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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.
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






Notable players



Prominent cricketers who have represented the Windward Islands include:

Mike Findlay
Winston Davis
Nixon McLean
Cameron Cuffy
Deighton Butler
Sunil Ambris
Kesrick Williams
Obed McCoy
Rawl Lewis
Junior Murray
Devon Smith
Andre Fletcher
Daren Sammy
Johnson Charles
Lockhart Sebastien
Irvine Shillingford
Shane Shillingford
Adam Sanford




Honours


Domestic one-day competition (4): 1988–89, 2000–01, 2012–13, 2017-18




Grounds


The Windward Islands team has played at the following venues

Arnos Vale Stadium in Kingstown, Saint Vincent
National Cricket Stadium in Grenada
Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in Gros Islet, Saint Lucia.
Windsor Park in Roseau, Dominica
Mindoo Philip Park in Castries, Saint Lucia
Tanteen Recreation Ground in Grenada
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.




See also


List of international cricketers from the Windward Islands
List of Windward Islands first-class cricketers
Dominica national cricket team
Grenada national cricket team
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines national cricket team
Saint Lucia national cricket team




References






External links


Cricinfo
CricketArchive
Official website

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