Windward Islands cricket team
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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.
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.
Source: T20 squad , List A squad , First-class squad
Sir Frederick Joseph Clarke Cameron Cuffy
Winston Davis
Rawl Lewis
Junior Murray
Devon Smith
Darren Sammy
Adam Sanford
The Mindoo Philip Park has not seen any first-class cricket since 2001, and has been replaced by the Beausejour Stadium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.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
team representing the member countries of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control. The team plays in the West Indies regional tournament
Carib Beer Cup
The Regional Four Day Competition, formerly known as Shell Shield and Carib Beer Cup, is the first class cricket competition in the West Indies, it is administered by the West Indies Cricket Board...
.
It includes the islands that were known as the British Windward Islands
British Windward Islands
The British Windward Islands was a British colony existing between 1833 and 1960 and consisting of the islands of Grenada, St Lucia, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines, Barbados , Tobago , and Dominica, previously included in the...
except for Barbados
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
and Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
, who have their own teams. Thus, it includes Dominica
Dominica
Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...
(technically a part of the Leeward Islands
Leeward Islands
The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the West Indies. They are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain. As a group they start east of Puerto Rico and reach southward to Dominica. They are situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean...
, 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
Grenada
Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...
, Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...
and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles chain, namely in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean....
.
The team plays in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Carib Beer Cup
Carib Beer Cup
The Regional Four Day Competition, formerly known as Shell Shield and Carib Beer Cup, is the first class cricket competition in the West Indies, it is administered by the West Indies Cricket Board...
and the KFC Cup
KFC Cup
The Regional Super 50 is the current name of the domestic one-day cricket competition in the West Indies, it was previously known as the KFC Cup until the fast food chain pulled out of sponsorship in 2008 and the WICB Cup until 2011...
, 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 at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Cricket was included in the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia. This was the first—and, to date, only—time cricket has been played at a Commonwealth Games. Matches were played over 50 overs, and had List A status, although they were not full One Day Internationals...
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-dayOne-day cricket
Limited overs cricket, also known as one-day cricket and in a slightly different context as List A cricket, is a version of the sport of cricket in which a match is generally completed in one day, whereas Test and first-class matches can take up to five days to complete...
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
Combined Islands cricket team
The Combined Islands cricket team were a cricket team that represented the cricket-playing islands of the Lesser Antilles, excluding Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago who fielded their own teams. They played in 13 Shell Shield tournaments from 1965-66 to 1980-81, when they won their first title and...
. 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 Craig Emmanuel Craig Walt Emmanuel is a West Indian cricketer who plays first class cricket for Windward Islands. He made his debut in the 2003–04 season by playing three games for West Indies U-19. At the conclusion of the 2005–06 season, he has played 19 first class and 15 List A games, all for the Windward... |
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9 September 1985 (age 26) | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
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| 10 | Keddy Lesporis | |
27 December 1988 (age 23) | Right-handed | Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners.... |
|
| 22 | Linden Lawrence |  |
5 October 1988 (age 23) | Right-handed | — | |
| 28 | Devon Smith Devon Smith Devon Sheldon Smith is a cricketer who represents the West Indies. His primary role within the team is as an opening or top order left-handed batsman, he has bowled right arm off breaks in his career but rarely at international level. In the West Indian domestic competitions he plays for the... |
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21 October 1981 (age 30) | Left-handed | Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners.... |
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| ? | Donwell Hector |  |
31 October 1988 (age 23) | Right-handed | Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners.... |
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| All-rounders | ||||||
| 13 | Keron Cottoy | |
14 November 1989 (age 22) | Left-handed | Right arm leg break Leg break A leg break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. A delivery of a right-handed leg spin bowler. Leg breaks are also colloquially known as leggies or wrist spinners, as the wrist is the body part which is primarily used to impart spin on the ball, as opposed to the fingers in the case of... |
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| ? | Delorn Johnson | |
15 September 1988 (age 23) | Left-handed | Left arm fast Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
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| ? | Liam Sebastien Liam Sebastien Liam Andrew Shannon Sebastien, born 9 September 1984 in Roseau, Dominica, is a cricketer who plays first-class and List A cricket for the Windward Islands. He is the son of former Windward Islands and Combined Islands cricketer Lockhart Sebastien... |
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9 September 1984 (age 27) | Left-handed | Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners.... |
First-class captain Captain (cricket) The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player... |
| 88 | Darren Sammy Darren Sammy Darren Julius Garvey Sammy is a Saint Lucian cricketer who plays international cricket for the West Indies. He is a right-handed batsman and a fast-medium bowler. On making his One Day International debut against Bangladesh in 2004, Sammy became the first person from the island of St. Lucia... |
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20 December 1983 (age 28) | Right-handed | Right arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
