Roxborough Sporting Complex

Last updated

Roxborough Sporting Complex
Ground information
Location Roxborough, Trinidad and Tobago
Coordinates 11°14′54″N60°34′55″W / 11.2483°N 60.5820°W / 11.2483; -60.5820
Establishmentc.1995
Team information
Trinidad and Tobago (2000/01)
As of 17 February 2022
Source: Ground profile

Roxborough Sporting Complex is a sporting and cultural complex in Roxborough, Trinidad and Tobago. [1]

Contents

History

Located adjacent to the Windward Road, which is the main road on the eastern side of Tobago, the Complex played host to one first-class cricket match in the 2000–01 Busta Cup between Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies B. [2] Trinidad and Tobago won the match by 79 runs, with Dinanath Ramnarine taking ten-wickets in the match, which included match-winning figures of 6 for 81 in the West Indies B second innings. [3]

See also

Related Research Articles

Ravi Rampaul Ireland cricketer

Ravindranath Rampaul is a Trinidadian cricketer. Rampaul plays for Trinidad and Tobago in domestic cricket and has played in the Indian Premier League for Royal Challengers Bangalore and in English County cricket for Surrey and Derbyshire. He was born at Preysal in Trinidad and Tobago.

Daren Ganga is a Trinidadian former cricketer. He was a right-handed top order batsman and part-time right-arm offbreak bowler. After debuting as a 19-year-old he has found himself in and out of the West Indian cricket team, playing regularly for and at times captaining the West Indies A side when he was not selected. After being named the 2006 West Indies Players' Association 'Test player of the year', Ganga had for the first time in his career cemented his spot in the side and when captain Ramnaresh Sarwan injured his shoulder in the second Test of their 2007 tour of England, the West Indies Cricket Board turned to Ganga to captain the side for the remainder of the series. Ganga has previously had a chance to hone his leadership from captaining the Trinidad and Tobago and the West Indies Under-23 teams. He can also bowl off spin but he is mainly a batsman.

The Regional Four Day Competition, formerly known as Shell Shield and Carib Beer Cup, is the first-class cricket competition in the West Indies. It is administered by the Cricket West Indies. In the 2013-2014 season the winner of the tournament was awarded the WICB President's Trophy while the winners of the knockout competition were awarded the George Headley/Everton Weekes trophy. In a few previous seasons the winners of the tournament were awarded the Headley/Weekes trophy. From the 2017–18, the Competition had been sponsored by Digicel and was known as the Digicel Four Day Championship. In 2019-20, the competition has been known as the West Indies Championship.

West Indies cricket team Multi-national group of players of the bat-and-ball game

The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed the Windies, is a multi-national men's cricket team representing the mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West Indies. The players on this composite team are selected from a chain of fifteen Caribbean nation-states and territories. As of 13 May 2021, the West Indies cricket team is ranked seventh in Tests and ninth in both ODIs and T20Is in the official ICC rankings.

Leon Constantine Romero is an American cricketer. A right-handed batsman, right-arm medium pace bowler and occasional wicket-keeper, he played two One Day Internationals (ODIs) for the United States national cricket team in the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, having previously played first-class and List A cricket for Trinidad & Tobago.

Brian Lara Cricket Academy Multi-purpose stadium in Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago

The Brian Lara Cricket Academy is a multi-purpose stadium in Tarouba, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, that was completed and inaugurated in 2017. It will be used mostly for cricket matches. It is located in southern Trinidad, just outside the heart of the city of San Fernando, beside the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway, about two kilometres southeast of Trinidad and Tobago's former cricket ground at Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre.

Ryan Anthony Austin, born 15 November 1981 in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago, is a West Indies cricketer.

The Salem Oval is a cricket ground located in the village of Salem, Montserrat. The ground was constructed following the destruction of Montserrat's main cricket ground in Plymouth, which was destroyed in the Soufrière Hills eruption of 1997.

Nicholas Pooran is a Trinidadian cricketer who plays for the West Indies cricket team in international cricket and for the Trinidad and Tobago in West Indian domestic matches. He made his international debut for the West Indies in 2016.

Elquemedo Willett Park Sporting complex in the Caribbean

Elquemedo T. Willett Park, known as Grove Park until 2010, is a sporting complex in Charlestown, the capital of the Caribbean island of Nevis. The venue's primary use is as a cricket ground, and it serves as a home ground for both the Nevis and Leeward Islands cricket teams.

Colin Darren Cannonier is an economics professor from Saint Kitts. He is also known for his sporting career, which included cricket for the Leeward Islands and club football in the Saint Kitts Premier Division.

Roy Ashworth Marshall is a former Dominican cricketer whose career in top-level West Indian domestic cricket spanned from 1985 to 2008. His primary team was the Windward Islands, but he also played a single season for the Leeward Islands, as well as representing Dominica at the 2006 and 2008 Stanford 20/20 tournaments.

Imran Haniff Jan is a former Trinidadian cricketer who played for Trinidad and Tobago in West Indian domestic cricket. He was an all-rounder who bowled right-arm off spin and batted left-handed.

Antonio Nigel Mayers is a former Barbadian cricketer who represented both Barbados and West Indies B in West Indian domestic cricket. He was an all-rounder who bowled right-arm medium pace and batted right-handed. He was one of two cricketers from the same family to make their test match cricket debut the other being Kyle Mayers. He made his senior debut for Barbados in October 1998, playing a limited-overs game against the United States during the 1998–99 Red Stripe Bowl. His first-class debut came in January 2000, in the 1999–00 Busta Cup. In the 2001–02 Busta Cup, Mayers was selected to play for West Indies B. He scored two half-centuries during the season, which were his highest scores at first-class level. Mayers' final appearances for Barbados came in the 2006 Stanford 20/20, against Anguilla and Trinidad and Tobago.

Ricky Joseph Christopher is a former Antiguan cricketer who played for the Leeward Islands in West Indian domestic cricket. He played as a right-arm fast bowler.

Zaheer Reaz Ali is a former Trinidadian cricketer who represented Trinidad and Tobago in West Indian domestic cricket. He played as a left-handed middle-order batsman.

Callitos Fernando Lopez is a former Barbadian cricketer who played for Barbadian national side and several other teams in West Indian domestic cricket. He played as a right-arm pace bowler.

The 2000–01 Busta Cup was the 35th edition of what is now the Regional Four Day Competition, the domestic first-class cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). It was played from 4 January to 19 February 2001.

Krishna Arjune is a former Guyanese cricketer who represented Guyana and West Indies B in West Indian domestic cricket. He played as a right-handed opening batsman.

Wilson Road Recreation Ground is a cricket ground located along Wilson Road in Penal, Trinidad and Tobago.

References

  1. World Infrastructure 1995. Sterling Publications. 1995. p. 72.
  2. "First-Class Matches played on Roxborough Sporting Complex, Roxborough (1)" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  3. "Trinidad and Tobago v West Indies B, Busta Cup 2000/01" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 February 2022.

Coordinates: 11°14′54″N60°34′55″W / 11.2483°N 60.5820°W / 11.2483; -60.5820