Colours: Green WICB Cup wins: 2 Coach Ian Allen WICB Cup wins 2 Date founded 1980 | Four Day wins: 0 Twenty20 wins: 0 Four Day wins 0 Twenty20 wins 0 | |
Home ground: Arnos Vale Stadium Queen's Park, Grenada Windsor Park (Dominica) Beausejour Stadium Mindoo Philip Park Official website: Windward Island Cricket Board Captain Liam Sebastien (First-class & List A) Grounds Arnos Vale Stadium, National Cricket Stadium | ||
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.
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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
Listed below are players who have represented the Windward Islands in either the 2016–17 Regional Four Day Competition or the 2016–17 Regional Super50. Players with international caps are listed in bold.
Source: Regional Four Day Competition, Regional Super50
Notable players
Prominent cricketers who have represented the Windward Islands include:
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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 Beausejour Stadium in Gros Islet, which has hosted four matches in three years.