Cayman Islands national cricket team
| Cayman Islands | |
 | |
| ICC membership granted | 1997 |
| ICC member status | Associate Member |
| ICC development region | Americas |
| World Cricket League division | Five |
| Captain | Abali Hoilett |
| Coach | Pearson Best |
| First recorded match | 7 August 2000 v USA at Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City, Ontario, Canada |
| First class cricket | |
| First class matches played | 2 |
| First class wins/losses | 0/2 |
| List A cricket | |
| List A matches played | 4 |
| List A wins/losses | 0/4 |
| Twenty20 cricket | |
| Twenty20 matches played | 3 |
| Twenty20 wins/losses | 1/2 |
| As of 5 August 2007 | |
The Cayman Islands national cricket team is the team that represents the British overseas territory of the Cayman Islands in international cricket matches. They have been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 2002, having previously been an affiliate member since 1997.[1]
They have played in international competition since the year 2000, and played in the 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup.[2] They are in Division Three of the World Cricket League[3] and are ranked at 24th in the world by the ICC, the fourth ranked non-test team in the Americas region.[4]
History
The Cayman Islands became an affiliate member of the ICC in 1997[1] and played their first tournament three years later when they played in the ICC Americas Championship in Canada. They finished fourth in the tournament, their only win coming against Argentina.[5] Later in the year, they played their first List A matches as part of the Red Stripe Bowl in the West Indies. They played against Bermuda, Guyana, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands in the first round, losing all their games.[6]
The Cayman Islands gained associate membership of the ICC in 2002, a year in which they finished third in the Americas Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina after recording wins against Argentina, the Bahamas and Bermuda.[7] The 2004 Americas Championship served as a qualifying competition for the 2005 ICC Trophy, and a repeat of their third place finish from 2002 would have qualified them for that tournament. Wins against Argentina and the Bahamas meant they could only finish fourth however.[8] This did qualify them for a place in a repêchage tournament in early 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They finished fifth in that tournament after beating Kuwait in a play-off match.[9]
Later in 2005, the Cayman Islands took part in the ICC Intercontinental Cup, a tournament for ICC associate members with first-class status. They lost both their first round matches to Bermuda and Canada, thus not qualifying for the semi-finals.[2] In 2006, they first played in the inaugural Stanford 20/20 tournament. They beat the Bahamas in the preliminary round,[10] but lost to Trinidad & Tobago in the first round proper.[11]
In August 2006, they finished third in Division One of the ICC Americas Championship after wins against Argentina and Canada.[12] This qualified them for 2007 Division Three of the World Cricket League, which was played in May/June 2007 in Darwin, Australia. After beating Hong Kong and Tanzania in the first round, they lost to Argentina in the semi finals, and to Papua New Guinea in the third place play-off, thus finishing fourth in the tournament.[13] In 2009 they again placed in 2009 Division Three in which they came 5th thus relegating to Division Four. Like Argentina their bad run continued and again finished fifth only winning over Argentina. In 2012, they managed to stop the fall, finishing fourth in 2012 Division Five.
Tournament history
ICC Intercontinental Cup
- 2004: Did not participate[14]
- 2005: First round[2]
- 2006: Did not participate[15]
- 2007–08: Did not participate
- 2009–10: Did not participate
World Cricket League
- 2007: 4th in Division Three[13]
- 2009: 5th in Division Three
- 2010: 5th in Division Four
- 2012: 4th in Division Five
- 2014: 6th in Division Five
ICC Americas Championship
- 2000: 4th place[5]
- 2002: 3rd place[7]
- 2004: 4th place[8]
- 2006: 3rd place (Division One)[12]
- 2008: 4th place (Division One)
- 2010: 5th place (Division One)
The future
The Cayman Islands will again take part in Division Five of the World Cricket League in 2014.
