56 November 2016 - Business View Caribbean
The West Indies Cricket Board
Promoting the world’s second most popular sport
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is the governing
body for professional and amateur cricket in the West
Indies, a confederation of over a dozen mainly English-
speaking Caribbean countries and dependencies that
form the British West Indies. The WICB was originally
formed in the early 1920’s and this year, it celebrates
its 90th year of recognition by the International Cricket
Council (ICC), as the administrator of the sport in the
region.
“We existed informally before then,” says Verlyn Faus-
tin, the WICB’s Corporate Secretary. “As persons be-
gan to play cricket within the various countries in the
Caribbean, they wanted to organize games amongst
themselves and somebody was needed to administer
the games, plan the tournaments, and so on. So, the
West Indies Cricket Board was formed. We’re an incor-
porated company. Our headquarters is in Antigua, and
we service all of the cricket-playing countries of the
region.”
WICB members include: The Barbados Cricket Asso-
