Windward Islands cricket team

Windward Islands
Coach:	Ian Allen
Captain:	Darren Sammy (List A & T20) Liam Sebastien (First-class)
Colours:	Green
Founded:	1980
Home ground:	Arnos Vale Stadium Queen's Park, Grenada Windsor Park (Dominica) Beausejour Stadium Mindoo Philip Park
Four Day wins:	0
WICB Cup wins:	2
Twenty20 wins:	0
Official website:	Windward Islands

The Windward Islands cricket team is a cricket team representing the member countries of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control. The team plays in the West Indies regional tournament.

It includes the islands that were known as the British Windward Islands except for Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, who have their own teams. Thus, it includes Dominica (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), Grenada, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

The team plays in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Carib Beer Cup and the KFC Cup, and the best players may be selected for the West Indies cricket team, which plays international cricket. However, Grenada took part in the 1998 Commonwealth Games cricket competition separately.

Team history

The Windward Islands team is the least successful of the six West Indian first class teams, having failed to win a first-class title and with two one-day titles in 32 attempts. They played their first first-class match in 1959-60 against the touring England side, losing by ten wickets, and until 1980-81 they mainly played as a part of the Combined Islands. However, from 1981-82 onwards they have played as a separate entity.

On a few occasions, all in the one-day Red Stripe Bowl competition, two teams have represented the Windwards. In the 2001-02, Northern Windward Islands and Southern Windward Islands competed, while in 2002-03, a team from Saint Vincent and Grenadines and a Rest of the Windward Islands side took part.

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Nat	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
?	Craig Emmanuel		9 September 1985 (1985-09-09) (age 26)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
10	Keddy Lesporis		27 December 1988 (1988-12-27) (age 22)	Right-handed	Right arm off break
22	Linden Lawrence		5 October 1988 (1988-10-05) (age 23)	Right-handed	—
28	Devon Smith		21 October 1981 (1981-10-21) (age 30)	Left-handed	Right arm off break
?	Donwell Hector		31 October 1988 (1988-10-31) (age 23)	Right-handed	Right arm off break
All-rounders
13	Keron Cottoy		14 November 1989 (1989-11-14) (age 22)	Left-handed	Right arm leg break
?	Delorn Johnson		15 September 1988 (1988-09-15) (age 23)	Left-handed	Left arm fast
?	Liam Sebastien		9 September 1984 (1984-09-09) (age 27)	Left-handed	Right arm off break	First-class captain
88	Darren Sammy		20 December 1983 (1983-12-20) (age 27)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium	List A & T20 captain
2	Gary Mathurin		23 September 1983 (1983-09-23) (age 28)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Wicket-keepers
11	Andre Fletcher		28 November 1987 (1987-11-28) (age 23)	Right-handed	—
80	Lyndon James		30 December 1984 (1984-12-30) (age 26)	Right-handed	—
99	Johnson Charles		14 January 1989 (1989-01-14) (age 22)	Right-handed	—
?	Tyrone Theophile		12 August 1989 (1989-08-12) (age 22)	Right-handed	—
Bowlers
12	Mervin Matthew		23 September 1985 (1985-09-23) (age 26)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
66	Shane Shillingford		22 February 1983 (1983-02-22) (age 28)	Right-handed	Right arm off break
23	Keon Peters		24 February 1982 (1982-02-24) (age 29)	Right-handed	Left arm medium
24	Nelon Pascal		25 April 1987 (1987-04-25) (age 24)	Right-handed	Right arm fast

Source: T20 squad , List A squad , First-class squad

Notable players

The list of prominent cricketers who have represented the Windward Islands include :

• Sir Frederick Joseph Clarke
• Cameron Cuffy
• Winston Davis
• Rawl Lewis
• Junior Murray
• Devon Smith
• Darren Sammy
• Adam Sanford

Honours

• Domestic one-day competition (2): 1988–89, 2000–01

Grounds

The Windward Islands team has at the following venues

• Arnos Vale Stadium in Kingstown, Saint Vincent, 29 out of 103)

• Queen's Park in Grenada (25 matches),

• Mindoo Philip Park in Saint Lucia (21 matches),

• Windsor Park in Dominica (16 matches).

• Beausejour Stadium in Gros Islet, Saint Lucia.

The Mindoo Philip Park has not seen any first-class cricket since 2001, and has been replaced by the Beausejour Stadium in Gros Islet, which has hosted four matches in three years.

See also

List of international cricketers from the Windward Islands

References

• Cricinfo
• CricketArchive
• 2005-06 KFC Cup Squad from Cricinfo
• Windward Islands Cricket - Info from West Indies Cricket Board