Dominica national cricket team

Dominica

Personnel
Captain	Liam Sebastien
Coach	Mervin Thomas
Team information
Colours	Blue, Yellow
Home ground	Windsor Park
History
Four Daywins	n/a
WICB Cupwins	n/a
Twenty20wins	0
Official website	Dominica Cricket Association

TheDominica national cricket teamrepresents the country ofDominicaincricket.The team is not a member of theInternational Cricket Council,but the Dominica Cricket Association is a member of theWindward Islands Cricket Board of Control,which itself is a member association of theWest Indies Cricket Board,and players from Dominica generally represent theWindward Islands cricket teamat domestic level and theWest Indiesat international level. Dominica has however played as a separate entity in matches which heldTwenty20status, but has not appeared infirst-classorList A cricket.The team's captain, as of December 2013, isLiam Sebastien.

History

A Dominica cricket team first appeared in West Indian cricket in the 1912/13 Hesketh Bell Shield againstSaint Kittsat theAntigua Recreation Ground.The team is next recorded playing twelve years later in the 1925/26 Hesketh Bell Shield, with Dominica playing in the Shield until 1932, later playing in the Cork Windward Islands Challenge Cup in 1938 and 1939.In 1930,Merril Anthonybecame the first recorded person to have played for Dominica to play first-class cricket when he appeared forBritish Guiana.There is a long gap between 1939 and Dominica's next recorded appearance, which came in the 1965 Windward Islands Tournament againstSaint Kitts.By this time theWindward Islandswere playing matches which held first-class status, withWindsor Parkplaying host to the team's fourth first-class fixture in 1965 against theLeeward Islands.Dominica continued to play in the Windward Islands Tournament, and from 1975 its successor, the Heineken Trophy.Their participation in the tournament (under various names) continued into the 1990s, with matches home throughout this period being held mostly at the Windsor Park.

Having played in regional tournaments throughout the early to mid 2000s, Dominica were invited to take part in the2006 Stanford 20/20,whose matches held officialTwenty20status.They played one match in the tournament, a 6 wicket defeat toGrenada.Two years later, they were invited to take part in the2008 Stanford 20/20,playing two matches in the tournament, defeating theBritish Virgin Islandsin the preliminary round, before losing toBarbadosin the following round.These matches mark Dominica's only major appearances in cricket.

Notable players

International players

Five players fromDominicahave represented theWest IndiesInternationally.

• Appsdenotes the number of appearances the player has made.
• Runsdenotes the number of runs scored by the player.
• Wktsdenotes the number of wickets taken by the player.

Name	International career	Apps	Runs	Wkts	Apps	Runs	Wkts	Apps	Runs	Wkts	References
		Tests			ODIs			T20Is
Grayson Shillingford	1969–1972	7	57	15	–	–	–	–	–	–
Irvine Shillingford	1977–1978	4	218	0	2	30	0	–	–	–
Norbert Phillip	1978–1979	9	297	28	1	0	1	–	–	–
Adam Sanford	2002–2004	11	72	30	–	–	–	–	–	–
Shane Shillingford	2010–2014	16	266	70	–	–	–	–	–	–

• Phillip DeFreitas,anotherDominicancricketer representedEnglandafter moving there at a young age. He played 44test matchesand 103ODIsfor England.

Many otherDominicanplayers have represented theWindward Islandsdomestically in the West IndiesRegional Super50,Regional Four Day Competitionand theCaribbean Twenty20.

Dominica players on the currentWindward Islandsteam

• Shane Shillingford
• Liam Sebastien
• Tyrone Theophile
• Mervin Matthew

See also

List of Windward Islands first-class cricketers

• SeeList of Dominica Twenty20 playersandCategory:Dominica cricketers

External links

• Dominicaat CricketArchive