Multinational cricket team
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 Professional Cricket League (including the NAGICO Regional Super50 ) under the franchise name Windward Islands Volcanoes .[1]
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 one of the Leeward Islands , but as it was part of the Windward Islands colony from 1940 until independence, 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 Regional Four Day Competition and the Regional Super50 , 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. The Windwards have won a sum of four regional one day titles. With prominent cricketers who've played for the Windward Islands including Sunil Ambris , Cameron Cuffy , Casper Davis , Winston Davis , Delorn Johnson , Obed McCoy , Nixon McLean , Junior Murray , Darren Sammy , Shane Shillingford , Devon Smith , Wilf Slack and Kesrick Williams .
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 four one-day titles in 37 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
Name
Birth date
Batting style
Bowling style
Notes
Batsmen
Devon Smith
(1981-10-21 ) 21 October 1981 (age 42)
Left-handed
Right-arm off spin
Desron Maloney
(1991-05-05 ) 5 May 1991 (age 33)
Right-handed
-
Kirk Edwards
(1984-11-03 ) 3 November 1984 (age 39)
Left-handed
Right-arm off spin
List A Captain
Johann Jeremiah
(1999-02-12 ) 12 February 1999 (age 25)
Right-handed
Right-arm off spin
All-rounders
Kavem Hodge
(1993-02-21 ) 21 February 1993 (age 31)
Right-handed
Left-arm orthodox
Keron Cottoy
(1989-11-14 ) 14 November 1989 (age 34)
Left-handed
Right-arm leg spin
Alick Athanaze
(1998-12-07 ) 7 December 1998 (age 25)
Left-handed
Right-arm off spin
Bhaskar Yadram
(1999-09-18 ) 18 September 1999 (age 24)
Left-handed
Right-arm medium
Ryan John
(1997-09-25 ) 25 September 1997 (age 26)
Right-handed
Right-arm medium-fast
Wicket-keepers
Emmanuel Stewart
(1999-08-23 ) 23 August 1999 (age 24)
Right-handed
-
Andre Fletcher
(1987-11-28 ) 28 November 1987 (age 36)
Right-handed
-
Sunil Ambris
(1993-03-23 ) 23 March 1993 (age 31)
Right-handed
-
First-class Captain
Spin Bowlers
Shane Shillingford
(1983-02-22 ) 22 February 1983 (age 41)
Right-handed
Right-arm off spin
Larry Edwards
(1995-02-16 ) 16 February 1995 (age 29)
Left-handed
Left-arm orthodox
Kenneth Dember
Right-arm off spin
Pace Bowlers
Shermon Lewis
(1995-10-21 ) 21 October 1995 (age 28)
Right-handed
Right-arm fast
Preston McSween
(1995-08-15 ) 15 August 1995 (age 28)
Right-handed
Left-arm medium-fast
Josh Thomas
Right-arm medium
Ray Jordan
(1994-10-21 ) 21 October 1994 (age 29)
Right-handed
Right-arm fast-medium
Notable players
Prominent cricketers who have represented the Windward Islands include:
Honours
Grounds
The Windward Islands team has played at the following venues
The Mindoo Philip Park has not seen any first-class cricket since 2001, and has been replaced by the Darren Sammy Cricket Ground in Gros Islet .
See also
References
External links
Current first-class and list A teams Current franchise T20 teams Other teams Guest teams in domestic competition