Carlton Cricket Club is a cricket

Cricket

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 club in Barbados

Barbados

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, competing in the Barbados Cricket Association

Barbados Cricket Association

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 Division 1 championship. The club is based in Black Rock, north of Bridgetown

Bridgetown

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 and its home ground is the Desmond Haynes

Desmond Haynes

Desmond Leo Haynes is a West Indian cricketer and cricket coach. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1991. Haynes formed a formidable partnership with Gordon Greenidge for the West Indies cricket team in Test cricket during 1980s. Between them they managed 16 century stands, four in excess of...

 Oval. Carlton was founded on 1 April 1940 as a club for "lower middle income whites and near whites for whom there was no space in Pickwick

Pickwick Cricket Club

Pickwick Cricket Club is a Barbados cricket club. The club was founded on 23 November 1882, the second oldest cricket club in Barbados after Wanderers Cricket Club...

 and Wanderers

Wanderers Cricket Club

Wanderers Cricket Club is a Barbadian cricket club. The club plays in the Barbados Cricket Association Upper Intermediate Division, having been relegated from Division 1 in 2010....

 [cricket clubs]". Changes in Barbadian society meant that from the 1960s onwards, the membership of Carlton gradually came to reflect the general Barbadian population.

A multi-sport club, Carlton also supports football, netball

Netball

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 and volleyball teams. The club motto is Labor omnia vincit

Labor omnia vincit

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Notable cricketers from Carlton include:

• Tony Cozier
  Tony Cozier
  Anthony "Tony" Cozier has been a cricket writer and commentator for West Indian cricket since 1958.Cozier is the son of Barbados journalist, Jimmy Cozier and he studied journalism at Carleton University, Ottawa...
  
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• Desmond Haynes
  Desmond Haynes
  Desmond Leo Haynes is a West Indian cricketer and cricket coach. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1991. Haynes formed a formidable partnership with Gordon Greenidge for the West Indies cricket team in Test cricket during 1980s. Between them they managed 16 century stands, four in excess of...
  
  , the club president in the 2000s.
• Corey Collymore
  Corey Collymore
  Corey Dalanelo Collymore is a Barbadian cricketer whose speciality is seam bowling. He has represented the West Indies team in both Tests and ODIs cricket. In a side that so often chopped and changed he became one of their most experienced bowlers...
  
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• Dale Richards
  Dale Richards
  Dale Maurice Richards is a West Indian international cricketer who plays first class cricket for Barbados.A right-handed batsman, Richards debuted in 1999/00...
  
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