Barbados national cricket team
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Captain: | Ryan Hinds |
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Coach: | Vasbert Drakes |
Colors: | Blue, Gold, Black |
Home ground: | Kensington Oval |
Capacity: | 28,000 |
Four Day wins: | 19 (plus 1 shared) |
WICB Cup wins: | 5 (plus 1 shared) |
Twenty20 wins: | 0 |
Official website: | Barbados Cricket Association |
The Barbadian cricket team is the representative first class cricket team of Barbados.
It does not take part in any international competitions (the 1998 Commonwealth Games tournament being an exception), but rather in inter-regional competitions in the Caribbean, such as the West Indies' Professional Cricket League (which includes Regional Four Day Competition and the NAGICO Regional Super50), and the best players may be selected for the West Indies team, which plays international cricket. The team competes in the Professional Cricket League under the franchise name Barbados Pride.[1]
Barbados has traditionally been the strongest four-day team of the Caribbean islands, winning 19 first class titles outright, and one shared – 12 more than any other team. However, their record in one-day cricket is less impressive, with only four official titles plus the 1972–73 Banks Trophy, whose status is uncertain.
Barbados' dominance in first-class cricket since the Shell Shield was instituted in 1965-6 came in two periods – first in the 1970s, winning five Shell Shield titles in succession (including a shared title with Trinidad and Tobago), and from 1994–95 to 2003–04, when they won six titles out of a possible ten. However, they finished last in the 2004-05 Carib Beer Cup.
The most prominent Barbadian cricketers include George Challenor, Joel Garner, Gordon Greenidge, Wes Hall, Desmond Haynes, Conrad Hunte, Malcolm Marshall, Garry Sobers, Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell.
Contents
Squad
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
No. | Name | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes | |
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Batsmen | ||||||
?? | Martin Nurse | 11 June 1985 | Left-handed | Right arm medium pace | ||
?? | Jonathan Carter | 16 November 1987 | Left-handed | Right arm medium pace | ||
34 | Dale Richards | 16 July 1976 | Right-handed | Right arm medium pace | ||
?? | Kirk Edwards | 3 November 1984 | Right-handed | Right arm off break | ||
?? | Alcindo Holder | 24 September 1982 | Right-handed | Right arm off break | ||
?? | Kenroy Williams | 9 August 1984 | Right-handed | Right arm off break | ||
?? | Kraigg Brathwaite | 1 December 1992 | Right-handed | |||
?? | Jason Haynes | 7 March 1981 | Left-handed | – | ||
All-rounders | ||||||
?? | Ryan Hinds | 17 February 1981 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Captain | |
50 | Dwayne Smith | 12 April 1983 | Right-handed | Right arm medium pace | ||
? | Carlos Brathwaite | 18 July 1988 | Right-handed | Right arm fast-medium | ||
?? | Kevin Stoute | 12 November 1985 | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast | ||
?? | Khalid Springer | 3 July 1982 | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast | ||
Wicket-keepers | ||||||
?? | Patrick Browne | 26 January 1982 | Right-handed | – | ||
?? | Shane Dowrich | 30 October 1991 | Right-handed | – | ||
?? | Rashidi Boucher | 17 July 1990 | Right-handed | – | ||
Bowlers | ||||||
99 | Sulieman Benn | 22 July 1981 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | ||
36 | Tino Best | 26 August 1981 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | ||
24 | Kemar Roach | 30 June 1988 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | ||
20 | Fidel Edwards | 6 February 1982 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | ||
?? | Corey Edwards | 2 September 1983 | Right-handed | Right arm fast-medium | ||
?? | Pedro Collins | 12 August 1976 | Right-handed | Left arm fast-medium | ||
?? | Jason Holder | 5 November 1991 | Right-handed | Right arm fast-medium | ||
?? | Nikolai Charles | 1 October 1986 | Right-handed | Right arm leg break |
Source: List A squad & First-class squad
Honours
- Regional Four Day Competition (20): 1965–66, 1966–67, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1975–76 (shared), 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1990–91, 1994–95, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2006–07
- Domestic one-day competition (6): 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1987–88, 2002–03, 2010–11 (shared)
- Inter-Colonial Tournament (defunct) (11): 1891–92, 1893–94, 1897–98, 1899–1900, 1905–06, 1908–09, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1926–27
See also
- Barbados Cricket Association (BCA)
- Barbados Tridents
- List of international cricketers from Barbados
- List of Barbadian cricketers
- Sport in Barbados