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There are also ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier events that works as a qualification process for ICC T20 World Cup: until April 2018, only the qualified teams were awarded Twenty20 International status. This was replaced by the ICC Cricket World Cup League Two and Cricket World Cup Challenge League from 2019 onwards.
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Īll Associates were eligible to play in the ICC World Cricket League, a series of international one-day cricket administered by the ICC until 2019.
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( September 2021)Īssociate Members are countries where cricket is firmly established and organised but do not qualify for Full Membership.
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Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. Reference: ICC Men's Rankings, ICC Women's Rankings, 23 October 2021 Associate Members Of these 12 nations, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Ireland played as Associate Members before being elected as Full Members. The West Indies cricket team is a combined team representing 15 countries and territories from the Caribbean, while the English cricket team represents both England and Wales and the Irish cricket team represents all of the island of Ireland.

įull Members are the governing bodies for cricket in a country or a group of associated countries representing a geographical area.Īll Full Members have a right to send a representative team to play official Test matches, have full voting rights at meetings of the ICC, and are automatically qualified to play ODIs and T20Is. There was previously a third level, Affiliate Membership, which was abolished in June 2017, with all existing Affiliate Members becoming Associate Members, and introducing a two-tier hierarchy (Full Members and Associate Members): any new member elected to the ICC would be an Associate Member, with the possibility of promotion to Full Member status based on ongoing performance in international competition.įrom July to October 2019, the ICC suspended Zimbabwe Cricket due to government interference, the first time this had occurred with a Full Member side.

The Membership Committee will consider all future requests for membership – full and associate – against an objective set of criteria. Īs of July 2021, there are 106 ICC members, with 12 Full Members and 94 Associate Members. On 22 June 2017, Ireland and Afghanistan were granted Full Member (and Test) status, bringing the number of Full Members to 12. South Africa was re-elected as a Full Member to the ICC in 1991, with Zimbabwe elected in 1992, and Bangladesh elected in 2000. In 1989, the ICC was again renamed, this time to the International Cricket Council.

In 1981, Sri Lanka became the first Associate Member to be elected a Full Member, returning the number of Test-playing nations to seven. 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: Fiji and the USA became the first Associate Member nations that year. In 1961, South Africa resigned from the Conference due to their leaving the Commonwealth, but they continued to play Test cricket until their international exile in 1970. India, New Zealand and the West Indies joined in 1926, and Pakistan joined in 1953. In the beginning, only countries within the Commonwealth could join. 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. Current ICC Members by Membership status:
