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Pre-1999 Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board and Team Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board and Team used until mid-2017. From the 1880s onwards there had been no central body to co-ordinate the Inter-Colonial Tournaments and matches, select composite West Indian XIs for tours and against touring sides and to organise the West Indian tours of England, Canada and the United States.
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in the West Indies. It was originally formed in the early 1920s as the West Indies Cricket Board of Control (and is still sometimes referred by that name), but changed its name in 1996.
The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed The Windies, [10] is a men's cricket team representing the West Indies—a group of mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region—and administered by Cricket West Indies. The players on this composite team are selected from a chain of fifteen Caribbean nation-states and ...
This format and name remained until 1981–82, when the Combined Islands were split up into the Leeward and Windward Islands by the West Indies Cricket Board. This meant that the season was lengthened to five games per side.
Twenty20 domestic cricket first appeared in an organised manner in the West Indies in 2006 with the privately organised Stanford 20/20.The second and last edition of the Stanford competition was officially made part of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) calendar in 2008, after which the tournament ended when its sponsor Allen Stanford was charged with fraud and arrested in June 2009.
However, the region began to form a more cohesive cricketing identity, setting the stage for the emergence of a full-fledged West Indies cricket team. [16] In 1923, the West Indies Cricket Board of Control (WICBC) was established, formalising cricket administration across the Caribbean islands. [15]
Whycliffe Cameron (born 8 April 1971) is the former president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Inc. He was elected the 18th president of the WICB in March 2013. He was elected the 18th president of the WICB in March 2013.
The centre is a collaboration between the University of the West Indies and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), [1] and had been planned since at least 2008, when it was announced in a statement from the WICB. [2] The initial intake comprised fifteen West Indian players between the ages of 19 and 27. [3]