Cricket West Indies

**Cricket West Indies** (**CWI**) is the governing body for cricket in the West Indies. It was originally formed in the early 1920s as the **West Indies Cricket Board of Control but** changed its name to **West Indies Cricket Board** (**WICB**) in 1996. In November 2015, the Board resolved to rename itself as Cricket West Indies as part of a restructuring exercise that would also see the creation of a separate commercial body. This rebranding formally occurred in May 2017.

CWI 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, organizing 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 Regional Super50 domestic one-day (List A) competition. The CWI has also collaborated with Sir Allen Stanford in the organisation of the domestic Stanford 20/20 competition for the Twenty20 format of cricket. Later they created their own Twenty20 league called Caribbean Twenty20 after disbanding Stanford 20/20. In 2013 they created Caribbean Premier League, a Professional Twenty20 league.

CWI's membership includes the six 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 directors, in addition to a number of non-member directors. Two of these associations are themselves multi-national boards representing a number of countries and dependencies.

The President of CWI is Dr Kishore Shallow, who replaced Ricky Skerrit in 2023. Johnny Grave is its Chief Executive Officer. Since 2005, per an ICC mandate, the **West Indies Women's Cricket Federation** (WIWCF) has been integrated with CWI. The President of the WIWCF is Carol Whilby-Maxwell and the Secretary is Michael Seepersaud. CWI is charged with aiding regional development of cricket in the Americas region, under the ICC's development program.

## Member Associations

* Barbados Cricket Association (BCA)
* Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)
* Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA)
* Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB)
* Leeward Islands Cricket Association (LICA)
	+ Anguila Cricket Association
	+ Antigua and Barbuda Cricket Association
	+ British Virgin Islands Cricket Association
	+ Montserrat Cricket Association
	+ Nevis Cricket Association
	+ Saint Kitts Cricket Association
	+ Saint Maarten Cricket Association
	+ United States Virgin Islands Cricket Association
* Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control (WICBC)
	+ Dominica Cricket Association
	+ Grenada Cricket Association
	+ Saint Lucia Cricket Association
	+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association

## Domestic Competitions

The West Indies' major men's domestic competitions are the Regional Four Day Competition (first-class competition) and the Regional Super50 (List A one-day competition) and more recently the Caribbean Premier League (domestic Twenty20 competition - replacing the Caribbean Twenty20, which in turn replaced the Stanford 20/20 that had been financed and organised by Allen Stanford). Meanwhile, the major women's domestic competitions are the Women's Super50 Cup and the Twenty20 Blaze.

Other CWI domestic competitions include the CWI Rising Stars Under 19, Rising Stars Under 17, Rising Stars Under 15 tournaments, Team Headley-Weekes Tri Series and the WIWCF Women's Senior Tournament.

In the case of the Regional Four Day Competition and the Regional Super50 the following first-class domestic teams participate:

* Barbados
* Guyana
* Jamaica
* Leeward Islands
* Windward Islands
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Combined Campuses and Colleges (Regional Super50)
* West Indies Academy (Regional Super50 and Team Headley-Weekes Tri Series)
* Team Headley (Team Headley-Weekes Tri-Series)
* Team Weekes (Team Headley-Weekes Tri Series)

In 1978 Belize had requested (through the then Belize Cricket Association) in a letter to the WICBC to participate in the Shell Shield and the List A competitions, but the WICBC was unable to entertain their request. 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 participate. 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 women's 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 US 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).

In the Caribbean Premier League there are franchise teams competing, with each franchise currently representing one of the six traditional cricketing territories in the West Indies:

* Royals - representing Barbados
* Amazon Warriors - representing Guyana
* Tallawahs - representing Jamaica
* Patriots - representing Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the rest of the Leeward Islands
* Kings - representing Saint Lucia and the rest of the Windward Islands
* Knight Riders - representing Trinidad and Tobago