Windward Islands cricket team Last updated February 18, 2025 Multinational cricket team
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 one of the Leeward Islands , but as it was part of the Windward Islands colony from 1940 until independence, 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 Regional Four Day Competition and the Regional Super50 , 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. The Windwards have won a sum of four regional one day titles. With prominent cricketers who've played for the Windward Islands including Sunil Ambris , Cameron Cuffy , Casper Davis , Winston Davis , Delorn Johnson , Obed McCoy , Nixon McLean , Junior Murray , Darren Sammy , Shane Shillingford , Devon Smith , Wilf Slack and Kesrick Williams .
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 four one-day titles in 37 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 Name Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes Batsmen Devon Smith (1981-10-21 ) 21 October 1981 (age 43) Left-handed Right-arm off spin Desron Maloney (1991-05-05 ) 5 May 1991 (age 33) Right-handed - Kirk Edwards (1984-11-03 ) 3 November 1984 (age 40) Left-handed Right-arm off spin List A Captain Johann Jeremiah (1999-02-12 ) 12 February 1999 (age 26) Right-handed Right-arm off spin All-rounders Kavem Hodge (1993-02-21 ) 21 February 1993 (age 31) Right-handed Left-arm orthodox Keron Cottoy (1989-11-14 ) 14 November 1989 (age 35) Left-handed Right-arm leg spin Alick Athanaze (1998-12-07 ) 7 December 1998 (age 26) Left-handed Right-arm off spin Bhaskar Yadram (1999-09-18 ) 18 September 1999 (age 25) Left-handed Right-arm medium Ryan John (1997-09-25 ) 25 September 1997 (age 27) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Wicket-keepers Emmanuel Stewart (1999-08-23 ) 23 August 1999 (age 25) Right-handed - Andre Fletcher (1987-11-28 ) 28 November 1987 (age 37) Right-handed - Sunil Ambris (1993-03-23 ) 23 March 1993 (age 31) Right-handed - First-class Captain Spin Bowlers Shane Shillingford (1983-02-22 ) 22 February 1983 (age 41) Right-handed Right-arm off spin Larry Edwards (1995-02-16 ) 16 February 1995 (age 30) Left-handed Left-arm orthodox Kenneth Dember Right-arm off spin Pace Bowlers Shermon Lewis (1995-10-21 ) 21 October 1995 (age 29) Right-handed Right-arm fast Preston McSween (1995-08-15 ) 15 August 1995 (age 29) Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast Josh Thomas Right-arm medium Ray Jordan (1994-10-21 ) 21 October 1994 (age 30) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
Notable players Prominent cricketers who have represented the Windward Islands include:
Grounds The Windward Islands team has played at the following venues
The Mindoo Philip Park has not seen any first-class cricket since 2001, and has been replaced by the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in Gros Islet .
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