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Cricket West Indies ( CWI) is the governing body for cricket in the West Indies (a sporting confederation of over a dozen mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries and dependencies that once formed the British West Indies ). It was originally formed in the early 1920s as the West Indies Cricket Board of Control, but changed its name to West ...
The West Indies men's 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 ...
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 Board has its headquarters in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda .
The King has hosted the West Indies cricket team ahead of its first Test match against England at Lord’s. Charles, who is head of the Commonwealth, expressed his care and concern for those ...
The history of the West Indian cricket team begins in the 1880s when the first combined West Indian team was formed and toured Canada and the United States. [1] [2] In the 1890s, the first representative sides were selected to play visiting English sides. Administered by the West Indies Cricket Board ("WICB"), [3] and known colloquially as The ...
The West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies cricket team are made up of representatives from 15 mainly English-speaking countries in the Caribbean, which are: Anguilla [ n 1][ n 2] Antigua and Barbuda [ n 2] Barbados. British Virgin Islands [ n 1][ n 2] Dominica [ n 3] Grenada [ n 3] Guyana. Jamaica.
This article describes the history of West Indies cricket from 1946 to 1970. First-class cricket in the West Indies had begun in February 1865 and the federation began playing Test cricket in 1928, but it was not until the 1965–66 West Indian cricket season that a formal domestic competition was founded, this being the Shell Shield which has subsequently evolved into the Carib Beer Cup.
Jamaica (4 titles) The Twenty20 Blaze, officially the Cricket West Indies Women's Twenty20 Blaze and previously known as the West Indies Cricket Board Regional Women's Twenty20 Championship, is a women's Twenty20 cricket competition organised by Cricket West Indies . The competition began in 2012 and currently features six Caribbean teams ...