International Cricket Council

Cricket was contested at the Olympics only at Paris 1900. The sport’s governing organization was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) on 15 June 1909, in London, Great Britain, with three founding members (England, Australia, and South Africa), but its membership would be restricted to countries within the British Empire/Commonwealth.

At the July 1965 meeting, the ICC changed its name to International Cricket Conference (ICC), allowing entry to the rest of the world. A new rebrand would come in July 1989 to its current name, International Cricket Council, always keeping the ICC acronym.

The ICC organized its first Men’s Cricket World Cup in 1975, in England. Two years prior, women cricketeers had already had their inaugural World Cup, also in England, then under the auspices of a different organization, the International Women’s Cricket Council (IWCC).

In August 2005, the ICC set up its new headquarters in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In the same year, the ICC and the IWCC would merge to form one unified body to manage and develop cricket worldwide. A member of the Association of the IOC-recognized International Sports Federations (ARISF), as of January 2026, the ICC has 12 Full Members (those that play Test cricket) and 94 Associate Members.

In August 2022, the Los Angeles 2028 Organizing Committee shortlisted nine proposed sports for consideration as optional events for those Olympics, with one of those sports being cricket. At the 141st IOC Session in Mumbai, India, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket as an optional sport for the 2028 Olympics, along with four other sports.

Note: The post of the president was created in 1989 and abolished in 2017.