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Cricket
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team that represented the cricket-playing islands of the Lesser Antilles
Lesser Antilles
The Lesser Antilles are a long, partly volcanic island arc in the Western Hemisphere. Most of its islands form the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, with the remainder located in the southern Caribbean just north of South America...
, excluding Barbados
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
and Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
who fielded their own teams. They played in 13 Shell Shield tournaments from 1965-66 to 1980-81, when they won their first title and were subsequently disbanded into Leeward Islands
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, a regional association which again is part of the West Indies Cricket Board. Contrary to the normal English definition of the Leeward Islands, Dominica is not...
and Windward Islands
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 regional tournament....
. Those two teams had first-class status before 1980-81, but competed together in the Shell Shield.
History
The Combined Islands played 54 first-class games, winning 11, drawing 19 and losing 24. 52 of those games were in the Shell Shield tournament, with the other two games both coming in the 1961-62 season - a Pentangular Tournament preliminary round loss to British Guiana, was followed by a home defeat to the touring Indian sideIndian cricket team
The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....
that same season. From then on, the team only existed as an entity for the Shell Shield, with the British Leeward Islands
British Leeward Islands
The British Leeward Islands was a British colony existing between 1833 and 1960, and consisting of Antigua, Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla and Dominica....
and British Windward Islands
British Windward Islands
The British Windward Islands was a British colony existing between 1833 and 1960 and consisting of the islands of Grenada, St Lucia, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines, Barbados , Tobago , and Dominica, previously included in the...
fielding independent teams against touring squads, and also playing first-class matches between each other.
Inaugural Shell Shield
Four seasons later, the team was among the five that played for the inaugural Shell Shield. After two draws against Jamaica and Barbados, the team went down to British Guiana, before winning the last game against Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago cricket team
The Trinidad and Tobago cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago.The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup, with the best players selected for the West Indies...
to finish third in the table and record their first victory.
It took a further four seasons before the Combined Islands returned to the Shell Shield - the Leeward and Windward teams played games, but the matches they played did not count for points. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/Tables/Shell_Shield_1966-67.html The Combined team was back for the 1969-70 tournament, though, and duly lost all four games, with no player averaging more than 26 with the bat. This was the first season that the Shillingford cousins - Irvine
Irvine Shillingford
Irvine Theodore Shillingford is a former West Indian cricketer who played four Tests and two ODIs in 1977 and 1978. He also played a further 88 first class games, 49 of them for the Combined Islands, whom he represented from its inception in 1961 until the dissolution of the team in 1981...
and Grayson
Grayson Shillingford
Grayson Cleophas Shillingford was a West Indian cricketer who played in seven Tests from 1969 to 1972. He was born in Macoucherie, Dominica and was the cousin of Irvine Shillingford, who also played Test cricket for the West Indies....
, who both represented West Indies at Test
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
level - played for the Combined Islands and the two went on to play most Shell Shield matches for the Combined Islands together until 1976-77, Irving scoring more than 2,500 runs while Grayson took nearly 100 wickets for the team.
Building a team
In 1970-71, the Combined Islands registered their first win in five years, but still finished last behind Guyana - despite beating Guyana by 50 runs, the team lost their other three matches, and Guyana finished two points ahead. The 1971-72 season went by without a single win, although they gained a lead on first innings, but in 1972-73 the Combined Islands beat Jamaica to finish fourth after Elquemedo WillettElquemedo Willett
Elquemedo Tonito Willett is a former West Indian cricketer who played in five Tests from 1973 to 1974.During New Zealand's tour of the West Indies in 1972, Willet was considered the best of the many left-arm finger-spinners the New Zealanders faced.Willett's nephew Stuart Williams has played many...
took six for 40 in the second innings - which stood as a team record for two seasons - to help bowl Jamaica out for 132. By this time, most of the players that were to become team regulars for the remainder of its history had debuted - in addition to the Shillingford cousins, there was Vance Amory
Vance Amory
Vance Winkworth Amory was the Premier of Nevis from 2 June 1992 to 11 July 2006. He founded and lead the Concerned Citizens' Movement , now chaired by Stedmond Tross. He was a West Indies cricketer who played for the Combined Islands and the Leeward Islands...
