Guyana national cricket team

For the Caribbean Premier League team, see Guyana Amazon Warriors.
Guyana National Cricket Team
Captain: Assad Fudadin
Coach: Mark Harper
Colours: Green yellow red
Founded: 1965
Home ground: Providence Stadium
Capacity: 15,000
Four Day wins: 5 (plus 1 shared)
WICB Cup wins: 7 (plus 2 shared)
CT20 wins: 1

The Guyana cricket team is the representative first class cricket team of Guyana.

It does not take part in any international competitions, but rather in inter-regional competitions in the Caribbean, such as the West Indies' Professional Cricket League (which includes Regional Four Day Competition and the NAGICO Regional Super50), and the best players may be selected for the West Indies team, which plays international cricket. The team competes in the Professional Cricket League under the franchise name Guyana Jaguars.[1]

Guyana has won the domestic first class title five times since its inception in 1965–66, which is the third highest amount of wins, behind Barbados and Jamaica.

In one-day cricket, Guyana reached the final of the domestic competition four times in the early 2000s, but the last victory was in 2005–06. They have won the KFC Cup a total of nine times – including two shared titles – which is the most by any competing team, Trinidad and Tobago coming closest with seven (including one shared).

The cricket team has been known under two other names – they were first known as Demerara when they played in the first first-class cricket game of the West Indies, against Barbados in 1865, and they retained that name until 1899, when it was finally changed to British Guiana (they had also played first-class cricket in 1895 as British Guiana). The name of British Guiana stuck until 1965–66, when the nation and thus the team changed to its current name. From 1971 until the mid-1980s two regional sides competed in an annual first class match for the Guystac Trophy.

The list of prominent cricketers who have played for Guyana includes Basil Butcher, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Colin Croft, Roy Fredericks, Lance Gibbs, Roger Harper, Carl Hooper, Alvin Kallicharran, Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd and Ramnaresh Sarwan.

Roger Harper, cricketer turned coach

Grounds

Guyana's main home ground is the Bourda ground in Georgetown, where they have played 131 of their 181 first class home games, and which has also hosted 30 Test matches with the West Indies. Other grounds include the Albion Sports Complex in the Berbice region, which has hosted 24 Guyana matches and five ODIs, and from 1997–98 Guyana began to use the Enmore Recreation Ground, where they have played five games. In 2004–05 they also played a match at Hampton Court in Essequibo, their first first-class match there in 17 seasons.

Squad

Listed below are players who have represented Guyana in either the 2015–16 Regional Four Day Competition or the 2015–16 Regional Super50. Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Name Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes
Batsmen
Rajendra Chandrika 8 August 1989 Right-handed Right-arm off spin
Shivnarine Chanderpaul 16 August 1974 Left-handed Right-arm leg spin
Tagenarine Chanderpaul 31 May 1996 Left-handed Right-arm leg spin
Assad Fudadin 1 August 1985 Left-handed Right-arm medium
Shimron Hetmyer 26 December 1996 Left-handed Right-arm leg spin
Leon Johnson 8 August 1987 Left-handed Right-arm leg spin Captain
Vishaul Singh 12 January 1989 Left-handed Left-arm orthodox
All-rounders
Christopher Barnwell 6 January 1987 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Royston Crandon 31 May 1983 Right-handed Right-arm off spin
Steven Jacobs 13 September 1988 Right-handed Right-arm off spin
Raymon Reifer 11 May 1991 Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast
Wicket-keepers
Kevon Boodie 28 June 1993 Right-handed
Anthony Bramble 11 December 1990 Right-handed
Bowlers
Ronsford Beaton 17 September 1992 Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
Keon Joseph 25 November 1991 Left-handed Left-arm orthodox
Gudakesh Motie 29 March 1995 Left-handed Left-arm orthodox
Veerasammy Permaul 11 August 1989 Right-handed Left-arm orthodox
Romario Shepherd 26 November 1994 Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
Paul Wintz 7 March 1986 Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium

Source: Regional Four Day Competition, Regional Super50

Most runs for Guyana

Player Runs Average Centuries
Shivnarine Chanderpaul 5746 63.14 17
Clayton Lambert 4680 48.75 14
Roy Fredericks 4344 70.06 15
Carl Hooper 3372 58.13 13
Clive Lloyd 3102 66.00 12

Honours

See also

References

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