A Suitable Case for Treatment

GH on a history of the International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council was established, as the Imperial Cricket Conference, in 1909. Rod Lyall’s The Club is the first history of the body. This tells you something - that not even its members think much of it, and that cricket historians have tended to agree. Its peers, the International Olympic Committee, Fédération Internationale de Football Association and World Rugby, dominate their respective sports. For most of its span, the ICC has been like T. S. Eliot’s mystery cat Macavity (‘You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air—/But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!’).