, Jim Allen
Jim Allen (cricketer)
James Charles "Jim" Allen is a former Montserratian first-class cricketer who represented the World Series Cricket West Indians and is considered the greatest ever Montserrat sportsperson....
, Mike Findlay
Mike Findlay
Thaddeus Michael Findlay, born 19 October 1943, at Troumaca, Saint Vincent, is a former West Indian cricketer who played in ten Tests from 1969 to 1973 as a batsman and wicketkeeper....
, Norbert Philip, Viv Richards
Viv Richards
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE is a former West Indian cricketer. Better known by his second name, Vivian or, more popularly, simply as Viv or King Viv Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, by a 100-member panel of experts, along with Sir Donald...
(who went on to play 121 Tests for the West Indies), Andy Roberts, Lockhart Sebastien
Lockhart Sebastien
Lockhart Christopher Sebastien in Dominica. He was a West Indies cricketer who played for the Combined Islands and the Windward Islands in the 1970's and the 1980's. He is the father of current Windward Island cricketer Liam Sebastien....
and the aforementioned Willett, who all played for the Combined Islands until 1978, and four of them until the end in 1981. However, the team still failed to win more than one match a season. In 1973-74 they lost three of the four games and finished last again, despite Roberts and Philip both taking more than three wickets a match at a bowling average less than 20. That season also included their only List A game, a five-run win over the touring England
English cricket team
The England and Wales cricket team is a cricket team which represents England and Wales. Until 1992 it also represented Scotland. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board , having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club from 1903 until the end...
side representing MCC
Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...
. The Islands batted first, making 204 for 6 in 50 overs with 102 from Jim Allen and 78 from Livingstone Sargeant
Livingstone Sargeant
Livingstone Clement Sargeant, born 15 April 1947 in Cotton Ground, Nevis, is a former West Indian cricketer who played for the Combined Islands and the Leeward Islands in the 1960s and the 1970s.-References:...
. Dennis Amiss
Dennis Amiss
Dennis Leslie Amiss MBE was an English cricketer and cricket administrator.Amiss suffered a serious back injury whilst playing soccer in his teenage years, which entailed him starting each day of his sporting life undergoing stretching routines to loosen up.He played cricket for both Warwickshire...
made 114 for the tourists, but Grayson Shillingford (six overs for 7) and Andy Roberts (ten overs for 27) limited the scoring. Three wickets fell for 12 near the end, and the MCC finished on 199 for 6.
Title challengers
The next season, they got their best position in the Shell Shield thus far, going unbeaten through the season and also recording their first away win - a 163-run win over Barbados, their highest win yet, which also included a second-innings century from Allen and a new record bowling analysisBowling analysis
In the sport of cricket, a bowling analysis usually refers to a notation summarising a bowler's performance in terms of overs bowled, how many of those overs are maidens , total runs conceded and number of wickets taken...
of six for 35 from Roberts - who finished the season with 25 wickets at a bowling average of 12.72. Allen and Richards also averaged above 50 with the bat, and after three unbeaten matches initially they set themselves up for a potential trophy win. A first innings win or an outright win in their final match at the Queen's Park Oval
Queen's Park Oval
Queen's Park Oval, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, is currently the largest capacity cricket ground in the West Indies and has hosted more Test matches than any other ground in the Caribbean. It also hosted a number of matches in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. It is privately owned by the...
in Trinidad and Tobago would have seen them take the trophy, but they finished with a 30-run first innings deficit, and after being set a target of 283 to win their openers Sebastien and Michael Camacho
Michael Camacho
Michael Stephen Camacho, born 4 March 1953 in Antigua, is a former West Indian cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for the Combined Islands and the Leeward Islands cricket teams.-References:...
