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ciation, the Guyana Cricket Board, the Jamaica Cricket
Association, the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board,
the Leeward Islands Cricket Association (comprised
of the Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Is-
lands, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Maarten, and
United States Virgin Islands, Associations) and the
Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control (comprised
of the Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent,
Associations).
“We are responsible for the management, develop-
ment, and promotion of cricket in the region,” says
Michael Muirhead, the former CEO of the WICB. (A
professional management consultant, Muirhead, who
stepped down this past month, has run the organiza-
tion, along with a Board of Directors and a staff of 50
full-time employees and up to 30 part-time contract
workers, since 2012.) “And we have a responsibility to
the global governing body of cricket, the International
Cricket Council,” he adds. “We are one of ten, full-
member nations. Cricket is played across the world,
and there are various cricket associations in various
countries that fall under the jurisdiction of the Inter-
national Cricket Council. In all, there are about 105
countries that are either associates, affiliates, or full
members.”
Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world;
with two to three billion fans, it ranks just behind
soccer. The WICB, like the other ICC members, pro-
duce major competitive events that draw teams from
AT A GLANCE
WHO:
The West Indies Cricket Board
WHAT:
The governing body for professional and
amateur cricket in the West Indies
WHERE:
St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda
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