List of International Cricket Council members


The International Cricket Council 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, but they continued to play Test cricket until their international exile in 1970.
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. That year, Fiji and the USA became the first Associate Member nations.
In 1981, Sri Lanka became the first Associate Member to be elected a Full Member, returning the number of Test-playing nations to seven. 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. It would be eight years before the next Full Member, Bangladesh, was elected in 2000. On 22 June 2017, Ireland and Afghanistan were granted Full Member and Test status, bringing the number of Full Members to 12.
As of January 2020, there are 104 ICC members, with 12 Full Members and 92 Associate Members. The Membership Committee will consider all future requests for membership – full and associate – against an objective set of criteria. There was previously a third level, Affiliate Membership, which was removed in June 2017 with all previous Affiliate Members becoming Associate Members. The rule changes introduced a hierarchy, with two categories of membership: Full Members and Associate Members. Any new member elected to the governing body could only be an Associate Member, with the possibility of later being promoted to a Full Member based on ongoing performance in international competition.
In July 2019, the ICC suspended Zimbabwe Cricket, the first time this has been done to a Full Member side. In October 2019, the ICC lifted its suspension on Zimbabwe Cricket.

Full Members

Full Members are the governing bodies for cricket in a country or a group of associated countries representing a geographical area. All Full Members have a right to send one representative team to play official Test matches and have full voting rights at meetings of the ICC. Also, all Full Member nations are automatically qualified to play ODIs and T20Is. The West Indies cricket team does not represent one country, but rather an amalgamation of more than 15 countries and territories from the Caribbean. The English Cricket team represents both England and Wales and the Ireland cricket team represents all of the island of Ireland.
Among these 12 nations, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Ireland have played as associate nations under the ICC before becoming Full Members.

