In November 2015, the Board resolved to rename itself as Cricket West Indies as part of a restructuring exercise that would also see the creation of a separate commercial body.

Since 2005, per an ICC mandate, the West Indies Women's Cricket Federation (WIWCF) has been integrated with CWI.

[1] West Indian cricketers however had felt the need for the establishment of such an organisation although geography and culture were to make such a task difficult.

The preliminary meeting was in Bridgetown, Barbados, from which the informal West Indies Cricket Conference was founded in 1926.

The WICBC's first meeting was held on 17 and 18 June 1927 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad with Harold Austin (the former captain of the 1906 and 1923 West Indian tours of England) serving as the first president.

[2] The board as constituted was enlarged in 1982 when the Leeward and Windward Islands were given the same representation as the other full Members.

There was a provision for associate members who would be entitled to attend meetings but not to move resolutions or vote.

In the case of the Regional Four Day Competition and the Regional Super50 the following first-class domestic teams participate: In 1978 Belize had requested (through the then Belize Cricket Association) in a letter to the WICBC to participate in the Shell Shield and the List A competitions, but the WICBC was unable to entertain their request.