Players
Current squad
The Cayman Islands squad at the World Cricket League Division Three tournament was as follows:[16]
| Name | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Captain | |||
| Ryan Bovell | RHB | Right-arm medium-fast | – |
| Wicketkeepers | |||
| Ryan Ebanks | RHB | – | No relation to Ronald Ebanks |
| Ainsley Hall | RHB | Right-arm medium | – |
| Keneil Irving | RHB | Right-arm medium | – |
| Opening Batsmen | |||
| Steve Gordon | RHB | Right-arm medium | Previously played for Jamaica |
| Ainsley Hall | RHB | Right-arm medium | – |
| Middle Order Batsmen | |||
| Ronald Ebanks | RHB | Right-arm medium/off spin | No relation to Ryan Ebanks |
| Jalon Linton | RHB | – | – |
| Saheed Mohamed | RHB | Off spin | – |
| All-rounders | |||
| Pearson Best | RHB | Right-arm slow-medium | – |
| Franklyn Hinds | RHB | Right-arm medium | – |
| Joseph Kirkconnell | RHB | Right-arm medium | – |
| Spin bowler | |||
| Michael Wight | RHB | Leg spin | – |
| Fast bowlers | |||
| Kenute Tulloch | RHB | Right-arm medium-fast | – |
| Troy Taylor | RHB | Right-arm medium-fast | – |
Performance by Cayman Island cricketers in World Cricket League matches
| Current Players | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| Ramon Sealy | 24 | 344 | 0 |
| Conroy Wright | 18 | 322 | 26 |
| Omar Willis | 12 | 173 | 1 |
| Alessandro Morris | 22 | 134 | 17 |
| Ainsley Hall | 20 | 416 | 0 |
| Ronald Ebanks | 16 | 208 | 9 |
| Darren Cato | 4 | 60 | 0 |
| Omar Bryan | 3 | 40 | 1 |
| Kervin Ebanks | 17 | 117 | 9 |
| Ricardo Roach | 12 | 117 | 2 |
| Troy Taylor | 6 | 42 | 12 |
| Ian Rotsey | 4 | 14 | 0 |
| Steve Gordon | 18 | 435 | 0 |
| Nicholas Sellars | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| Former Players | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Matches | Runs | Wickets |
| Pearson Best | 19 | 345 | 0 |
| Abali Hoilett | 9 | 69 | 0 |
| Ryan Bovell | 23 | 305 | 38 |
| Alistair Ifill | 5 | 14 | 0 |
| Kevin Bazil | 18 | 61 | 8 |
| Marlon Bryan | 6 | 4 | 7 |
| Saheed Mohamed | 17 | 294 | 14 |
| Paul Chin | 2 | 24 | 0 |
| Jalon Linton | 3 | 13 | 0 |
| Keneil Irving | 10 | 108 | 0 |
| Kenute Tulloch | 11 | 30 | 11 |
| Franklyn Hinds | 5 | 19 | 10 |
| Michael Wight | 5 | 11 | 4 |
| Joseph Kirkconnell | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| Ryan Ebanks | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Highest scores
Steve Gordon – 104* vs Tanzania at Tracy Village Oval, Darwin on 27 May 2007
Ainsley Hall – 100* vs Tanzania at Tracy Village Oval, Darwin on 27 May 2007
Pearson Best – 85 vs Italy at Centro Sportivo Ca'Nova, Medicina on 19 August 2010
Conroy Wright – 79* vs Jersey at Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur on 10 March 2014
Pearson Best – 79 vs Guernsey at The Padang, Singapore on 25 February 2012
Best Bowling figures
Ryan Bovell – 5/9 vs Argentina at Indian Assoc. Ground, Singapore on 22 February 2012
Kervin Ebanks – 5/19 vs Guernsey at Royal Selangor Club, Kuala Lumpur on 6 March 2014
Franklyn Hinds – 4/22 vs Hong Kong at Tracy Village Oval, Darwin on 28 May 2007
Michael Wight – 4/30 vs Uganda at Marrara Cricket Ground, Darwin on 30 May 2007
Ryan Bovell – 4/35 vs Papua New Guinea at Belgrano ACG, Buenos Aires on 24 January 2009
Other players
In addition to those listed above, the following Cayman Islands cricketers have played first-class, List A or official Twenty20 cricket:[17]
- Marc Chin
- Steadman Gray
- Charles Greaves
- Abali Hoilett
- Carley James
- Oscar Owen
- Christopher Wight
- David Wight
- Philip Wight
- Conroy Wright
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Cayman Islands at Cricket Archive
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup at CricketEurope
- ↑ Uganda lift Division Three title by Andrew Nixon, 2 June 2007 at CricketEurope
- ↑ One-Day rankings at the official website of the ICC
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Americas Cup 2000 at CricketEurope
- ↑ Red Stripe Bowl 2000/01 at Cricket Archive
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Americas Cup 2002 at CricketEurope
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 2005 ICC Trophy Americas qualifying at CricketEurope
- ↑ Scorecard of Cayman Islands v Kuwait, 27 February 2005 at Cricket Archive
- ↑ Scorecard of Bahamas v Cayman Islands, 11 July 2006 at Cricket Archive
- ↑ Scorecard of Cayman Islands v Trinidad & Tobago, 25 July 2006 at Cricket Archive
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 2006 ICC Americas Championship Division One at CricketEurope
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 2007 World Cricket League Division Three at CricketEurope
- ↑ 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup at CricketEurope
- ↑ 2006 ICC Intercontinental Cup at CricketEurope
- ↑ 2007 ICC World Cricket league Division Three squads at CricketEurope
- ↑ Cayman Islands players at Cricket Archive
See also
- Cricket in Cayman Islands