Windward Islands cricket team
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| Captain: |
 Darren Sammy (List A & T20) Liam Sebastien (First-class) |
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| Coach: | Ian Allen |
| Colours: | Green |
| Founded: | 1980 |
| Home ground: |
 Arnos Vale Stadium Queen's Park, Grenada Windsor Park (Dominica) Beausejour Stadium Mindoo Philip Park
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| Four Day wins: | 0 |
| WICB Cup wins: | 2 |
| Twenty20 wins: | 0 |
| Official website: | Windward Island Cricket Board |
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 (including the NAGICO Regional Super50) under the franchise name Windward Islands Volcanoes.
It includes the islands that were known as the British Windward Islands except for Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, who have their own teams. Thus, it includes Dominica (technically a part of the Leeward Islands, but as it was part of the Windward Islands colony from 1940 until independence and its cricket federation remains a part of the Windward Islands), Grenada, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
The team plays in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Carib Beer Cup and the KFC Cup, and the best players may be selected for the West Indies cricket team, which plays international cricket. However, Grenada took part in the 1998 Commonwealth Games cricket competition separately.
The Windward Islands team is the least successful of the six West Indian first class teams, having failed to win a first-class title and with three one-day titles in 33 attempts. They played their first first-class match in 1959–60 against the touring England side, losing by ten wickets, and until 1980–81 they mainly played as a part of the Combined Islands. However, from 1981–82 onwards they have played as a separate entity.
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