Windward Islands cricket team

Windward Islands

Captain:	Darren Sammy (List A & T20) Liam Sebastien (First-class)
Coach:	Ian Allen
Colours:	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.^[1]

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 2015–16 Regional Four Day Competition or the 2015–16 Regional Super50. Players with international caps are listed in bold.

	Name	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batsmen
	Sunil Ambris	(1993-03-23) 23 March 1993	Right-handed
	Miles Bascombe	(1986-01-12) 12 January 1986	Right-handed
	Keddy Lesporis	(1988-12-27) 27 December 1988	Right-handed	Right-arm off spin
	Devon Smith	(1981-10-21) 21 October 1981	Left-handed	Right-arm off spin
All-rounders
	Liam Sebastien	(1984-09-09) 9 September 1984	Left-handed	Right-arm off spin	Captain
	Dalton Polius	(1990-09-12) 12 September 1990	Left-handed	Right-arm off spin
Wicket-keepers
	Johnson Charles	(1989-01-14) 14 January 1989	Right-handed
	Andre Fletcher	(1987-11-28) 28 November 1987	Right-handed
	Tyrone Theophile	(1989-08-12) 12 August 1989	Right-handed
Bowlers
	Alston Bobb	(1984-01-17) 17 January 1984	Left-handed	Left-arm orthodox
	Keron Cottoy	(1989-11-14) 14 November 1989	Left-handed	Right-arm leg spin
	Kavem Hodge	(1993-02-21) 21 February 1993	Right-handed	Left-arm orthodox
	Delorn Johnson	(1988-09-15) 15 September 1988	Left-handed	Left-arm fast
	Mervin Matthew	(1985-09-23) 23 September 1985	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
	Kyle Mayers	(1992-09-08) 8 September 1992	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
	Kevin McClean	(1988-01-24) 24 January 1988	Left-handed	Right-arm fast
	Kenroy Peters	(1982-02-24) 24 February 1982	Right-handed	Left-arm medium
	Shane Shillingford	(1983-02-22) 22 February 1983	Right-handed	Right-arm off spin

Source: Regional Four Day Competition, Regional Super50

Notable players

Prominent cricketers who have represented the Windward Islands include:

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.

References

↑ Jamaica Franchise at home against Leeward Islands Hurricanes

Teams in West Indian domestic cricket

Current first-class and list A teams	Barbados Guyana Combined Campuses and Colleges Jamaica Leeward Islands Trinidad and Tobago Windward Islands

Current franchise T20 teams	Antigua Hawksbills Barbados Tridents Guyana Amazon Warriors Jamaica Tallawahs St Kitts and Nevis Patriots St Lucia Zouks Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel

Other teams	Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Berbice British Virgin Islands Central Trinidad Combined Islands Demerara Dominica East Trinidad Essequibo Grenada Montserrat Nevis North and East Trinidad Northern Windward Islands North Trinidad Rest of Leeward Islands Rest of Windward Islands Saint Kitts Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sint Maarten South and Central Trinidad South Trinidad Tobago United States Virgin Islands University of the West Indies West Indies "A" West Indies "B" West Indies Under-19s West Indies Under-23s

Guest teams in domestic competition	Bahamas Bermuda Canada Cayman Islands Cuba England Lions Hampshire Ireland Kenya Netherlands Turks and Caicos Islands United States

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