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The Windward Islands Cricket Board is the ruling body for
cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
in the following West Indian islands:
Grenada Grenada ( ; Grenadian Creole French: ) is an island country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself, two smaller islands, Carriacou and Pe ...
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Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines () is an island country in the Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea wh ...
and
Dominica Dominica ( or ; Kalinago: ; french: Dominique; Dominican Creole French: ), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of the island. It is geographically ...
. Although Dominica is geographically part of the
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, as it was part of the Windward Islands colony from 1940 until its independence, its cricket federation remains a part of the
Windward Islands french: Îles du Vent , image_name = , image_caption = ''Political'' Windward Islands. Clockwise: Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada. , image_alt = , locator_map = , location = Caribbean SeaNorth ...
. The Secretariat of WICB is based in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, while the franchise (Windwards Volcanoes) is based in Grenada. Dr. Kishore Shallow was elected as president in 2019, replacing Emmanuel Nathan.


Windward Islands Constituent Associations

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Dominica Cricket Association Dominica ( or ; Kalinago: ; french: Dominique; Dominican Creole French: ), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of the island. It is geographically ...
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Grenada Cricket Association Grenada ( ; Grenadian Creole French: ) is an island country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself, two smaller islands, Carriacou and Pe ...
* St. Lucia Cricket Association * St. Vincent & the Grenadines Cricket Association


Principals of Windward Islands Cricket Board


WICB Presidents

*Julian Hunte *Lennox John *Emmanual Nanthan *Dr. Kishore Shallow: 2019–present


See also

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Windward Islands cricket team The Windward Islands cricket team is a cricket team representing the member countries of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control. The team plays in the West Indies Professional Cricket League (including the NAGICO Regional Super50) under ...


References

{{reflist Cricket in Dominica Cricket in Grenada Cricket in Saint Lucia Cricket in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket in the Windward Islands Sports governing bodies in Saint Lucia Cricket administration in the West Indies