The Barbados national cricket team is the national
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team of
Barbados, organised by the
Barbados Cricket Association (BCA). Barbados is a member of the
West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), which is a member of the
International Cricket Council (ICC) in its own right, and Barbadians play internationally for the
West Indies cricket team.
Barbados 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
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, such as the Professional Cricket League (which includes the
Regional Four Day Competition and the
Regional Super50). The team competes in the Professional Cricket League under the franchise name Barbados Pride.
The most prominent Barbadian cricketers include
George Challenor,
Joel Garner
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,
Gordon Greenidge,
Wes Hall,
Desmond Haynes,
Conrad Hunte,
Malcolm Marshall,
Garry Sobers,
Clyde Walcott,
Everton Weekes and
Frank Worrell.
History
Colonial era
Cricket in Barbados dates from at least the late 18th century, with the
Barbados cricket buckle depicting a slave playing cricket around 1780.
["The jewel of the Caribbean"](_blank)
– ESPNcricinfo, 17 March 2006. Retrieved 20 January 2016. In February 1865, Barbados took part in what was later designated the inaugural
first-class match in the West Indies, hosting Demerara (now
Guyana
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) at the
Garrison Savannah
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in
Bridgetown.
[First-class matches played by Barbados](_blank)
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 January 2016. Barbados won the match by 138 runs, but lost the return fixture, played in
Georgetown later in the year, by two wickets. In September 1891, the
Inter-Colonial Tournament was inaugurated, which saw Barbados, British Guiana, and
Trinidad engaged in regular competition for the first time. The tournament was played every two seasons until the 1907–08 season, and annually until the 1938–39 season (with a gap during World War I).
Barbados won the tournament 11 out of the 28 times it was played, and only failed to make the final on five occasions.
In January 1888, Barbados played their first match against a team that was not another British colony in the West Indies, appearing in a fixture against an
amateur
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team representing the United States. That match was not classed as first-class, but the 1890s saw several tours from English sides that were granted first-class status.
In 1896, Barbados also played against
Jamaica for the first time, winning by an innings and eight runs. A representative West Indies team was organised for the first time in 1897, to play
a touring English team led by
Arthur Priestley. The inaugural team included three Barbadians –
Harold Austin,
Donald McAuley, and
Clifford Goodman. Austin, a future speaker of the
Barbados House of Assembly, later became the first Barbadian to captain the West Indies, doing so in January 1902 against
another English team, led by
Richard Bennet.
The West Indies played their first
Test matches on
a 1928 tour of England, with five members of the 17-man touring party being Barbadians. The most experienced Barbadian on tour was the 40-year-old
George Challenor, who has been called the "first of the great West Indian batsmen". The first Barbadian to captain the West Indies in a Test match was
Teddy Hoad, who did so when England toured
during the 1929–30 season. That match was played at Bridgetown's
Kensington Oval, and was the first Test to be held in the West Indies. When the West Indies toured Australia for the first time
during the 1930–31 season, another Barbadian,
Herman Griffith, became the first bowler to dismiss
Don Bradman
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for a Test match
duck.
In February 1946, two Barbadian batsmen,
Clyde Walcott and
Frank Worrell, set a new record for the highest
partnership in first-class cricket, putting on 574 not out against Trinidad. Walcott, Worrell, and another Barbadian,
Everton Weekes, all made their Test debuts during
England's 1947–48 tour of the West Indies. The trio eventually became known as the "three Ws", and as "one of the greatest middle-order line-ups the game has ever seen", were key members of the West Indies from the late 1940s through to the late 1950s. All three eventually received knighthoods, and were inaugural inductees into the
ICC Hall of Fame in 2009. Worrell was especially esteemed as the first black man to captain the West Indies, doing so on the team's
1960–61 tour of Australia. He was succeeded as captain by another Barbadian,
Garfield Sobers, whose 365 not out against
Pakistan in 1958 set a record for the highest Test score that was not passed for another 36 years.
Post-independence
Barbados gained full independence on 30 November 1966, having earlier been a part of the short-lived
West Indies Federation (between 1958 and 1962).
The inaugural season of the
Shell Shield had been played earlier in the year (and won by Barbados), marking the return of a formal first-class structure for the first time since 1939, when the last Inter-Colonial Tournament was played. In 1973, Barbados also won
the inaugural edition of what is now the
Regional Super50, the West Indian
limited-overs competition. Barbados were the dominant team throughout the early years of the Shell Shield, winning 12 out of the first 20 editions (including five consecutively from the 1975–76 season to the 1979–80 season).
In the one-day format, Barbados won the first three editions of the tournament, but did not secure a fourth title until the 1987–88 season, and a fifth title until the
2002–03 season.