put on 101 for the first wicket. Trinidad's bowlers came back, and after two run outs and three wickets from Imtiaz Ali and Raphick Jumadeen
Raphick Jumadeen
Raphick Rasif Jumadeen is a former West Indian cricketer who played in twelve Tests from 1972 to 1979....
the Combined Islands were 276 for 9. Captain Findlay and number 11 Hugh Gore
Hugh Gore
Hugh Edmond Ivor Gore was a West Indian cricketer. A right-handed batsman and left-arm fast-medium bowler, he took 57 career first-class wickets at an average of 33.63...
added six for the final wicket before time ran out - thus, the scores were tied at the end of the match, the match was drawn since the Islands had not lost the final wicket (in which case it would have been a tie
The result in cricket
The result in a game of cricket may be a win for one of the two teams playing, a draw or a tie. In the case of a limited overs game, the game can also end with no result...
) and the Shell Shield title went to Guyana instead of the islands.
The next season saw them fall back to fourth place, however, with none of the four matches seeing more than 325 overs of play in four days as the Combined Islands drew all four games - with two ending before the first innings were completed. Irvine Shillingford
Irvine Shillingford
Irvine Theodore Shillingford is a former West Indian cricketer who played four Tests and two ODIs in 1977 and 1978. He also played a further 88 first class games, 49 of them for the Combined Islands, whom he represented from its inception in 1961 until the dissolution of the team in 1981...
still managed to hit 257 runs in his three innings, averaging 85.66 with the bat. 1976-77 saw improvement in the table again, as they once again fought for the title - they were tied with Barbados on points before the very last game, but after conceding four 50+ scores - including 113 from David Murray
David Murray (cricketer)
David Anthony Murray is a former West Indian cricketer who played in nineteen Tests and ten ODIs from 1973 to 1982.Murray, a son of the great West Indian batsman Everton Weekes often courted controversy...
- and a total of 511, the team surrendered a first-innings deficit of 276 despite 124 from Richards, and though Allen made 101 in the second innings and Philip took three for 15 to boost his seasonal wicket-tally to 20, Barbados made it to the target of 53 with six wickets to spare. Thus the Islands finished second in the table, tied with Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago cricket team
The Trinidad and Tobago cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago.The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup, with the best players selected for the West Indies...
.
The Combined Islands finished second for the third time in four seasons in 1977-78, but this time they were in last place before the final round, when they beat Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
by seven wickets to avoid the last place and propel themselves up the table to a shared second place with Jamaica. All-rounder Norbert Philip took more than 20 wickets for the second year running, and also hit 240 runs, while off spin
Off spin
Off spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket which is bowled by an off spinner, a right-handed spin bowler who uses his or her fingers and/or wrist to spin the ball from a right-handed batsman's off side to the leg side...
ner Derick Parry
Derick Parry
Derick Recaldo Parry played 12 Tests and six One Day Internationals for the West Indies....
took a team record seven for 100 in the first innings of a drawn game against champions Barbados. The following season, the Combined Islands were once again on the heels of Barbados, trailing by two points before the final game in Trinidad. Despite a 109-run lead after four half-centuries and six for 90 from Parry, Combined Islands were bowled out for 181 in the second innings, and David Murray put on 27 with Inshan Ali
Inshan Ali
Inshan Ali was a West Indian cricketer who played in 12 Tests from 1971 to 1977.Born in Preysal, Trinidad and Tobago, of Indian descent, Ali was a left-arm unorthodox spin bowler who made his first-class cricket debut for South Trinidad against North Trinidad on 15 April 1966, aged just 16 years...
to give Trinidad and Tobago the win and the second place in the table.
