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How many countries play cricket ?

The ICC Global Development team who are based across five continents is tasked with building a bigger, better global game by assisting the 92 Associate Members (AMs) grow and improve the standard of cricket within the different territories.

The team provides global support through a number of services to the Members which can range from assistance on governance, high performance, growth of the game at grassroots level, marketing and communications expertise and how to develop commercial strategies within an organisation.

As of Writing, There are 108 Member countries of the International Cricket Council (ICC). This includes 12 Full Members and 96 Associate Members.

Over the past 20 years the amount of cricket being played in AMs has increased significantly, to the point where there are now over 1.5 million participants currently in the game of cricket, outside the Full Member nations.

Full MembersĀ 

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 a representative team to play official Test matches, have full voting rights at meetings of the ICC, and are automatically qualified to play ODIs and T20Is.

How many countries play cricket ?

The West Indies cricket team is a combined team representing 15 countries and territories from the Caribbean, while the English cricket team represents both England and Wales and the Irish cricket team represents all of the island of Ireland.

Of these 12 nations, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Ireland played as Associate Members before being elected as Full Members.

In April 2021, ICC granted permanent Women’s Test status to all the Full Member nations.

Associate MembersĀ 

Associate Members are countries where cricket is firmly established and organised, but do not qualify for Full Membership. There are 96 Associate Members.

All Associates were eligible to play in the World Cricket League, a series of international one-day cricket administered by the ICC until 2019.

This was replaced by the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 and ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League from 2019 onwards.

How many countries play cricket ?

There are also ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier events that works as a qualification process for ICC Men’s 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 the women’s game, and from 1 January 2019 for the men’s game.

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