International Cricket Council (ICC), the world governing body of cricket, was established on June 15, 1909 at Lord’s, England. It was then called the ‘Imperial Cricket Conference’ and the membership was confined to Australia, England and South Africa. India joined the conference in 1926, along with New Zealand and West Indies. These were the only six Test-playing nations in the world, at that time. Pakistan was included in the governing body in 1953, as the seventh Full-member and the newest Test-playing nation.
In 1961, South Africa was removed from the conference because of the international outrage against apartheid in that country. Imperial Cricket Conference was renamed the ‘International Cricket Conference’ in 1965. This new governing body expanded the rules of international cricket to other countries, from outside the British Commonwealth.
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