St Catherine Sport and Social Club is a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 club in 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...

. The club competes in the Barbados Cricket Association

Barbados Cricket Association

The Barbados Cricket Association is the ruling body for cricket in Barbados. The BCA was sstablished in 1933 by an Act of Parliament to replace the Barbados Cricket Challenge Cup Committee, which had administered Barbadian cricket since its formation in 1892...

 Division 1 championship with its home ground at Bayfield, Saint Philip. Unlike other Barbadian clubs such as 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...

, 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....

 and Carlton

Carlton Cricket Club (Barbados)

Carlton Cricket Club is a cricket club in Barbados, competing in the Barbados Cricket Association Division 1 championship. The club is based in Black Rock, north of Bridgetown and its home ground is the Desmond Haynes Oval. Carlton was founded on 1 April 1940 as a club for "lower middle income...

, St Catherine began as a club primarily for the black population.

The club was originally a member of the Barbados Cricket League before being admitted to the elite Barbados Cricket Association in the 1970s. The club was admitted to Division 1 in 1978. St Catherine have won the Division 1 championship on three occasions, 2008, 1997 and 1981.

Cricketers from St Catherine include West Indies Test wicket-keeper 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...

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