GCB history

Both Flood Cup and Kawall Cup competitions ended in 1938.

William Stanley Jones, then President of the Georgetown Cricket Club, became the first President of the GCB. Jones, who was born in New Amsterdam and who donated the famous Jones Cup to the GCB in 1954, was President of the British Guiana Sugar Company at that time.

In 1957, when Ghana attained independence, Bank of Ghana was established as the Central Bank while the Bank of the Gold Coast was renamed Ghana Commercial Bank to focus solely on commercial banking services.

In 1969, the Berbice votes were increased to 3, when the rules were changed so that the BCB Chairman of Selectors would automatically be one of the five National Selectors.

In 1971, the rules were changed again and Berbice gained 1 more vote, bringing its tally to 4.

Gaskin died in 1979, while still serving as GCB President.

In 1992, the GCB handed over control of cricket in the county of Demerara to the newly constituted Demerara Cricket Board.

On the 25th July 2008, the Executive of the GCB registered this unincorporated body as a Specially Authorised Society under the Friendly Societies Act, Chapter 36:04.

The situation still remains fluid as the Government had introduced a Cricket Administration Bill in December 2012 in Parliament in an effort to disband the current GCB and hold fresh elections with new constitutions for the GCB and its members written by a Select Committee of Parliament.