The Leeward Islands Cricket Association, also known as the Leeward Islands Cricket Board (more often since 2015), is the ruling body for cricket in the following West Indian islands: Antigua and Barbuda (founding member in 1913), Saint Kitts (founding member, 1913), Nevis (admitted in 1949), Anguilla, Montserrat (founding member 1913), British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands and Sint Maarten. Dominica is technically a part of the Leeward Islands, but as it was part of the Windward Islands colony from 1940 until independence and its cricket federation remains a part of the Windward Islands although it did participate in the first Leeward Islands tournament and was a founding member of the Leeward Islands Cricket Association in 1913.