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The Imperial Cricket Conference Expands — Test Status for India, WI, NZ, 1926-29

Imperial Cricket Conference / Member countries

1929-05-31

Across three Imperial Cricket Conference meetings between May 1926 and May 1929, Test status was granted in turn to the West Indies (1926), India (1929) and New Zealand (1929) — tripling the number of Test nations in three years and transforming international cricket from a three-country game into a six-country one.

#imperial-cricket-conference#icc#test-status

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BCCI Founded — December 1928, Delhi

BCCI / Indian cricket administration

1928-12-04

On 4 December 1928 representatives of regional cricket associations met in Delhi and constituted the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Within 18 months the BCCI had been admitted to the Imperial Cricket Conference, secured Test status for India, and laid the foundation for what would become the wealthiest cricket administration in the world.

#bcci#india#1928

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Women's Cricket Association Founded — England, October 1926

Women's Cricket Association

1926-10-04

On 4 October 1926, at a women's cricket week at Colwall in the Malvern Hills, 70 players agreed to form the Women's Cricket Association — the first national governing body for women's cricket in any country. Within nine years the WCA had organised the first women's Test, between England and Australia at Brisbane in December 1934.

#womens-cricket-association#england#1926