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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 Board has its headquarters in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda .
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 women's cricket team, nicknamed the Windies, is a combined team of players from various countries in the Caribbean that competes in international women's cricket. The team is organised by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), which represents fifteen countries and ...
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.
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 West Indies Players' Association (WIPA) is the representative body for professional cricketers from the Caribbean nations that constitute the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). As the exclusive representative and bargaining agent of players selected for national and West Indies teams, WIPA is the authorized and collective voice of all West ...
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.