The next season saw the Combined Islands return to the runners-up spot, after winning two games in a season for the first time, and before the final game in Barbados they trailed their hosts by 11 points after a drawn game in Trinidad two weeks earlier. After being put in the field by the Barbados captain, Combined Islands batted to a total of 257, before centuries from Emmerson Trotman
Emmerson Trotman
Emmerson Nathaniel Trotman is a former West Indies cricketer who played for the Rebel West Indies side in South Africa.Born in Paradise Village, Christ Church, Barbados, Trotman also played for Barbados and Border in South Africa...
and Thelston Payne
Thelston Payne
Thelston Rodney O'Neale Payne is a former West Indian cricketer.He played only one Test and seven One Day Internationals for the West Indies...
helped Barbados to a total of 555 - with Viv Richards getting the best bowling returns for the Islands with two for 71. However, he only made 3 with the bat, as his team were bowled out for 279 - losing by an innings and 19 runs, and finishing second again. Earlier on in the season, Parry had beaten his own best-innings bowling record, with nine for 76 against Jamaica, in a match where he took 15 for 101 - a record for all West Indies domestic teams which stood for 16 years. Parry finished the season with 25 wickets.
Shell Shield victory, and dissolution
Finally, after four runner-up spots in the preceding six seasons, it was the Combined Islands' turn to win the Shell Shield trophy in 1980-81. After starting with a draw in Trinidad, the Combined Islands won both home games - first an innings win over Jamaica, in which Andy Roberts took 11 for 101 and completed a hat-trick, and then a 165-run win over Guyana which sealed the trophy with one game to play - against Barbados, who were 35 points behind. Despite going down by an innings and 16 runs, the Combined Islands finished 12 points ahead of Barbados - who had been docked nine of those points due to a slow over rate. The Test stars Richards and Roberts topped the batting and bowling tables respectively - Richards making 323 runs despite being dismissed for 13 and 4 by Barbados, while Roberts took 24 wickets in the three games not against Barbados - and one for 48 against the Bajans.The innings defeat was the end of the Combined Islands team. The West Indies Cricket Board
West Indies Cricket Board
The West Indies Cricket Board is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in the West Indies...
made the decision to split the team into Windward and Leeward Islands, and the first match of the 1981-82 Shell Shield was played between these two teams - the Leeward Islands, whose team included 10 players who had played for the Combined team the previous season, won by 57 runs, and has continued to be the most successful of the two sides with three first-class titles. The Windwards are yet to win a single one.
Batting and fielding
| Batting (cricket) In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke... and fielding Fielding (cricket) Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the batsman, in such a way as to either limit the number of runs that the batsman scores or get the batsman out by catching the ball in flight or running the batsman out.Cricket fielding position... statistics Statistics Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments.... Qualification: 10 matches |
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| Name | Batting hand | Career | Mat | Inn Innings An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is... |
NO Not out In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress... |
Runs Run (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement... |
HS | Avg Batting average Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :... |
100 | 50 | Ct | St |
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| Right | 1961-1981 | 49 | 83 | 5 | 2788 | 120 | 35.74 | 6 | 16 | 54 | ||
| Right | 1971-1981 | 30 | 50 | 1 | 1698 | 161 | 34.65 | 4 | 9 | 27 | ||
| Right | 1971-1981 | 26 | 49 | 2 | 1661 | 168* | 35.34 | 5 | 9 | 18 | ||
| Right | 1972-1980 | 32 | 57 | 6 | 1611 | 95 | 31.58 | 0 | 13 | 27 | ||
