- Windward Islands cricket team
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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.
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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 Right-handed Right arm medium-fast 10 Keddy Lesporis 27 December 1988 Right-handed Right arm off break 22 Linden Lawrence 5 October 1988 Right-handed — 28 Devon Smith 21 October 1981 Left-handed Right arm off break ? Donwell Hector 31 October 1988 Right-handed Right arm off break All-rounders 13 Keron Cottoy 14 November 1989 Left-handed Right arm leg break ? Delorn Johnson 15 September 1988 Left-handed Left arm fast ? Liam Sebastien 9 September 1984 Left-handed Right arm off break First-class captain 88 Darren Sammy 20 December 1983 Right-handed Right arm fast-medium List A & T20 captain 2 Gary Mathurin 23 September 1983 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Wicket-keepers 11 Andre Fletcher 28 November 1987 Right-handed — 80 Lyndon James 30 December 1984 Right-handed — 99 Johnson Charles 14 January 1989 Right-handed — ? Tyrone Theophile 12 August 1989 Right-handed — Bowlers 12 Mervin Matthew 23 September 1985 Right-handed Right arm fast-medium 66 Shane Shillingford 22 February 1983 Right-handed Right arm off break 23 Keon Peters 24 February 1982 Right-handed Left arm medium 24 Nelon Pascal 25 April 1987 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
West Indies first class cricket teams Barbados | Guyana | Combined Campuses and Colleges | Jamaica | Leeward Islands | Trinidad and Tobago | Windward IslandsCategories:- West Indian first-class cricket teams
- Cricket in Dominica
- Cricket in Grenada
- Cricket in Saint Lucia
- Cricket in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Cricket in the Windward Islands
- National cricket teams
- Windward Islands
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