• However, with the help of one influential Marylebone Cricket Club member, R. H. Mallett (the manager of the 1906 and 1923 West Indian tours and future manager of the 1930-31 West Indian tour to Australia), representatives of the various territories finally got together and ultimately formed the West Indies Cricket Board of Control. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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. (wikipedia.org)
  • The WICBC's first meeting was held on 17 and 18 June 1927 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad with Harold Austin (the former captain of the 1906 and 1923 West Indian tours of England) serving as the first president. (wikipedia.org)
  • Matches which overlap these boundaries by more than a trivial amount will generally be assigned to the cross-year season, such as the World Twenty20 between March 16 and April 6 2014 can be found in the 2013/14 season. (espncricinfo.com)
  • In 2013 they created Caribbean Premier League, a Professional Twenty20 league. (wikipedia.org)
  • The West Indies Cricket Conference held its first official meeting on 22 January 1927 at the Bridgetown Club in Barbados attended by Mallett and representatives from the Windward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Demerara (British Guiana). (wikipedia.org)
  • At this January meeting the delegates present decided to form the West Indies Cricket Board of Control (WICBC) which would be composed of a president, a secretary and two delegates each from Barbados, Demerara, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago and one delegate each from the Leeward Islands and Windward Islands. (wikipedia.org)
  • The WICBC's first meeting was held on 17 and 18 June 1927 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad with Harold Austin (the former captain of the 1906 and 1923 West Indian tours of England) serving as the first president. (wikipedia.org)
  • Board members were also thenceforth to be appointed by their Cricket Associations although in British Guiana the Georgetown Cricket Club held this responsibility until 1943, and in Trinidad the Queens Park Oval Club until 1981 when their respective Cricket Associations were given recognition. (wikipedia.org)
  • But our personal highlight was the cricket, where Bangladesh well and truly walloped a spirited yet limited Kuwaiti side. (insidethegames.biz)
  • On his return to Belfast he set about forming his own team, along with the Cricket club secretary R.M. Kennedy , he placed an advert in the Newsletter and Northern Whig on September 20 1879 for like minded men to attend training. (cliftonvilleacademy.com)
  • One week later , Ireland's oldest football club , Cliftonville Association Football Club played their first game on the Cricket grounds losing 2-1 to a rugby team called the Qiudnunces. (cliftonvilleacademy.com)
  • CWI has been a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1926. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, with the help of one influential Marylebone Cricket Club member, R. H. Mallett (the manager of the 1906 and 1923 West Indian tours and future manager of the 1930-31 West Indian tour to Australia), representatives of the various territories finally got together and ultimately formed the West Indies Cricket Board of Control. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cliftonville F.C. continued to play at the Cricket club until they obtained their present grounds across the road in 1890. (cliftonvilleacademy.com)