Wanderers Cricket Club
Wanderers Cricket Club is a Barbadian cricket club. The club plays in the Barbados Cricket Association Upper Intermediate Division, having been relegated from Division 1 in 2010.[1]
Wanderers is the oldest existing cricket club in Barbados. The club was founded in 1877 with its initial membership drawn from the social elite of the colony, and exclusively white.[2] The club had a strong rivalry with Pickwick Cricket Club, another white club, but one which drew its membership from a slightly lower social class. Changes in Barbadian society meant that from the 1960s onwards, the membership of Wanderers gradually came to reflect the general Barbadian population.[3]
The club originally played at the Bay Land until moving to Dayrells Road in 1952.[2]
Notable cricketers from Wanderers include:
- H.G.B. Austin, the club president in the early 1900s.[4]
- George Challenor.[5]
- Denis Atkinson.[6]
- Ian Bradshaw.[7]
- Pedro Collins.[8]
Notes
- ↑ Bynoe, Kenmore (21 April 2001). "‘No point’ to new system". The Nation. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sandiford, p. 8.
- ↑ Sandiford, p. 22.
- ↑ Sandiford, p. 9.
- ↑ Sandiford, p. 23.
- ↑ Sobers, p. 14.
- ↑ Eastmond, Harold (4 July 2010). "Greene, Bradshaw guide Wanderers to 250 all out". The Nation. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- ↑ "Pedro Collins aims at 100". DNA India. 9 June 2006. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
References
- Sandiford, Keith A. P. (1998). Cricket Nurseries of colonial Barbados: The elite schools 1865-1966. Kingston: The Press University of the West Indies. ISBN 976-640-046-6.
- Sobers, Garfield; Harris, Bob (2002). Garry Sobers. London: Headline. ISBN 0-7553-1006-3.