| Guyana National Cricket Team | |||
| Coach: | Mark Harper | ||
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| Captain: | Assad Fudadin | ||
| Colours: | Green Yellow Red | ||
| Founded: | 1965 | ||
| Home ground: | Bourda | ||
| Capacity: | 22,000 | ||
| Four Day wins: | 5 (plus 1 shared) | ||
| WICB Cup wins: | 7 (plus 2 shared) | ||
| Twenty20 wins: | 1 | ||
The Guyana cricket team is the representative first class cricket team of Guyana.
It does not take part in any international competitions, but rather in inter-regional 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 team which plays international cricket.
Guyana has won the domestic first class title five times since its inception in 1965-66, which is the third highest amount of wins, behind Barbados and Jamaica.
In one-day cricket, Guyana reached the final of the domestic competition four times in the early 2000s, but the last victory was in 2005-06. They have won the KFC Cup a total of nine times - including two shared titles - which is the most by any competing team, Trinidad and Tobago coming closest with seven (including one shared).
The cricket team has been known under two other names - they were first known as Demerara when they played in the first first-class cricket game of the West Indies, against Barbados in 1865, and they retained that name until 1899, when it was finally changed to British Guiana (they had also played first-class cricket in 1895 as British Guiana). The name of British Guiana stuck until 1965-66, when the nation and thus the team changed to its current name. From 1971 until the mid 1980s two regional sides competed in an annual first class match for the Guystac Trophy.
The list of prominent cricketers who have played for Guyana includes Basil Butcher, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Colin Croft, Roy Fredericks, Lance Gibbs, Roger Harper, Carl Hooper, Alvin Kallicharran, Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd and Ramnaresh Sarwan.
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Guyana's main home ground is the Bourda ground in Georgetown, where they have played 131 of their 181 first class home games, and which has also hosted 30 Test matches with the West Indies. Other grounds include the Albion Sports Complex in the Berbice region, which has hosted 24 Guyana matches and five ODIs, and from 1997-98 Guyana began to use the Enmore Recreation Ground, where they have played five games. In 2004-05 they also played a match at Hampton Court in Essequibo, their first first-class match there in 17 seasons.
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
| No. | Name | Nat | Birth date | Batting Style | Bowling Style | Notes |
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| Batsmen | ||||||
| 6 | Shivnarine Chanderpaul | 16 August 1974 | Left-handed | Right arm leg break | Not Included in CLT20 Squad | |
| 10 | Travis Dowlin | 24 February 1977 | Right-handed | Right arm off break | ||
| 25 | Jonathan Foo | 11 September 1990 | Right-handed | Right arm leg break | ||
| 53 | Ramnaresh Sarwan | 23 June 1980 | Right-handed | Right arm leg break | ||
| 65 | Sewnarine Chattergoon | 3 April 1981 | Left-handed | Right arm leg break | ||
| ?? | Steven Jacobs | 13 September 1988 | Right-handed | Right arm off break | ||
| ?? | Assad Fudadin | 1 August 1985 | Left-handed | Right arm medium-fast | Captain | |
| ?? | Richard Ramdeen | 16 February 1988 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | ||
| ?? | Gajanand Singh | 3 October 1987 | Left-handed | Left arm medium pace | Not Included in CLT20 Squad | |
| ?? | Leon Johnson | 8 August 1987 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Not Included in CLT20 Squad | |
| All-rounders | ||||||
| 2 | Royston Crandon | 31 May 1983 | Right-handed | Right arm off break | ||
| 28 | Narsingh Deonarine | 16 August 1983 | Left-handed | Right arm off break | ||
| 54 | Esuan Crandon | 17 December 1981 | Right-handed | Right arm fast | ||
| 71 | Lennox Cush | 12 December 1974 | Right-handed | Right arm off break | ||
| 90 | Christopher Barnwell | 6 January 1987 | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast | ||
| Wicket-keepers | ||||||
| 11 | Derwin Christian | 9 May 1983 | Right-handed | — | ||
| Bowlers | ||||||
| 20 | Devendra Bishoo | 6 November 1985 | Right-handed | Right arm leg break | ||
| 33 | Paul Wintz | 7 March 1986 | Right-handed | Right arm fast-medium | ||
| ?? | Brandon Bess | 13 December 1987 | Right-handed | Right arm fast-medium | Not Included in CLT20 Squad | |
Sources: Cricinfo , Guyana Cricket Board , CLT20 15-man Squad
| Player | Runs | Average | Centuries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clayton Lambert | 4680 | 48.75 | 14 [1] |
| Roy Fredericks | 4344 | 70.06 | 15 [2] |
| Shivnarine Chanderpaul | 3913 | 63.11 | 12 [3] |
| Carl Hooper | 3372 | 58.13 | 13 [4] |
| Clive Lloyd | 3102 | 66.00 | 12 [5] |
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