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The International Cricket Council (ICC) was founded at Lord's on 15 June 1909 as the Imperial Cricket Conference, with Australia, England, and South Africa as its founding members. In the beginning, only countries within the commonwealth could join. These members were then joined by India, New Zealand, and the West Indies in 1926 and later by Pakistan in 1953. In 1961, South Africa resigned due to their leaving the Commonwealth. 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. Any new member elected to the governing body could only be an Associate Member with the possibility of being promoted to a Full Member. The first Associates were Fiji and the USA. In 1989, the ICC was again renamed, this time to International Cricket Council. South Africa was reelected as a Full Member to the ICC in 1991 and Zimbabwe was elected in 1992. The most recent new Full Member is Bangladesh, which was elected in 2000. The ICC currently has 105 members.
Contents
- ICC Members
- Full members
- Associate members
- Associate Members with ODI status
- Associate Members with T20I status
- Affiliate members
- References
Membership is a hierarchy and there are three categories of membership: Full Members, Associate Members, and Affiliate Members. In the highest category, there are 10 Full Members. 2nd category has 39 Associate Members and lowest category has 56 Affiliate Members. As of Feb 23, 2017 there are plans to only have 2 memberships comprising of Full and Associate members with associate members having the ability to become full members depending on performance and other criteria. There is still no clear decision on what will happen to Affiliate membership; either they will be removed from ICC completely or be given a chance to apply as associate member if they meet the criteria for that membership.
ICC Members
In the list below, suspended members are marked †.
Full members
Full Members are the governing bodies for cricket in a country or associated countries. Full Members may also represent a geographical area. All Full Members have a right to send one representative team to play official Test matches. Also, all Full Member nations are automatically qualified to play ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals. West Indies cricket team does not represent one country, but rather an amalgamation of more than 20 countries and territories from the Caribbean. The English Cricket team represents both England and Wales. Here is the official ranking site.
Associate members
Associate Members are countries where cricket is firmly established and organised but do not qualify for Full Membership. There are 39 Associate Members, Saudi Arabia being the most recently promoted.
All Associates are eligible to play in the ICC World Cricket League, a series of international one-day cricket administered by the ICC. There is also an ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier that works as a qualification process for ICC World Twenty20 that occurred every two years (until 2016, the next T20 World Cup is in 2016). The qualified teams are awarded Twenty20 International status.
An associate member must maintain the following criteria along with other administration requirements of the national governing body:
In the list below, suspended members are marked †.
Associate Members with ODI status
ICC grants One Day International status to its associate and affiliate members based on their success in the World Cricket League. The top six teams are awarded One Day International status, which allows associate and affiliate teams to be eligible to play the full members and play-official ODI cricket.
The associate teams who currently hold ODI status are:
Associate Members with T20I status
Associates that have Twenty20 International status by virtue of having ODI status are Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Ireland, Scotland, Papua New Guinea and UAE. Netherlands maintained Twenty20 International status it held previously by qualifying for 2016 ICC World Twenty20.ICC also awarded Twenty20 International status to Oman as it qualified for 2016 ICC World Twenty20.
The associate teams who currently hold T20I status are:
Affiliate members
Affiliate members are countries where the ICC recognises that cricket is played according to the Laws of Cricket. There are 56 Affiliate Members. An affiliate member must maintain the following criteria along with other administration requirements of the national governing body:
In order for an affiliate member to be considered for becoming to an associate member the national governing body must demonstrate that it has met the criteria for associate membership and must have also met the following playing standards within the last three years:
In the list below, suspended members are marked †.'