List A & T20 captain Captain (cricket) The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player... |
| 2 | Gary Mathurin | |
23 September 1983 (age 28) | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox Left-arm orthodox spin Left-arm orthodox spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket.Left-arm orthodox spin is bowled by a left arm bowler using the fingers to spin the ball from right to left of the cricket pitch... |
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| Wicket-keepers | ||||||
| 11 | Andre Fletcher Andre Fletcher Andre Fletcher is a West Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and often keeps wicket.Fletcher played for the West Indian cricket team in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka... |
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28 November 1987 (age 24) | Right-handed | — | |
| 80 | Lyndon James | |
30 December 1984 (age 27) | Right-handed | — | |
| 99 | Johnson Charles | |
14 January 1989 (age 23) | Right-handed | — | |
| ? | Tyrone Theophile | |
12 August 1989 (age 22) | Right-handed | — | |
| Bowlers | ||||||
| 12 | Mervin Matthew | |
23 September 1985 (age 26) | Right-handed | Right arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
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| 66 | Shane Shillingford Shane Shillingford Shane Shillingford, born 22 February 1983 in Dominica, is a West Indian cricketer who plays first-class and List A cricket for the Windward Islands.... |
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22 February 1983 (age 28) | Right-handed | Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners.... |
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| 23 | Keon Peters | |
24 February 1982 (age 29) | Right-handed | Left arm medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
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| 24 | Nelon Pascal Nelon Pascal Nelon Troy Pascal, born 25 April 1987 in St David's, Grenada, is a cricketer who has represented the West Indies in Tests and One Day Internationals . He is a fast bowler who bats and bowls right handed. His main first-class and List A cricket has been for the Windward Islands. He played for the... |
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25 April 1987 (age 24) | Right-handed | Right arm fast Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
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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
Cameron Cuffy
Cameron Eustace Cuffy was a West Indian cricketer, who was often likened to Joel Garner and Curtly Ambrose. 6-foot 8 inches tall, he seemed to deliver the ball from the clouds. But there the comparisons ended with his famous predecessors.He made his Test debut against India in 1994 but was totally...
Winston Davis
Winston Davis
Winston Walter Davis is a former West Indian cricketer.Davis played his first representative match for West Indies Young Cricketers against their English counterparts at Port-of-Spain in August 1976, making an immediate impact by taking 4-35 in his first innings, including the wickets of future...
Rawl Lewis
Rawl Lewis
Rawl Nicholas Lewis is a West Indian cricketer. Statistically, he is one of the most ineffective Test bowlers of recent times.Lewis is a right-handed batsman and bowls a legbreak googly...
Junior Murray
Junior Murray
Junior Randalph Murray is a West Indian cricketer.One of a handful of Grenadians to play Test cricket for the West Indies, Junior Murray was a wicketkeeper batsman...
Devon Smith
Devon Smith
Devon Sheldon Smith is a cricketer who represents the West Indies. His primary role within the team is as an opening or top order left-handed batsman, he has bowled right arm off breaks in his career but rarely at international level. In the West Indian domestic competitions he plays for the...
Darren Sammy
Darren Sammy
Darren Julius Garvey Sammy is a Saint Lucian cricketer who plays international cricket for the West Indies. He is a right-handed batsman and a fast-medium bowler. On making his One Day International debut against Bangladesh in 2004, Sammy became the first person from the island of St. Lucia...
Adam Sanford
Adam Sanford
Adam Sanford is a West Indian cricketer who currently plays first class cricket for the Leeward Islands, despite being born in Dominica, which is a member of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control...
Grounds
The Windward Islands team has at the following venues- Arnos Vale Stadium in KingstownKingstownKingstown is the chief port of Saint Vincent, and the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. With a population of 25,418 Kingstown is a centre for the island's agricultural industry and a port of entry for tourists...
, Saint VincentSaint Vincent (island)Saint Vincent is a volcanic island in the Caribbean. It is the largest island of the chain called Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is located in the Caribbean Sea, between Saint Lucia and Grenada. It is composed of partially submerged volcanic mountains...
, 29 out of 103)
- Queen's Park in GrenadaGrenadaGrenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...
(25 matches),
- Mindoo Philip ParkMindoo Philip ParkMindoo Philip Park is a cricket stadium located in Castries, Saint Lucia. It is a home venue for the Windward Islands cricket team. However, first class cricket has not been played since 2001 due to the construction of Beausejour Stadium....
in Saint LuciaSaint LuciaSaint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...
(21 matches),
- Windsor ParkWindsor Park (Dominica)Windsor Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Roseau, Dominica. It also serves as the national stadium and is currently used mostly for cricket matches...
in DominicaDominicaDominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...
(16 matches).
- Beausejour StadiumBeausejour StadiumBeausejour Stadium is a cricket ground located near Gros Islet, Saint Lucia. It was completed in 2002 and currently accommodates 13,000 spectators...
in Gros IsletGros IsletGros Islet is a community located near the northern tip of the island country of Saint Lucia. Originally a quiet fishing village, it has gone on to become one of the more popular tourist destinations in the country....
, Saint LuciaSaint LuciaSaint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...
.
The Mindoo Philip Park has not seen any first-class cricket since 2001, and has been replaced by the Beausejour Stadium
Beausejour Stadium
Beausejour Stadium is a cricket ground located near Gros Islet, Saint Lucia. It was completed in 2002 and currently accommodates 13,000 spectators...
in Gros Islet
Gros Islet
Gros Islet is a community located near the northern tip of the island country of Saint Lucia. Originally a quiet fishing village, it has gone on to become one of the more popular tourist destinations in the country....
, which has hosted four matches in three years.