Associate Members

Associate Members are countries where cricket is firmly established and organised but do not qualify for Full Membership. There are 92 Associate Members.
All Associates were eligible to play in the ICC World Cricket League, a series of international one-day cricket administered by the ICC until 2019. This was replaced by the Cricket World Cup League Two and Cricket World Cup Challenge League from 2019 onwards. 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. In April 2018, the ICC announced T20I status for all its members from 1 July 2018 for women's game and from 1 January 2019 for the men's game.
In addition to key administrative requirements of the national governing body, an Associate Member must:
Denotes members that are currently suspended by the ICC.
CountryTeamsGoverning bodyAssociate member sinceRegionRef
Men • Women • U19Argentine Cricket AssociationAmericas
Men • Women • U19Austrian Cricket AssociationEurope
Men • Women • U19Bahamas Cricket AssociationAmericas
Men • Women • U19Bahrain Cricket AssociationAsia
Men • Women • U19Belgian Cricket FederationEurope
Men • Women • U19Belize National Cricket AssociationAmericas
Men • Women • U19Bermuda Cricket BoardAmericas
Men • Women • U19Bhutan Cricket Council BoardAsia
Men • Women • U19Botswana Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Brazilian Cricket AssociationAmericas
Men • Women • U19Bulgaria Cricket FederationEurope
Men • Women • U19Cameroon Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Cricket CanadaAmericas
Men • Women • U19Cayman Islands Cricket AssociationAmericas
Men • Women • U19Chilean Cricket AssociationAmericas
Men • Women • U19Chinese Cricket AssociationAsia
Men • Women • U19Cook Islands Cricket AssociationEast Asia-Pacific
Men • Women • U19Costa Rica Cricket FederationAmericas
Men • Women • U19Croatia Cricket BoardEurope
Men • Women • U19Cyprus Cricket AssociationEurope
Men • Women • U19Czech Republic Cricket UnionEurope
Men • Women • U19Danish Cricket FederationEurope
Men • Women • U19Estonia Cricket AssociationEurope
Men • Women • U19Eswatini Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Falkland Cricket AssociationAmericas
Men • Women • U19Fiji Cricket AssociationEast Asia-Pacific
Men • Women • U19Finnish Cricket AssociationEurope
Men • Women • U19France Cricket AssociationEurope
Men • Women • U19Gambia Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19German Cricket FederationEurope
Men • Women • U19Ghana Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Gibraltar Cricket AssociationEurope
Men • Women • U19Hellenic Cricket FederationEurope
Men • Women • U19Guernsey Cricket BoardEurope
Men • Women • U19Hong Kong Cricket AssociationAsia
Men • Women • U19Hungarian Cricket AssociationEurope
Men • Women • U19Indonesia Cricket FoundationEast Asia-Pacific
Men • Women • U19Islamic Republic of Iran Cricket AssociationAsia
Men • Women • U19Isle of Man Cricket AssociationEurope
Men • Women • U19Israel Cricket AssociationEurope
Men • Women • U19Federazione Cricket ItalianaEurope
Men • Women • U19Japan Cricket AssociationEast Asia-Pacific
Men • Women • U19Jersey Cricket BoardEurope
Men • Women • U19Cricket KenyaAfrica
Men • Women • U19Kuwait Cricket AssociationAsia
Men • Women • U19Lesotho Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Luxembourg Cricket FederationEurope
Men • Women • U19Malawi Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Malaysian Cricket AssociationAsia
Men • Women • U19Cricket Control Board of MaldivesAsia
Men • Women • U19Malian Cricket FederationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Malta Cricket AssociationEurope
Men • Women • U19Mexico Cricket AssociationAmericas
Men • Women • U19Mozambican Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Myanmar Cricket FederationAsia
Men • Women • U19Namibia Cricket BoardAfrica
Men • Women • U19Cricket Association of NepalAsia
Men • Women • U19Royal Dutch Cricket BoardEurope
Men • Women • U19Nigeria Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Norwegian Cricket BoardEurope
Men • Women • U19Oman Cricket BoardAsia
Men • Women • U19Panama Cricket AssociationAmericas
Men • Women • U19Cricket PNGEast Asia-Pacific
Men • Women • U19Peru Cricket AssociationAmericas
Men • Women • U19Philippines Cricket AssociationEast Asia-Pacific
Men • Women • U19Portuguese Cricket FederationEurope
Men • Women • U19Qatar Cricket AssociationAsia
Men • Women • U19Cricket RomaniaEurope
Men • Women • U19Cricket RussiaEurope
Men • Women • U19Rwanda Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19St Helena Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Cricket SamoaEast Asia-Pacific
Men • Women • U19Saudi Cricket CentreAsia
Men • Women • U19Cricket ScotlandEurope
Men • Women • U19Serbian Cricket FederationEurope
Men • Women • U19Seychelles Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Sierra Leone Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Singapore Cricket AssociationAsia
Men • Women • U19Slovenian Cricket AssociationEurope
Men • Women • U19Korea Cricket AssociationEast Asia-Pacific
Men • Women • U19Cricket SpainEurope
Men • Women • U19Suriname Cricket BoardAmericas
Men • Women • U19Swedish Cricket FederationEurope
Men • Women • U19Tanzania Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Cricket Association of ThailandAsia
Men • Women • U19Turkish Cricket BoardEurope
Men • Women • U19Turks and Caicos Cricket AssociationAmericas
Men • Women • U19Uganda Cricket AssociationAfrica
Men • Women • U19Emirates Cricket BoardAsia
Men • Women • U19USA Cricket Americas
Men • Women • U19Vanuatu Cricket AssociationEast Asia-Pacific
Men • Women • U19Zambia Cricket UnionAfrica

Associate Members with ODI status

grants One-Day International status to its Associate Members based on their success in the World Cricket League.
The Associate teams who currently hold ODI status are:
TeamGoverning bodyODI status sinceRegionCurrent ODI Ranking
Namibia Cricket BoardAfrica18
Cricket Association of NepalAsia16
Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket BondEurope12
Oman Cricket BoardAsia13
Cricket PNGEast Asia-Pacific20
Cricket ScotlandEurope15
Emirates Cricket Board Asia17
USA CricketAmericas19

In winning the 2015–17 World Cricket League, Netherlands ensured they would become an ODI team at the end of the 2018 World Cup Qualifier. The three other highest placed associates in this qualifier joined them. In June 2018, Scotland and UAE were added to the main ODI rankings list, with Nepal joining them in January 2019. Netherlands will be added once they have played enough games to gain a meaningful rating.
Four additional teams gained ODI status after the conclusion of the World Cricket League Division Two tournament in April 2019. These teams were Namibia, Oman, Papua New Guinea and USA.

Associate Members with T20I status

In April 2018, the ICC announced T20I status for all its 105 Members from 1 January 2019. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between ICC Members after 1 January 2019 will be full T20I.

Former members

There are five countries who were previously members of the International Cricket Council, but had their memberships revoked due to various reasons.
CountryRegionICC membership period
Africa1999-2019
Americas2002-2013
Asia2002-2015
East Asia-Pacific2000-2014
Europe1985-2012

Regional bodies

Regional bodies aim to organise, promote and develop the game of cricket in their respective ICC regions:
Two further regional bodies were disestablished following the creation of the African Cricket Association: