The Saint Kitts national cricket team represents the Caribbean island of

Saint Kitts Saint Kitts, officially the Saint Christopher Island, is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean. Saint Kitts and the neighbouring island of Nevis cons ...

. The team is organised by the St Kitts Cricket Association (SKCA) which is a member of the

Leeward Islands Cricket Association The Leeward Islands Cricket Association, also known as the Leeward Islands Cricket Board (more often since 2015), is the ruling body for cricket in the following Caribbean islands: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda (founding member in 1913), the Britis ...

(LICA), in turn an affiliate of

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

. Players from Saint Kitts represent the

Leeward Islands cricket team The Leeward Islands cricket team is a first class cricket team representing the member countries of the Leeward Islands Cricket Association, an associate of the West Indies Cricket Board. Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, Monts ...

in West Indian domestic cricket and the

West Indies cricket team The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed the Windies, is a multi-national men's cricket team representing the mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West Indies. The players on ...

in international cricket. Saint Kitts is the larger island in the

Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis (), officially the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, is an island country and microstate consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain ...

– both islands field separate teams.

History

The SKCA was founded in 1913 and in the same year became a founding member of the Leeward Islands Cricket Association, together with Antigua, Dominica and Montserrat. St Kitts played in the Stanford 20/20 tournament in 2006 and 2008. It lost to

Nevis Nevis is a small island in the Caribbean Sea that forms part of the inner arc of the Leeward Islands chain of the West Indies. Nevis and the neighbouring island of Saint Kitts constitute one country: the Federation of Saint Kitts and ...

in the first round of the 2006 tournament and to U.S. Virgin Islands in the preliminary round of the 2008 tournament.

Notable players

References

{{National cricket teams Cricket in Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts (island)