Guyana cricket team
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| Captain: | Leon Johnson (First Class and List A) |
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| Coach: | Mark Harper |
| Colours: | Green yellow red |
| Founded: | 1965 |
| Home ground: | Providence Stadium |
| Capacity: | 15,000 |
| Four Day wins: | 7 (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.
Guyana has won the domestic first class title seven 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 Jones Cup and later the Guystac Trophy.
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