sentences:  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.However, with the help of one influential Marylebone Cricket Club member, R. H. Mallett (the manager of the 1906 and 1923 West Indian tours and future manager of the 1930–31 West Indian tour to Australia), representatives of the various territories finally got together and ultimately formed the West Indies Cricket Board of Control.The preliminary meeting was in Bridgetown, Barbados, from which the informal "West Indies Cricket Conference" was founded in 1926.