Cricket In The West Indies
The West Indies cricket is a sporting confederation of over a dozen mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries and dependencies that formed the British West Indies.
Cricket is traditionally the main sport in the West Indies (though others sports such as football and basketball have challenged its dominance from around the 1990s onwards). The British West Indies hosted the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
The West Indies consists of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Maarten, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago and the United States Virgin Islands.
Cricket is also played in other Caribbean territories such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands who are associate members of the International Cricket Council whilst the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Belize, Suriname and Cuba are affiliate members.
Read more about Cricket In The West Indies: Governing Body, Domestic Competition, Representative Team
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