| Right | 1970-1980 | 31 | 50 | 6 | 1143 | 99 | 25.97 | 0 | 10 | 13 | ||
| Right | 1973-1980 | 26 | 38 | 4 | 1016 | 131 | 29.88 | 2 | 4 | 12 | ||
| Right | 1969-1978 | 36 | 60 | 6 | 951 | 68* | 17.61 | 0 | 2 | 67 | 15 | |
| Right | 1976-1981 | 20 | 29 | 2 | 812 | 96 | 30.07 | 0 | 6 | 22 | ||
| Right | 1970-1974 | 15 | 30 | 0 | 664 | 80 | 22.13 | 0 | 3 | 6 | ||
| Right | 1977-1981 | 13 | 24 | 2 | 655 | 57 | 29.77 | 0 | 3 | 15 | ||
| n/a | 1961-1971 | 14 | 27 | 1 | 628 | 72 | 24.15 | 0 | 5 | 7 | ||
| Right | 1969-1981 | 17 | 33 | 1 | 603 | 64 | 18.84 | 0 | 3 | 11 | ||
| Right | 1970-1981 | 26 | 44 | 8 | 483 | 63 | 13.41 | 0 | 2 | 10 | ||
| Right | 1972-1976 | 13 | 21 | 2 | 439 | 113* | 23.10 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Left | 1970-1980 | 33 | 53 | 13 | 421 | 47 | 10.52 | 0 | 0 | 30 | ||
| Left | 1969-1979 | 31 | 51 | 15 | 377 | 42 | 10.47 | 0 | 0 | 13 | ||
| Right | 1974-1978 | 14 | 22 | 3 | 365 | 65 | 19.21 | 0 | 2 | 12 | ||
| Right | 1974-1977 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 221 | 67 | 22.10 | 0 | 2 | 6 | ||
| Right | 1978-1981 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 201 | 37* | 18.27 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 |
Bowling
| Bowling (cricket) In the sport of cricket, bowling is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman. A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler; a bowler who is also a competent batsman is known as an all-rounder... statistics Statistics Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments.... Qualification: 600 balls bowled |
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| Name | Bowling style | Career | Mat | Balls Delivery (cricket) A delivery or ball in cricket is a single action of bowling a cricket ball towards the batsman.During play of the game, a member of the fielding team is designated as the bowler, and bowls deliveries towards the batsman... |
Mdns Over (cricket) In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate.... |
Runs Run (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement... |
Wkts | Avg Bowling average Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned... |
BBI | 5wI | 10wM |
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| RF Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
1970-1981 | 26 | 4420 | 166 | 2017 | 107 | 18.85 | 7-30 | 6 | 1 | |
| RFM Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
1970-1980 | 31 | 4921 | 180 | 2238 | 106 | 21.11 | 5-43 | 5 | 1 | |
| RFM Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
1969-1979 | 31 | 4851 | 140 | 2476 | 95 | 26.06 | 6-49 | 3 | 0 | |
| OB Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners.... |
1976-1981 | 20 | 5757 | 249 | 2273 | 92 | 24.70 | 9-76 | 7 | 1 | |
| SLA | 1970-1980 | 33 | 7415 | 302 | 2687 | 73 | 36.80 | 6-40 | 1 | 0 | |
| LFM Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
1974-1977 | 11 | 1746 | 69 | 672 | 25 | 26.88 | 4-43 | 0 | 0 | |
| RM Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
1972-1976 | 13 | 1878 | 68 | 819 | 25 | 32.76 | 4-33 | 0 | 0 | |
| OB Off spin Off spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket which is bowled by an off spinner, a right-handed spin bowler who uses his or her fingers and/or wrist to spin the ball from a right-handed batsman's off side to the leg side... , RM Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling... |
1971-1981 | 26 | 1987 | 97 | 764 | 20 | 38.20 | 3-30 | 0 | 0 | |
| OB Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners.... |
1973-1980 | 26 | 2160 | 101 | 807 | 13 | 62.07 | 2-26 | 0 | 0 |
Grounds
Out of 30 first-class home games, the most were played in Warner ParkWarner Park Sporting Complex
Warner Park Sporting Complex is an athletic facility in Basseterre, St. Kitts, St. Kitts and Nevis. It includes the Warner Park Stadium, which was one of the hosts for the 2007 Cricket World Cup....
on Saint Kitts
Saint Kitts
Saint Kitts Saint Kitts Saint Kitts (also known more formally as Saint Christopher Island (Saint-Christophe in French) 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...
