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| Team information | |
|---|---|
| Founded | First recorded match: 1975 |
| Dissolved | 2016 |
| Home ground | Progress Park, Grenville |
| History | |
| First-class debut | Barbados in 1975 at Desmond Haynes Oval, Bridgetown |
| S50 wins | 1 |
| T20 Blaze wins | 0 |
The Grenada women's national cricket team is the women's representative cricket team of the country of Grenada. They competed in the West Indies women's domestic cricket structure on and off between 1975 and 2014, after which they were replaced by the Windward Islands.
Grenada joined the West Indies domestic structure for its inaugural season in 1975–76, playing in the Federation Championships losing all three of their matches. [1] They competed in every season but one (1989) until 1991, and won their first title in 1990, winning the limited overs section of the tournament, beating Saint Lucia in the semi-final and Jamaica in the final. [2]
After 1991, Grenada did not compete in the domestic structure until the 2000 season, after which they played in every season until 2014 but one (2005). [3] [4] Grenada were more successful earlier in this period, finishing 3rd in the league two seasons in a row in 2002 and 2003. [5] [6] In their final season competing in the Championship, 2014, they finished 6th after losing the 5th Place Play-Off to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. [7] In 2012 and 2013, Grenada also competed in the first two seasons of the Twenty20 Blaze, finishing 6th in 2012 and 5th in 2013. [8] [9]
After 2014 Grenada no longer competed in the domestic structure, with North Windward Islands and South Windward Islands competing in 2015 and a unified Windward Islands team, including Grenada, competing from 2016 onwards. [10] [11] The side did compete in three friendlies against Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 2016, but the results are unrecorded. [12]
Players who played for Grenada and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets): [13]
Joan Alexander-Serrano (1976) Debbie-Ann Lewis (2003) Susan Redhead (2003) Afy Fletcher (2008) Akeira Peters (2017)
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 Professional Cricket League under the franchise name Windward Islands Volcanoes.
The West Indies men's cricket team, nicknamed The Windies, is a men's cricket team representing the West Indies—a group of mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region—and administered by Cricket West Indies. The players on this composite team are selected from a chain of fifteen Caribbean nation-states and territories. As of 26 November 2022, the West Indies cricket team is ranked eighth in Tests, and tenth in ODIs and seventh in T20Is in the official ICC rankings.
The Jamaica women's national cricket team is the women's representative cricket team of the country of Jamaica. They compete in the Women's Super50 Cup and the Twenty20 Blaze.
The Trinidad and Tobago women's national cricket team, also known as Trinidad and Tobago Red Force Divas, is the women's representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago. They compete in the Women's Super50 Cup and the Twenty20 Blaze.
Cricket West Indies (CWI) is the governing body for cricket in the West Indies. It was originally formed in the early 1920s as the West Indies Cricket Board of Control, but changed its name to West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) in 1996. In November 2015, the Board resolved to rename itself as Cricket West Indies as part of a restructuring exercise that would also see the creation of a separate commercial body. This rebranding formally occurred in May 2017.
The Saint Vincent and the Grenadines national cricket team is a cricket team representing Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and is a member of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control. For cricketing purposes, players from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines generally represent the Windward Islands at domestic level and the West Indies at international level. However, the St Vincent & Grenadines team did appear four times in its own right at List A level in the 2002–03 Red Stripe Bowl, the domestic one day competition. The team had also played as a separate entity in matches which held Twenty20 status and they continues to compete in domestic Windward Islands cricket competitions including the Windward Islands two-day and Twenty20 cricket championships.
In the sport of cricket, the West Indies is a sporting confederation of fifteen mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries and territories, many of which historically formed the British West Indies. It consists of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Maarten, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States Virgin Islands. The governing body for the confederation is Cricket West Indies (CWI), which is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC); beneath the CWI are six territorial governing bodies covering different nations and regions of the confederation. The CWI organises the West Indies cricket team, which represents the confederation in international cricket, as well as administering domestic cricket competitions across the West Indies.
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The Dominica national cricket team represents the country of Dominica in cricket. The team is not a member of the International Cricket Council, but the Dominica Cricket Association is a member of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control, which itself is a member association of the West Indies Cricket Board, and players from Dominica generally represent the Windward Islands cricket team at domestic level and the West Indies at international level. Dominica has however played as a separate entity in matches which held Twenty20 status, but has not appeared in first-class or List A cricket. The team's captain, as of December 2013, is Liam Sebastien.
The Saint Lucia national cricket team represents the country of Saint Lucia in cricket. The team is a member of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control, which itself is a member association of the West Indies Cricket Board. Players from St Lucia generally represent the Windward Islands cricket team at domestic level and the West Indies at international level. St Lucia has however played as a separate entity in matches which held Twenty20 status, but has not appeared in first-class or List A cricket. St Lucia competes with St Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada and Dominica in domestic Windward Islands cricket competitions including the Windward Islands two-day and Twenty20 cricket championships. The team's captain, as of 2014, is Craig Emmanuel.
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The Twenty20 Blaze, officially the Cricket West Indies Women's Twenty20 Blaze and previously known as the West Indies Cricket Board Regional Women's Twenty20 Championship, is a women's Twenty20 cricket competition organised by Cricket West Indies.
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