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The Cricket West Indies (CWI) 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.
After the West Indies were awarded Test status in 1928, the number of games played by Jamaica increased. During World War II , there was no official Inter-Colonial tournament, but matches were still played between the three teams who had competed for it, and this continued after the war, but now also including Jamaica.
Twenty20 domestic cricket first appeared in an organised manner in the West Indies in 2006 with the privately organised Stanford 20/20.The second and last edition of the Stanford competition was officially made part of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) calendar in 2008, after which the tournament ended when its sponsor Allen Stanford was charged with fraud and arrested in June 2009.
West Indies vs Bangladesh LIVE: Cricket score and updates from Bangladesh in West Indies 2024. Luke Baker. November 29, 2024 at 10:00 AM. A general view of a cricket ball (Getty Images)
The 2024–25 West Indies Championship will be the 57th edition of the Regional Four Day Competition, the domestic first-class cricket competition played by the countries in the West Indies. The tournament will begin on 29 January and end on 12 April 2025. [1] [2] Guyana Harpy Eagles are the defending champions. [3]
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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 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 and ...