, which hosted seven games. The team played cricket on a total of eight different islands, with Antigua
Antigua
Antigua , also known as Waladli, is an island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua means "ancient" in Spanish and was named by Christopher Columbus after an icon in Seville Cathedral, Santa Maria de la...
getting six, Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...
five, Grenada
Grenada
Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...
four, Dominica
Dominica
Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...
and Saint Vincent
Saint Vincent (island)
Saint Vincent is a volcanic island in the Caribbean. It is the largest island of the chain called Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is located in the Caribbean Sea, between Saint Lucia and Grenada. It is composed of partially submerged volcanic mountains...
three, while Montserrat
Montserrat
Montserrat is a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies. This island measures approximately long and wide, giving of coastline...
and Nevis
Nevis
Nevis is an island in the Caribbean Sea, located near the northern end of the Lesser Antilles archipelago, about 350 km east-southeast of Puerto Rico and 80 km west of Antigua. The 93 km² island is part of the inner arc of the Leeward Islands chain of the West Indies...
hosted one game each.
Team records
- Highest total for: 481 v Jamaica, 1980-81 Shell Shield, BasseterreWarner Park Sporting ComplexWarner Park Sporting Complex is an athletic facility in Basseterre, St. Kitts, St. Kitts and Nevis. It includes the Warner Park Stadium, which was one of the hosts for the 2007 Cricket World Cup....
, 23-26 January 1981 - Highest total against: 555 by Barbados, 1979-80 Shell Shield, BridgetownKensington OvalThe Kensington Oval is located to the west of the capital-city Bridgetown on the island of Barbados. "The Oval" is one of the major sporting facilities on the island and is primarily used for cricket...
, 25-28 April 1980 - Lowest total for: 53 v Barbados, 1973-74 Shell Shield, BasseterreWarner Park Sporting ComplexWarner Park Sporting Complex is an athletic facility in Basseterre, St. Kitts, St. Kitts and Nevis. It includes the Warner Park Stadium, which was one of the hosts for the 2007 Cricket World Cup....
, 5-8 January 1974 - Lowest total against: 85 by Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago cricket teamThe Trinidad and Tobago cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago.The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup, with the best players selected for the West Indies...
, 1965-66 Shell Shield, CastriesMindoo Philip ParkMindoo Philip Park is a cricket stadium located in Castries, Saint Lucia. It is a home venue for the Windward Islands cricket team. However, first class cricket has not been played since 2001 due to the construction of Beausejour Stadium....
, 11-14 March 1966
Batting records
- Highest innings: 168 not outNot outIn cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...
, Viv RichardsViv RichardsSir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE is a former West Indian cricketer. Better known by his second name, Vivian or, more popularly, simply as Viv or King Viv Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, by a 100-member panel of experts, along with Sir Donald...
v Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago cricket teamThe Trinidad and Tobago cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago.The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup, with the best players selected for the West Indies...
, 1980-81 Shell Shield, Queen's Park OvalQueen's Park OvalQueen's Park Oval, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, is currently the largest capacity cricket ground in the West Indies and has hosted more Test matches than any other ground in the Caribbean. It also hosted a number of matches in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. It is privately owned by the...
, 17-20 January 1981 - Highest partnerships for each wicket:
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Partnership Runs Run (cricket)In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement...
Players Opposition Venue Season 1st wicket 139 Lockhart Sebastien Lockhart SebastienLockhart Christopher Sebastien in Dominica. He was a West Indies cricketer who played for the Combined Islands and the Windward Islands in the 1970's and the 1980's. He is the father of current Windward Island cricketer Liam Sebastien....
& Michael CamachoMichael CamachoMichael Stephen Camacho, born 4 March 1953 in Antigua, is a former West Indian cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for the Combined Islands and the Leeward Islands cricket teams.-References:...
v Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago cricket teamThe Trinidad and Tobago cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago.The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup, with the best players selected for the West Indies...
