West Indies Cricket Board

West Indies Cricket Board WICB
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Sport	Cricket
Area of jurisdiction	National
Formation date	1920s (1920s)
Affiliation	International Cricket Council
Affiliation date	May 31, 1926 (1926-05-31)
Headquarters	St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda
President	West Indies Women's Carol Whilby-Maxwell
Chairman	Julian Hunte
Chief Exec	Ernest Hilaire
Secretary	West Indies Women's Michael Seepersaud
Coach	Ottis Gibson
Replaced	West Indies Cricket Board of Control
(founded)	1926 (1926)
Official website
www.windiescricket.com

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in the West Indies (a sporting confederation of over a dozen mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries and dependencies that formed the British 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 WICB has been a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1926. It operates the West Indies cricket team and West Indies A cricket team, organising Test tours and one-day internationals with other teams. It also organises domestic cricket in West Indies, including the Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup domestic one-day (List A) competition. The WICB has also collaborated with Sir Allen Stanford in the organization of the domestic Stanford 20/20 competition for the Twenty20 format of cricket.

The WICB's membership includes the 6 territorial cricket associations of the various countries and territories which contest the West Indies first-class and limited-overs competition in the Caribbean. Each provides two (2) Directors, in addition to a number of non-member Directors. Two (2) of these associations are themselves multi-national boards representing a number of countries and dependencies. The member associations are:

• Barbados Cricket Association (BCA)
• Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)
• Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA)
• Leeward Islands Cricket Association (LICA); itself composed of:
  • Anguilla Cricket Association
  • Antigua and Barbuda Cricket Association (also just called the Antigua Cricket Association)
  • British Virgin Islands Cricket Association
  • St. Kitts Cricket Association (for the island of St. Kitts alone)
  • Nevis Cricket Association (for the island of Nevis alone)
  • Montserrat Cricket Association
  • St. Maarten Cricket Association (for Dutch Sint Maarten only)
  • United States Virgin Islands Cricket Association
• Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB)
• Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control (WICBC); itself composed of:
  • Dominica Cricket Association
  • Grenada Cricket Association
  • St. Lucia Cricket Association
  • St. Vincent & the Grenadines Cricket Association

Note:

In the future, Saba & Sint Eustatius, Saint Barthélemy and Guadeloupe may affiliate to Leeward Islands Cricket Association; and Martinique, Curaçao, and Bonaire may affiliate to Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control.

The President of WICB is Dr. Julian Hunte (since 29 July 2007, replacing Kenneth Gordon) and Ernest Hilaire is the Chief Executive Officer.

Since 2005, as per an ICC mandate, the West Indies Women's Cricket Federation (WIWCF) has been integrated with the WICB. The President of the WIWCF is Ms. Carol Whilby-Maxwell and the Secretary is Michael Seepersaud.

The WICB is charged with aiding regional development of cricket in the Americas region, under the ICC's development program.

Domestic competition

The West Indies' two major domestic competitions are the Regional Four Day Competition (First-class competition) and the WICB President's Cup (List A one-day competition) and more recently the Caribbean T20 (domestic Twenty20 competition - replacing the Stanford 20/20 competition which was mainly funded and organized by Sir Allen Stanford). Other domestic competitions include the TCL Under-19 West Indies Challenge (three-day first class competition), TCL Under-19 West Indies Challenge Limited Overs Series (one-day limited overs competition), CLICO West Indies Under-15 competition and the WIWCF Women's Senior Tournament. One prominent former competition (not originally organized by the WICB) was the Inter-Colonial Tournament.

In the case of the Carib Beer Cup and the KFC Cup the following first-class domestic teams participate:

• Barbados cricket team
• Guyana cricket team
• Jamaica cricket team
• Leeward Islands cricket team
• Trinidad and Tobago cricket team
• Windward Islands cricket team

For the TCL Under-19 West Indies Challenge (both the first class and limited overs competitions) it is the Under-19 squads for these teams which participate, while for the CLICO Under-15 West Indies tournament it is the Under-15 squads for these teams which pariticipate. In the 2004 TCL Under-19 Challenge the Under-19 Bermuda cricket team and an Under-19 combined Americas cricket team also took part.

In the WIWCF Senior Tournament and the Stanford 20/20 competition the separate components of the Leeward Islands and Windward Islands compete individually. Additionally for the Stanford 20/20 competition teams from outside the West Indies sporting confederation, but within the Caribbean, also compete including the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Cuba (which was barred from competing in 2008 by the U.S. embargo), the Turks and Caicos Islands (both competing in 2008) as well as the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (announced for the 2009 edition of the Stanford 20/20).

See also

• Cricket in the West Indies

External links

• West Indies Cricket Board - Official website
• Official Facebook page of West Indies Cricket team.