The West Indian teams that won the
1975
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and
1979 World Cups included three and four Barbadians, respectively.
Joel Garner
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, who took a five-wicket haul against
England in
the 1979 final, was a Barbadian, as was
Malcolm Marshall, who was in the squad but did not play any matches. Marshall, who had only made his Test debut the previous year, was one of the world's leading fast bowlers during the 1980s, and established a new record for the most Test wickets taken by a West Indian (since beaten by
Courtney Walsh). The West Indian opening batsmen throughout the 1980s were
Gordon Greenidge and
Desmond Haynes, both Barbadians. Greenidge and Haynes opened the batting together in 148 innings between 1978 and 1991, and put on 6,482 runs together, both records for opening batsmen that have yet to be beaten.
At the
1998 Commonwealth Games
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in
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, Barbados and the other West Indian teams participated individually in
the cricket tournament, held for the first and only time. Barbados easily defeated
Northern Ireland and
Bangladesh, but lost to
South Africa in their final group-stage match to miss out on qualification for the semi-finals. The team's participation in the Commonwealth Games coincided with a period of superiority at domestic first-class level – from the 1994–95 season through to the 2003–04 season, the team won six out of ten titles.
Internationally,
Floyd Reifer captained the West Indies in
a 2009 Test series against Bangladesh, the first Barbadian to do so since Desmond Haynes
in 1990. However, his appointment was only temporary, coming during a players' strike.
Jason Holder, who was appointed Test captain in 2015, is the most recent Barbadian to serve as captain of the West Indies.
Current squad
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
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Regional Four Day Competition
Venues
The primary venue for Barbados is
Bridgetown's
Kensington Oval, which has a capacity of 28,000 people. Kensington Oval is the only ground in the country to have hosted international cricket (
Tests,
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s, or
Twenty20 Internationals), and was the venue for
the final of the
2007 World Cup. An additional nine grounds have hosted Barbados home matches (with either
first-class or
List A
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status), listed below in order of first use:
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Garrison Savannah
The Garrison Savannah in the country of Barbados, is a horse racing venue located within the Garrison Historic Area, just outside the capital-city Bridgetown. A clockwise grass course, the Garrison Savannah is known internationally for the annual ...
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Bridgetown (1865)
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Bay Pasture
Bay Pasture was a cricket ground in Bridgetown, Barbados.
History
The ground was established when the Wanderers Cricket Club was formed in 1877, with the club playing on a small ground on the Bay Pasture Estate; it possessed a small pavilion a ...
, Bridgetown (1883)
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Desmond Haynes Oval
The Desmond Haynes Oval (formerly known as the Carlton Club Ground) is a cricket and football ground in Bridgetown, Barbados.
History
The Oval was established in 1940, with the foundation of the Carlton Club to cater for the lower-middle clas ...
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Black Rock (1996)
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Windward Park
Windward Park is a cricket ground in Lucas Street, Barbados.
History
Located in the village of Lucas Street, the ground is the home venue for Windward Cricket Club, which was founded in the 1890s to cater for rural White Barbadians. For many ...
,
Lucas Street
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Mount Gay North Stars Cricket Ground
Mount Gay North Stars Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in Crab Hill, Barbados.
History
Located in the village of northern Barbados village Crab Hill, the ground first played host to representative cricket when Barbados played Jamaica in a ...
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Crab Hill (2003)
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3Ws Oval
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Banks Sports and Cultural Club
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Wildey (2005)
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Cable and Wireless Sports Club Ground, Wildey (2005)
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Police Sports Club Ground
The Police Sports Club Ground (also known as Weymouth Playing Field) is a cricket ground in Bridgetown, Barbados.
History
Plans were made to establish cricket fields at Weymouth in 1941, with them being completed by 1944. The ground has been ...
,
Weymouth (2005)
One other ground in Barbados has hosted first-class cricket without hosting any home games for Barbados –
Foursquare Park
Foursquare Park is a cricket ground in Highland, Barbados.
History
As a result of the upgrading of the Kensington Oval for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, Pickwick Cricket Club were forced to vacate their historic home. The club developed a new h ...
, in
Highland.
Foursquare Park, St Philip
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
Honours
* Regional Four Day Competition (23): 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, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2019-20
* Domestic one-day competition (8): 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1987–88, 2002–03, 2010–11
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* Inter-Colonial Tournament (defunct) (11): 1891–92, 1893–94, 1897–98, 1899–1900, 1905–06
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, 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
* Sport in Barbados
* List of Barbadian representative cricketers
Notes
References
Further reading
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External links
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1865 establishments in Barbados