peak, concentrations of the smallest and most harmful pollution particles were at 18 times the World Health Organization's safe limit, according to the US embassy website.
The BCCI has already said New Delhi could be dropped from hosting internationals during its peak pollution season in November and December.
The ICC medical committee can make recommendations to the world body's executive on "any medical issues affecting international cricket". It can also "evaluate" medical plans of countries hosting ICC sanctioned events.
As a result, there could be a slight alteration in the clauses of the Playing Conditions by the ICC, where the health hazard of players related to severe air pollution can be incorporated.
"In ICC's 'Playing Conditions', there is a separate sub- clause for weather. Since this is a first instance in the game's 140-year history that a Test match has been halted for 26 minutes due to air-pollution. The situation as we all know is very unique in nature," a BCCI official said on conditions of anonymity.
Since the Playing Conditions never had any specific mention of air-pollution, it is expected that permissible AQI (Air Quality Index) limit to play competitive cricket will be inserted.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA)'s president Dr KK Aggarwal in a letter to BCCI has also urged the cricket's governing body to include a clause on atmospheric pollution. Dr Aggarwal on his part also provided data as to how it was a serious health issue for players that the match was not stopped.
"The safe levels of atmospheric particulate matter, according to World Health Organisation air-quality guidelines, are 20g/cu mm (annual mean) for PM10 and 10g/cu mm (annual mean) for PM2.5," he said.
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