Anguilla national cricket team
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| Personnel | |
|---|---|
| Captain | Chaka Hodge |
| Coach | Cardigan Connor |
| Team information | |
| Colours | Blue, Yellow |
| Home ground | Ronald Webster Park |
The Anguilla national cricket team is the representative cricket team of Anguilla.
The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, but has only appeared in senior cricket twice, in the two Stanford 20/20 tournaments. For domestic first-class and List A purposes, Anguilla is subsumed into the Leeward Islands cricket team. The first Anguillan to play Test cricket for West Indies was Omari Banks in 2003.
History
[edit]Representative cricket has been played by Anguilla since the late 1970s. Early games were played as part of the three-day (but not first-class) Heineken Challenge Trophy (the sponsored Leeward Islands Tournament), although at first the team was not a full participant and played only two games each year in the 1977, 1978 and 1979 tournaments.[1] The team suffered a run of heavy defeats in their early years; Anguilla's first win in the competition came against Montserrat in the 1980 tournament.[2]
Notable players
[edit]Current Leeward Islands players
Former Leeward Islands players
- Omari Banks (2001 - 2013)
- Chaka Hodge (2002 - 2008)
- Alex Adams (1997 - 2005)
- Lanville Harrigan (1988 - 2003)
- Eustace Proctor (1986)
Other
- Cardigan Connor (played English county cricket)
Stanford 20/20
[edit]Anguilla's only games of senior cricket have come in Twenty20, as part of the Stanford 20/20 competitions in 2006 and 2007–08. Their debut at this level was against Barbados at the Stanford Cricket Ground in Coolidge, Antigua on 18 July 2006; Barbados won the match by 38 runs.[3] On 3 February 2008, they played Grenada, who won by 16 runs despite a 39-ball unbeaten 75 from Anguilla's Montcin Hodge.[4]
2006 Stanford 20/20 Squad
- Omari Banks
- Alex Adams
- Terrence Adams
- Chaka Hodge
- Montcin Hodge
- Chesney Hughes
- Leon Lake
- Delano Mussington
- Daniel Proctor
- Lyndel Richardson
- Irving Rogers
- Delon Skellekie
- Kelbert Walters
2007/2008 Stanford 20/20 Squad
- Chaka Hodge
- Omari Banks
- Terrence Adams
- Masimba Bowen
- Marlon Bryson
- Jahmar Hamilton
- Montcin Hodge
- Chesney Hughes
- Junior Johnson
- Leon Lake
- Rondal Lake
- Yannick Leonard
- Daniel Proctor
- Shridath Rey
- Lyndel Richardson
- Kelbert Walters
Source:2006 Squad 2007/08 Squad
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Scorecard Oracle". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
- ^ "Anguilla v Montserrat in 1980". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
- ^ "Anguilla v Barbados in 2006". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
- ^ "Anguilla v Grenada in 2007/08". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
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