The

Windward Islands 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) unde ...

is a composite team representing the member associations of the

Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control The Windward Islands Cricket Board is the ruling body for cricket in the following West Indian islands: Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica. Although Dominica is geographically part of the Leeward Islands, as it ...

, which itself is a member association of the larger

West Indies Cricket Board Cricket West Indies (CWI) is the governing body for cricket in the West Indies (a sporting confederation of over a dozen mainly Commonwealth Caribbean, English-speaking Caribbean countries and dependencies that once formed the British West Ind ...

. The team incorporates players from several small islands in the

Lesser Antilles The Lesser Antilles ( es, link=no, Antillas Menores; french: link=no, Petites Antilles; pap, Antias Menor; nl, Kleine Antillen) are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. Most of them are part of a long, partially volcanic island arc be ...

, an

island arc Island arcs are long chains of active volcanoes with intense seismic activity found along convergent tectonic plate boundaries. Most island arcs originate on oceanic crust and have resulted from the descent of the lithosphere into the mantle alon ...

in the

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexic ...

. These countries are

Dominica Dominica ( or ; Kalinago: ; french: Dominique; Dominican Creole French: ), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of the island. It is geographical ...

Grenada Grenada ( ; Grenadian Creole French: ) is an island country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself, two smaller islands, Carriacou and Pe ...

Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...

, and the

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines () is an island country in the Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea wh ...

, which, from 1940, made up the

British Windward Islands The British Windward Islands was an administrative grouping of British colonies in the Windward Islands of the West Indies, existing from 1833 until 31 December 1959 and consisting of the islands of Grenada, St Lucia, Saint Vincent, the Grenad ...

colony (sustained until 1958).

is geographically part of the

Leeward Islands french: Îles-Sous-le-Vent , image_name = , image_caption = ''Political'' Leeward Islands. Clockwise: Antigua and Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Saint kitts and Nevis. , image_alt = , locator_map = , location = Caribbean SeaNorth Atlantic Ocean , coor ...

chain, but from 1940 was associated with the Windwards colony both politically and in cricketing terms.

Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate). ...

, although geographically part of the

Windward Islands french: Îles du Vent , image_name = , image_caption = ''Political'' Windward Islands. Clockwise: Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada. , image_alt = , locator_map = , location = Caribbean SeaNorth ...

chain, was made a separate colony in 1885, and competes as a separate team in West Indian domestic cricket. Although matches were played in the islands from the late 19th century, a combined team was not formed until the early 1950s, when semi-annual matches against a representative

team commenced. The Windwards played its first match at first-class level in December 1959, against a touring English side.First-class matches played by Windward Islands
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 February 2013. For the inaugural 1965–66 season of the

Shell Shield The Regional Four Day Competition, formerly known as Shell Shield and Carib Beer Cup, is the first-class cricket competition in the West Indies. It is administered by the Cricket West Indies. In the 2013-2014 season the winner of the tourname ...

, the Leewards and Windwards associations together entered a " Combined Islands" team, an arrangement which persisted on and off until the 1981–82 season, when the associations began to consistently enter separate teams. However, the Windwards still played regularly at first-class level during this time, against other West Indian domestic teams and touring international teams. Since its re-entry into the main domestic first-class competition, the team has played every season, although the team has never won the competition. In total, the Leewards have played 229 first-class matches, winning 48, drawing 66, losing 115, and having eight matches abandoned. Of these, 183 matches were played in the main West Indian domestic competition. A total of 185 players have played at least one first-class match for the team since its debut. __TOC__

Key

List of players

''Statistics only include first-class matches played for the Windward Islands, and are correct as of 14 June 2013:''

List of captains

Twenty-five players have captained the Windwards in at least one first-class match, with Grenadian

Rawl Lewis Rawl Nicholas Lewis (born September 5, 1974) is a West Indian cricketer. Lewis featured as a leg spinner for both the Windward Islands and the Windies in his cricketing career. As of 2016 Lewis holds the role as manager of the West Indies cricket ...

' 69 matches between 2000 and 2009 the most of any one player.The captains for three matches—during th
1960–61
an

seasons—are unaccounted for. Of the team's captains, seven were Dominican, four Grenadian, three Saint Lucian, eight Vincentian, two Barbadian and one (

Wilf Slack Wilfred Norris Slack (12 December 1954 – 15 January 1989) was an English cricketer, who played in three Test matches and two One Day Internationals for England in 1986. A left-handed opening batsman, Slack was a victim of mysterious blacko ...

) English, although Vincentian by birth. , 4 February 1983 , 4 February 1983 , 1 , 0 , 1 , 0 , 0 , 0.00% , , - align=center , 9 , , , 17 January 1986 , 11 April 1987 , 8 , 2 , 1 , 5 , 0 , 25.00% , , - align=center , 10 , , , 29 January 1988 , 29 January 1988 , 1 , 0 , 1 , 0 , 0 , 0.00% , , - align=center , 11 , , , 4 February 1988 , 26 February 1988 , 4 , 0 , 0 , 4 , 0 , 0.00% , , - align=center , 12 , , , 26 January 1989 , 6 March 1992 , 21 , 2 , 9 , 10 , 0 , 9.52% , , - align=center , 13 , , , 29 January 1993 , 5 February 1999 , 22 , 2 , 6 , 14 , 0 , 9.09% , , - align=center , 14 , , , 26 January 1996 , 12 February 1999 , 11 , 2 , 0 , 9 , 0 , 18.18% , , - align=center , 15 , , , 7 January 2000 , 11 April 2009 , 69 , 17 , 20 , 32 , 0 , 24.64% , , - align=center , 16 , , , 4 January 2008 , 11 January 2008 , 2 , 0 , 0 , 2 , 0 , 0.00% , , - align=center , 17 , , , 8 January 2010 , 6 March 2013 , 5 , 2 , 0 , 3 , 0 , 40.00% , , - align=center , 18 , , , 29 January 2010 , 17 March 2017 , 5 , 0 , 1 , 4 , 0 , 0.00% , , - align=center , 19 , , , 4 February 2011 , 7 April 2017 , 50 , 20 , 9 , 21 , 0 , 40.00% , , - align=center , 20 , , , 25 February 2011 , 9 February 2013 , 3 , 1 , 0 , 2 , 0 , 33.33% , Lindon James as captain in first-class matches where team is Windward Islands
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 June 2013. , - align=center , 21 , , , 6 March 2015 , 18 January 2018 , 11 , 3 , 3 , 4 , 1 , 27.27% , , - align=center , 22 , , , 15 April 2017 , 15 April 2017 , 1 , 0 , 0 , 1 , 0 , 0.00% , , - align=center , 23 , , , 6 December 2018 , 7 February 2019 , 7 , 3 , 1 , 3 , 0 , 42.86% , , - align=center , 24 , , , 21 February 2019 , 12 March 2020 , 7 , 1 , 1 , 5 , 0 , 14.29% , , - align=center , 25 , , , 9 January 2020 , 27 February 2020 , 4 , 1 , 2 , 1 , 0 , 25.00% ,

Notes and references

;Notes ;References {{Lists of West Indian cricketers Windward Islands, first-class *First-class