Guyana national cricket team

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Guyana National Cricket Team
Flag of Guyana.svg
Captain: Assad Fudadin
Coach: Mark Harper
Colors: Green yellow red
Founded: 1965
Home ground: Providence Stadium
Capacity: 15,000
Four Day wins: 5 (plus 1 shared)
WICB Cup wins: 7 (plus 2 shared)
CT20 wins: 1

The Guyana cricket team is the representative first class cricket team of Guyana.

It does not take part in any international competitions, 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 Guyana Jaguars.[1]

Guyana has won the domestic first class title five times since its inception in 1965–66, which is the third highest amount of wins, behind Barbados and Jamaica.

In one-day cricket, Guyana reached the final of the domestic competition four times in the early 2000s, but the last victory was in 2005–06. They have won the KFC Cup a total of nine times – including two shared titles – which is the most by any competing team, Trinidad and Tobago coming closest with seven (including one shared).

The cricket team has been known under two other names – they were first known as Demerara when they played in the first first-class cricket game of the West Indies, against Barbados in 1865, and they retained that name until 1899, when it was finally changed to British Guiana (they had also played first-class cricket in 1895 as British Guiana). The name of British Guiana stuck until 1965–66, when the nation and thus the team changed to its current name. From 1971 until the mid-1980s two regional sides competed in an annual first class match for the Guystac Trophy.

The list of prominent cricketers who have played for Guyana includes Basil Butcher, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Colin Croft, Roy Fredericks, Lance Gibbs, Roger Harper, Carl Hooper, Alvin Kallicharran, Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd and Ramnaresh Sarwan.

Roger Harper, cricketer turned coach

Grounds

Guyana's main home ground is the Bourda ground in Georgetown, where they have played 131 of their 181 first class home games, and which has also hosted 30 Test matches with the West Indies. Other grounds include the Albion Sports Complex in the Berbice region, which has hosted 24 Guyana matches and five ODIs, and from 1997–98 Guyana began to use the Enmore Recreation Ground, where they have played five games. In 2004–05 they also played a match at Hampton Court in Essequibo, their first first-class match there in 17 seasons.

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No. Name Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes
Batsmen
6 Shivnarine Chanderpaul (1974-08-16) 16 August 1974 (age 49) Left-handed Right arm leg break
10 Travis Dowlin (1977-02-24) 24 February 1977 (age 47) Right-handed Right arm off break
25 Jonathan Foo (1990-09-11) 11 September 1990 (age 33) Right-handed Right arm leg break
53 Ramnaresh Sarwan (1980-06-23) 23 June 1980 (age 43) Right-handed Right arm leg break
65 Sewnarine Chattergoon (1981-04-03) 3 April 1981 (age 42) Left-handed Right arm leg break
?? Steven Jacobs (1988-09-13) 13 September 1988 (age 35) Right-handed Right arm off break
?? Assad Fudadin (1985-08-01) 1 August 1985 (age 38) Left-handed Right arm medium-fast Captain
?? Richard Ramdeen (1988-02-16) 16 February 1988 (age 36) Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
?? Gajanand Singh (1987-10-03) 3 October 1987 (age 36) Left-handed Left arm medium pace
?? Leon Johnson (1987-08-08) 8 August 1987 (age 36) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
All-rounders
2 Royston Crandon (1983-05-31) 31 May 1983 (age 40) Right-handed Right arm off break
28 Narsingh Deonarine (1983-08-16) 16 August 1983 (age 40) Left-handed Right arm off break
54 Esuan Crandon (1981-12-17) 17 December 1981 (age 42) Right-handed Right-arm fast
71 Lennox Cush (1974-12-12) 12 December 1974 (age 49) Right-handed Right arm off break
90 Christopher Barnwell (1987-01-06) 6 January 1987 (age 37) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast
Wicket-keepers
11 Derwin Christian (1983-05-09) 9 May 1983 (age 40) Right-handed
Bowlers
20 Devendra Bishoo (1985-11-06) 6 November 1985 (age 38) Right-handed Right arm leg break
33 Paul Wintz (1986-03-07) 7 March 1986 (age 38) Right-handed Right arm fast-medium
?? Brandon Bess (1987-12-13) 13 December 1987 (age 36) Right-handed Right arm fast-medium

Sources: Cricinfo, Guyana Cricket Board

Most runs for Guyana

Player Runs Average Centuries
Shivnarine Chanderpaul 4903 70.04 16 [1]
Clayton Lambert 4680 48.75 14 [2]
Roy Fredericks 4344 70.06 15 [3]
Carl Hooper 3372 58.13 13 [4]
Clive Lloyd 3102 66.00 12 [5]

Honours

See also

References