Members of the International Cricket Council
The
International Cricket Council
(ICC) was founded at
Lord's
on 15 June 1909 as the Imperial Cricket Conference,
[1]
with
Australia
,
England
, and
South Africa
as its founding members.
In the beginning, only countries within the
Commonwealth
could join.
[2]
India
,
New Zealand
and the
West Indies
joined in 1926, and
Pakistan
joined in 1953 after the partition of India.
[3]
In 1961,
South Africa
resigned from the Conference due to their leaving the Commonwealth,
[2]
but they continued to play Test cricket until their international exile in 1970.
[4]
The Imperial Cricket Conference was renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, with new rules permitting countries from outside the Commonwealth to be elected into the governing body for the first time:
Fiji
and the
USA
became the first associate member nations that year.
[2]
In 1981,
Sri Lanka
became the first associate member to be elected a full member, returning the number of Test-playing nations to seven. In 1989, the ICC was again renamed, this time to the International Cricket Council.
[2]
South Africa was re-elected as a full member of the ICC in 1991, with
Zimbabwe
elected in 1992,
[3]
and
Bangladesh
elected in 2000.
[3]
On 22 June 2017,
Ireland
and
Afghanistan
were granted full member (and Test) status, bringing the number of full members to 12.
[5]
As of November 2023, there are 108 ICC members, with 12 full members and 96 associate members.
[6]
The membership committee will consider all future requests for membership ? full and associate ? against an objective set of criteria. There was previously a third level, affiliate membership, which was abolished in June 2017, with all existing affiliate members becoming associate members,
[7]
and introducing a two-tier
hierarchy
(full members and associate members): any new member elected to the ICC would be an associate member, with the possibility of promotion to full member status based on ongoing performance in international competition.
From July to October 2019, the ICC suspended
Zimbabwe Cricket
due to government interference, the first time this had occurred with a full member side.
[8]
[9]
[10]
From November 2023 to January 2024, the ICC suspended Sri Lanka Cricket due to government interference in the board.
[11]
Full members
[
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]
Full members are the governing bodies for cricket in a country or a group of associated countries representing a geographical area.
All full members have a right to send a representative team to play official Test matches, have full voting rights at meetings of the ICC, and are automatically qualified to play
ODIs
and
T20Is
.
[2]
The West Indies cricket team is a combined team representing 15 countries and territories from the
Caribbean
, while the English cricket team represents both
England and Wales
and the Irish cricket team represents
all of the island of Ireland
.
Of these 12 nations, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Ireland played as associate members before being elected as full members.
In April 2021, ICC granted permanent
Women's Test
status to all the full member nations.
[12]
Reference:
ICC Men's Rankings
,
ICC Women's Rankings
, 23 October 2021
Associate members
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]
Associate members are countries where cricket is firmly established and organised, but do not qualify for full membership.
[2]
There are 96 associate members.
[13]
All associates were eligible to play in the
World Cricket League
, a series of international one-day cricket administered by the ICC until 2019.
[14]
This was replaced by the
ICC Cricket World Cup League 2
and
ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League
from 2019 onwards.
[15]
There are also
ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier
events that works as a qualification process for
ICC Men's T20 World Cup
: until April 2018, only the qualified teams were awarded
Twenty20 International status
.
[16]
In April 2018, the ICC announced T20I status for all its members from 1 July 2018 for the women's game, and from 1 January 2019 for the men's game.
[17]
†Denotes members that are currently suspended by the ICC.
- ^
Switzerland were admitted in 1985, but were expelled in 2012,
[91]
[92]
before being readmitted in July 2021.
[64]
- ^
The USA were admitted as an associate member in 1965 under the governance of the
United States of America Cricket Association
, which was expelled in September 2017. USA Cricket was admitted in January 2019.
Associate members with ODI status
[
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]
The
ICC
granted men's
One Day International
status to its associate members based on their success in the
World Cricket League
; the World Cricket League was replaced in 2019 and ODI status now goes exclusively to all teams in the newly created
ICC Cricket World Cup Super League
and
ICC Cricket World Cup League 2
.
[100]
The Associate teams who currently hold men's ODI status are:
Netherlands
ensured they would regain ODI status after the completion of the
2018 World Cup Qualifier
, by winning the
2015?2017 World Cricket League
. The next three highest placed associates in the qualifier (UAE, Scotland and Nepal) also gained ODI status. In June 2018, Scotland and UAE were added to the main ODI rankings list, with Nepal joining them in January 2019.
[103]
Netherlands were also added afterwards after playing enough games to gain a ranking.
Four additional teams gained ODI status after the conclusion of the
World Cricket League Division Two
tournament in April 2019.
[100]
These teams were
Namibia
,
Oman
,
Papua New Guinea
and
USA
.
[100]
In April 2021, ICC granted permanent
Women's One Day International
status to all the full-member teams.
[104]
On 25 May 2022, five Associate teams were granted Women's ODI status by the International Cricket Council.
[105]
Associate members with T20I status
[
edit
]
In April 2018, the ICC announced T20I status for all members from 1 January 2019. Therefore, all
Twenty20
matches played between ICC members since 1 January 2019 have been eligible for full T20I status.
[106]
[17]
Former members
[
edit
]
Expelled members
[
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]
There are six countries who were associate and/or affiliate members of the International Cricket Council, but were expelled from the ICC:
Dissolved members
[
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]
There were two combined teams who were associate members of the International Cricket Council, but were subsequently dissolved.
-
East Africa
(a combined team representing Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia): admitted as an associate member in 1966, the team played at the
inaugural Cricket World Cup in 1975
, with Kenya becoming an associate member in its own right in 1981.
- In 1989, East Africa was succeeded by a combined team from
East and Central Africa
(representing Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi), which remained an associate member, with Uganda and Tanzania becoming associate members in their own right in 1998 and 2001. In 2003, the ICC, Zambia and Malawi mutually agreed to dissolve the team, with Zambia becoming an associate member (expelled in 2021) and Malawi becoming an affiliate member (associate member from 2017).
-
West Africa
(representing Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone): admitted as an associate member in 1976. In 2003, the ICC and the four constituent countries mutually agreed to dissolve the team, with Nigeria becoming an associate member, and Gambia, Ghana and Sierra Leone becoming affiliate members (associate members from 2017).
Regional bodies
[
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]
Regional bodies aim to organise, promote and develop the game of cricket in their respective ICC regions.
These are the current bodies:
The regional body for Europe was disestablished following which ICC took over operations:
Two further regional bodies were dissolved following the creation of the African Cricket Association:
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See also
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1
For
Guyana
,
Jamaica
,
Trinidad and Tobago
,
Barbados
,
Antigua and Barbuda
,
Anguilla
,
Dominica
,
Grenada
,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
,
Montserrat
,
Nevis
,
Saint Kitts
,
Saint Lucia
,
Sint Maarten
, the
British Virgin Islands
and the
United States Virgin Islands
the national team is the West Indies.
2
For
England and Wales
, the national team is England.
3
For the
Republic of Ireland
and
Northern Ireland
, the national team is Ireland.
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