Port of Spain Queen's Park OvalQueen's Park Oval, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, is currently the largest capacity cricket ground in the West Indies and has hosted more Test matches than any other ground in the Caribbean. It also hosted a number of matches in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. It is privately owned by the...
1976-77 2nd wicket 118 Lockhart Sebastien Lockhart SebastienLockhart Christopher Sebastien in Dominica. He was a West Indies cricketer who played for the Combined Islands and the Windward Islands in the 1970's and the 1980's. He is the father of current Windward Island cricketer Liam Sebastien....
& Jim AllenJim Allen (cricketer)James Charles "Jim" Allen is a former Montserratian first-class cricketer who represented the World Series Cricket West Indians and is considered the greatest ever Montserrat sportsperson....
v Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago cricket teamThe Trinidad and Tobago cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago.The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup, with the best players selected for the West Indies...
Basseterre Warner Park Sporting ComplexWarner Park Sporting Complex is an athletic facility in Basseterre, St. Kitts, St. Kitts and Nevis. It includes the Warner Park Stadium, which was one of the hosts for the 2007 Cricket World Cup....
1975-76 3rd wicket 147 Jim Allen Jim Allen (cricketer)James Charles "Jim" Allen is a former Montserratian first-class cricketer who represented the World Series Cricket West Indians and is considered the greatest ever Montserrat sportsperson....
& Viv RichardsViv RichardsSir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE is a former West Indian cricketer. Better known by his second name, Vivian or, more popularly, simply as Viv or King Viv Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, by a 100-member panel of experts, along with Sir Donald...
v Guyana Rose Hall 1973-74 4th wicket 163 Irvine Shillingford Irvine ShillingfordIrvine Theodore Shillingford is a former West Indian cricketer who played four Tests and two ODIs in 1977 and 1978. He also played a further 88 first class games, 49 of them for the Combined Islands, whom he represented from its inception in 1961 until the dissolution of the team in 1981...
& Victor EddyVictor EddyVictor Austin Eddy was a West Indies cricketer in the 1970s and 1980s. He played for the Combined Islands and Leeward Islands in his first-class career.- External links :*...
v Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago cricket teamThe Trinidad and Tobago cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago.The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup, with the best players selected for the West Indies...
Port of Spain Queen's Park OvalQueen's Park Oval, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, is currently the largest capacity cricket ground in the West Indies and has hosted more Test matches than any other ground in the Caribbean. It also hosted a number of matches in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. It is privately owned by the...
1976-77 5th wicket 140 Viv Richards Viv RichardsSir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE is a former West Indian cricketer. Better known by his second name, Vivian or, more popularly, simply as Viv or King Viv Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, by a 100-member panel of experts, along with Sir Donald...
& Derick ParryDerick ParryDerick Recaldo Parry played 12 Tests and six One Day Internationals for the West Indies....
v Jamaica Basseterre Warner Park Sporting ComplexWarner Park Sporting Complex is an athletic facility in Basseterre, St. Kitts, St. Kitts and Nevis. It includes the Warner Park Stadium, which was one of the hosts for the 2007 Cricket World Cup....
1980-81 6th wicket 111 Irvine Shillingford Irvine ShillingfordIrvine Theodore Shillingford is a former West Indian cricketer who played four Tests and two ODIs in 1977 and 1978. He also played a further 88 first class games, 49 of them for the Combined Islands, whom he represented from its inception in 1961 until the dissolution of the team in 1981...
& Derick ParryDerick ParryDerick Recaldo Parry played 12 Tests and six One Day Internationals for the West Indies....
v Barbados Castries Mindoo Philip ParkMindoo Philip Park is a cricket stadium located in Castries, Saint Lucia. It is a home venue for the Windward Islands cricket team. However, first class cricket has not been played since 2001 due to the construction of Beausejour Stadium....
