Cricket

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International Cricket Council

• The International Cricket Council is the world governing body of cricket.

• It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from Australia, England and South Africa.

• It was renamed as the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1987.

About ICC

The ICC has 105 member nations currently: 12 Full Members that play Test matches, and 94 Associate Members. The ICC is responsible for the organisation and governance of cricket's major international tournaments, most notably the Cricket World Cup and the T20 World Cup. It also appoints the umpires and referees that officiate at all sanctioned Test matches, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals. It promulgates the ICC Code of Conduct, which sets professional standards of discipline for international cricket, and also co-ordinates action against corruption and match-fixing through its Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU).

The ICC does not control bilateral fixtures between member countries (which include all Test matches), and neither does it govern domestic cricket within member countries. It does not make or alter the laws of the game, which have remained under the governance of the Marylebone Cricket Club since 1788.

The first Chairman of The ICC was elected on 26 June 2014, Narayanaswami Srinivasan, the former president of BCCI, It has been claimed that the 2014 changes have handed control to the so-called 'Big Three' nations of England, India and Australia. The last ICC president was Zaheer Abbas, who was appointed in June 2015 following the resignation of Mustafa Kamal in April 2015. When the post of ICC president was abolished in April 2016, Shashank Manohar, who replaced Srinivasan in October 2015, became the first independent elected chairman of the ICC.