| Personnel | |
|---|---|
| Captain | Chaka Hodge |
| Coach | Cardigan Connor |
| Team information | |
| Colours | Blue, Yellow |
| Home ground | Ronald Webster Park |
TheAnguilla national cricket team is the representativecricket team ofAnguilla.
The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in theCaribbean, but has only appeared in senior cricket twice, in the twoStanford 20/20 tournaments. For domesticfirst-class andList A purposes, Anguilla is subsumed into theLeeward Islands cricket team. The first Anguillan to playTest cricket forWest Indies wasOmari Banks in 2003.
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 againstMontserrat in the 1980 tournament.[2]
Current Leeward Islands players
Former Leeward Islands players
Other
Anguilla's only games of senior cricket have come inTwenty20, as part of theStanford 20/20 competitions in 2006 and 2007–08. Their debut at this level was againstBarbados at theStanford Cricket Ground inCoolidge,Antigua on 18 July 2006; Barbados won the match by 38 runs.[3]On 3 February 2008, they playedGrenada, who won by 16 runs despite a 39-ballunbeaten 75 from Anguilla'sMontcin Hodge.[4]
2006 Stanford 20/20 Squad
2007/2008 Stanford 20/20 Squad
Source:2006 Squad2007/08 Squad
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