The International Cricket Council (ICC) 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. India, New Zealand and the West Indies joined in 1926, and Pakistan joined in 1953. In 1961, South Africa resigned from the Conference 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: Fiji and the USA became the first Associate Member nations that year.
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 the International Cricket Council. South Africa was re-elected as a Full Member to the ICC in 1991, with Zimbabwe elected in 1992, and Bangladesh elected in 2000.
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