It promulgates the ICC Code of Conduct, which sets professional standards of discipline for international cricket,[4] and also co-ordinates action against corruption and match-fixing through its Anti-Corruption and Security Unit.

[7] The last ICC president was Zaheer Abbas,[8] who was appointed in June 2015 following the resignation of Mustafa Kamal in April 2015.

In the letter, he suggested that the board would be responsible for the formulation of rules and regulations that would govern the bilateral international matches of the three members, Australia, England and South Africa.

[10] On 15 June 1909, representatives from England, Australia and South Africa met at Lord's and founded the Imperial Cricket Conference.

[10] In 1926, West Indies, New Zealand and India were elected as Full Members, doubling the number of Test-playing nations to six.

[11] New members were added frequently during this period: Israel and Singapore in 1974, West Africa in 1976, Bangladesh in 1977, Papua-New Guinea in 1978, were admitted as Associates.

By 1995, TV replays were made available for run-outs and stumpings in Test matches, with the third umpire required to signal out or not out with red and green lights respectively.

Associate Members – The 96 governing bodies in countries where cricket is firmly established and organized, but have not been granted Full Membership.

The independently run ICC was funded initially by commercial exploitation of the rights to the World Cup of One Day International cricket.

As not all Member countries had double-tax agreements with the United Kingdom, it was necessary to protect cricket's revenues by creating a company, ICC Development (International) Pvt.

The Council decided to seek ways of bringing all of their staff together in one office while protecting their commercial income from tax.

[This paragraph needs citation(s)] The option of staying at Lord's was investigated and a request was made, through Sport England, to the British Government to allow the ICC to have all its personnel (including those working on commercial matters) in London – but be given special exemption from paying UK corporation tax on its commercial income.

As a consequence, the ICC examined other locations and eventually settled on the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Lord's had been a logical venue when the ICC had been administered by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) (a situation that lasted until 1993).

Sponsorship and television rights of the World Cup brought in over US$1.6 billion between 2007 and 2015, by far the ICC's main source of income.

[20][21] In the nine-month accounting period to 31 December 2007 the ICC had operating income of $12.66 million, mainly from member subscriptions and sponsorship.

The Super Series was widely seen as a failure and is not expected to be repeated, and India called for the Champions Trophy to be scrapped in 2006.

The ICC organizes various international Test, One-Day and Twenty20 cricket competitions for Men, Women and Under-19 national teams.

In addition, there are two playoff events which are part of World cup qualification process and essentially connected to the leagues above mentioned.

[citation needed] The ICC maintains a set of playing conditions for international cricket which make slight amendments to the Laws.

Members of the Elite Panel are full-time employees of the ICC, although they do still, very occasionally, umpire first-class cricket in their country of residence.

The average annual officiating schedule for Elite Umpires is 8–10 Test matches and 10–15 ODIs, a potential on-field workload of 75 days per year, plus travel and preparation time.

Each of the Test cricket boards nominates a "third umpire" who can be called upon to review certain on-field decisions through instant television replays.

The Council failed to achieve consensus among the cricket-playing nations – as of June 2012 – on the universal application of an Umpire's Decision Review System, due to opposition by BCCI.

Following the corruption scandals by cricketers connected with the legal and illegal bookmaking markets, the ICC set up an Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) in 2000 under the retired Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, Lord Condon.

Among the corruption on which they have reported was that of former South African captain Hansie Cronje who had accepted substantial sums of money from an Indian bookmaker for under-performing or ensuring that certain matches had a pre-determined result.

Similarly, the former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja were investigated, found guilty of match-fixing, and banned from playing cricket (for life and for five years, respectively).

The ACSU continues to monitor and investigate any reports of corruption in cricket and protocols have been introduced, which for example prohibit the use of mobile telephones in dressing rooms.

[37][38][39][40] In 2019, an investigation by Al Jazeera revealed match-fixing in Sri-Lanka, India, England, Australia and other cricket playing nations.

The ICC Global Cricket Academy (GCA) is located at Dubai Sports City in the United Arab Emirates.