Windward Islands cricket team

Windward Islands

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Captain:	Darren Sammy (List A & T20) Liam Sebastien (First-class)
Coach:	Ian Allen
Colors:	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 Professional Cricket League (including the NAGICO Regional Super50) under the franchise name Windward Islands Volcanoes.

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 three one-day titles in 33 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
28	Devon Smith		(1981-10-21) 21 October 1981	Left-handed	Right arm off break
?	Craig Emmanuel		(1985-09-09) 9 September 1985	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
10	Keddy Lesporis		(1988-12-27) 27 December 1988	Right-handed	Right arm off break
?	Sunil Ambris		(1993-03-23) 23 March 1993	Right-handed
?	Miles Bascombe		(1986-01-12) 12 January 1986	Right-handed
All-rounders
?	Liam Sebastien		(1984-09-09) 9 September 1984	Left-handed	Right arm off break	First-class captain
88	Darren Sammy		(1983-12-20) 20 December 1983	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium	List A & T20 captain
?	Romel Currency		(1982-05-07) 7 May 1982	Right-handed	Right arm off break
?	Dalton Polius		(1990-09-12) 12 September 1990	Left-handed	Right arm off break
Wicket-keepers
11	Andre Fletcher		(1987-11-28) 28 November 1987	Right-handed	Right arm medium
80	Lindon James		(1984-12-30) 30 December 1984	Right-handed
25	Johnson Charles		(1989-01-14) 14 January 1989	Right-handed	Right arm Right arm medium
?	Tyrone Theophile		(1989-08-12) 12 August 1989	Right-handed
?	Denis Smith		(1991-10-30) 30 October 1991	Right-handed
Bowlers
23	Delorn Johnson		(1988-09-15) 15 September 1988	Left-handed	Left arm fast
18	Garey Mathurin		(1983-09-23) 23 September 1983	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
12	Mervin Matthew		(1985-09-23) 23 September 1985	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
66	Shane Shillingford		(1983-02-22) 22 February 1983	Right-handed	Right arm off break
?	Kenroy Peters		(1982-02-24) 24 February 1982	Right-handed	Left arm medium
24	Nelon Pascal		(1987-04-25) 25 April 1987	Right-handed	Right arm fast
?	Alston Bobb		(1984-01-17) 17 January 1984	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox

Source:

• Squad 2014-15
• Squad 2013-14

Notable players

See also: List of Windward Islands first-class cricketers

Prominent cricketers who have represented the Windward Islands include:

• Mike Findlay
• Winston Davis
• Nixon McLean
• Cameron Cuffy
• Deighton Butler
• Rawl Lewis
• Junior Murray
• Devon Smith
• Andre Fletcher
• Darren Sammy
• Johnson Charles
• Lockhart Sebastien
• Irvine Shillingford
• Shane Shillingford
• Adam Sanford

Honours

• Domestic one-day competition (3): 1988–89, 2000–01, 2012–13.

Grounds

The Windward Islands team has played 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
• List of Windward Islands first-class cricketers
• Dominica national cricket team
• Grenada national cricket team
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines national cricket team
• Saint Lucia national cricket team

References

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