List of members of the Board of Control for Cricket in India

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Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), is the governing body of cricket in India, It is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the international governing body of cricket. BCCI is made up of full and associate member associations. These member associations are grouped into zones, depending on their location in India, North zone, Central zone, East zone, West zone and South zone.

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Most of the member associations govern cricket in their respective states while some govern the sport in their regions such as Mumbai, historic areas of Princely state such Hyderabad State, some govern it in Union territories such as Jammu and Kashmir, Pondicherry etc., government institutions such as Army, Services and Universities.

Affiliated Members

Membership of the Board of Control for Cricket in India is made up of Full Members and Associate Members. [1] [2]

Full Members

The majority of full members are state cricket associations. Each state is permitted one representative, except for Gujarat and Maharashtra, which have three. There are additional representatives from Indian Railways, Services and Universities. Changes recommended by the Lodha Committee included restricting full membership to state associations and limiting states to one full member, with the others becoming associate members, [3] but these have not been fully adopted by the BCCI, with existing members retaining full membership except for Cricket Club of India (Mumbai) and National Cricket Club (Kolkata). [4]

NameRepresentsZone
Andhra Cricket Association Andhra Pradesh South
Arunachal Cricket Association Arunachal Pradesh East
Assam Cricket Association Assam East
Association of Indian Universities Indian Universities
Baroda Cricket Association Vadodara West
Bihar Cricket Association Bihar East
Chhattisgarh State Cricket Sangh Chhattisgarh Central
Cricket Association of Bengal West Bengal East
Cricket Association of Mizoram Mizoram East
Cricket Association of Uttarakhand Uttarakhand Central
Delhi & District Cricket Association Delhi North
Goa Cricket Association Goa South
Gujarat Cricket Association Gujarat
(excluding Saurashtra and Vadodara)
West
Haryana Cricket Association Haryana North
Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Himachal Pradesh North
Hyderabad Cricket Association Telangana South
Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association Jammu and Kashmir North
Jharkhand State Cricket Association Jharkhand East
Karnataka State Cricket Association Karnataka South
Kerala Cricket Association Kerala South
Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association Madhya Pradesh Central
Maharashtra Cricket Association Maharashtra
(excluding Mumbai and Vidarbha)
West
Manipur Cricket Association Manipur East
Meghalaya Cricket Association Meghalaya East
Mumbai Cricket Association Mumbai West
Nagaland Cricket Association Nagaland East
Odisha Cricket Association Odisha East
Punjab Cricket Association Punjab North
Railways Sports Promotion Board Indian Railways Central
Rajasthan Cricket Association Rajasthan Central
Saurashtra Cricket Association Saurashtra West
Services Sports Control Board Indian Armed Forces North
Sikkim Cricket Association Sikkim East
Tamil Nadu Cricket Association Tamil Nadu South
Tripura Cricket Association Tripura East
Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association Uttar Pradesh Central
Vidarbha Cricket Association Vidarbha Central

Associate Members

All members not meeting the criteria for full members are classified as associate members. They include:

NameRepresentsZone
Cricket Association of Pondicherry [lower-alpha 1] Puducherry South
Cricket Club of India [4] [6]
National Cricket Club [4] [6]
Union Territory Cricket Association [7] Chandigarh North

See also

Notes

  1. Puducherry became a full member of the BCCI in 2019, [5] but was not listed as a full member in the Memorandum of Association (constitution) as of September 2022. [2]

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