1977-78 7th wicket 109 Alford Corriette Alford CorrietteAlford Corriette was a West Indies cricketer who played 24 matches for the Combined Islands and the Leeward Islands in a career that lasted from 1972 until 1976. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, Corriette scored 851 runs and claimed 44 wickets in his first-class...
& Irvine ShillingfordIrvine ShillingfordIrvine Theodore Shillingford is a former West Indian cricketer who played four Tests and two ODIs in 1977 and 1978. He also played a further 88 first class games, 49 of them for the Combined Islands, whom he represented from its inception in 1961 until the dissolution of the team in 1981...
v Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago cricket teamThe Trinidad and Tobago cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago.The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup, with the best players selected for the West Indies...
Port of Spain Queen's Park OvalQueen's Park Oval, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, is currently the largest capacity cricket ground in the West Indies and has hosted more Test matches than any other ground in the Caribbean. It also hosted a number of matches in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. It is privately owned by the...
1972-73 8th wicket 110 Norbert Phillip Norbert PhillipNorbert Phillip is a former cricketer. He played nine Tests and one One Day International for the West Indies. He also turned out for the Combined Islands, playing 31 first-class matches for them as an all-rounder; he never hit a century for the Combined Islands , but with 106 wickets he was the...
& Elquemedo WillettElquemedo WillettElquemedo Tonito Willett is a former West Indian cricketer who played in five Tests from 1973 to 1974.During New Zealand's tour of the West Indies in 1972, Willet was considered the best of the many left-arm finger-spinners the New Zealanders faced.Willett's nephew Stuart Williams has played many...
v Barbados Bridgetown Kensington OvalThe Kensington Oval is located to the west of the capital-city Bridgetown on the island of Barbados. "The Oval" is one of the major sporting facilities on the island and is primarily used for cricket...
1972-73 9th wicket 146 Victor Eddy Victor EddyVictor Austin Eddy was a West Indies cricketer in the 1970s and 1980s. He played for the Combined Islands and Leeward Islands in his first-class career.- External links :*...
& Hugh GoreHugh GoreHugh Edmond Ivor Gore was a West Indian cricketer. A right-handed batsman and left-arm fast-medium bowler, he took 57 career first-class wickets at an average of 33.63...
v Jamaica Kingstown 1976-77 10th wicket 62 Mike Findlay Mike FindlayThaddeus Michael Findlay, born 19 October 1943, at Troumaca, Saint Vincent, is a former West Indian cricketer who played in ten Tests from 1969 to 1973 as a batsman and wicketkeeper....
& Hugh GoreHugh GoreHugh Edmond Ivor Gore was a West Indian cricketer. A right-handed batsman and left-arm fast-medium bowler, he took 57 career first-class wickets at an average of 33.63...
v Jamaica St John's Antigua Recreation GroundAntigua Recreation Ground is the national stadium of Antigua and Barbuda. It is located in St. John's, on the island of Antigua. The ground has been used by the West Indies cricket team and Antigua and Barbuda national football team...
1974-75
Bowling records
- Most wickets in an innings: 9-76, Derick ParryDerick ParryDerick Recaldo Parry played 12 Tests and six One Day Internationals for the West Indies....
v Jamaica, 1979-80 Shell Shield, KingstonSabina ParkSabina Park is the home of the Kingston Cricket Club, and is the only Test cricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica and is often referred to as "The Holiday Home of Cricket"....
, 21-24 March 1980 - Most wickets in a match: 15-101, Derick ParryDerick ParryDerick Recaldo Parry played 12 Tests and six One Day Internationals for the West Indies....
v Jamaica, 1979-80 Shell Shield, KingstonSabina ParkSabina Park is the home of the Kingston Cricket Club, and is the only Test cricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica and is often referred to as "The Holiday Home of Cricket"....
, 21-24 March 1980