Combined Islands cricket team
The Combined Islands cricket team was a
History
The Combined Islands played 54 first-class games, winning 11, drawing 19 and losing 24. 52 of those games were in the
Inaugural Shell Shield
In 1965–66, the team was among the five that played for the inaugural Shell Shield. After two draws against
It took a further four seasons before the Combined Islands returned to the Shell Shield – the Leeward and Windward teams played games, but the matches they played did not count for points. [1] The Combined team was back for the 1969–70 tournament, though, and duly lost all four games, with no player averaging more than 26 with the bat. This was the first season that the Shillingford cousins – Irvine and Grayson, who both represented West Indies at Test level – played for the Combined Islands and the two went on to play most Shell Shield matches for the Combined Islands together until 1976–77, Irving scoring more than 2,500 runs while Grayson took nearly 100 wickets for the team.
Building a team
In
Title challengers
The next season, they got their best position in the Shell Shield thus far, going unbeaten through the season and also recording their first away win – a 163-run win over Barbados, their highest win yet, which also included a second-innings century from Allen and a new record
The next season saw them fall back to fourth place, however, with none of the four matches seeing more than 325 overs of play in four days as the Combined Islands drew all four games – with two ending before the first innings were completed.
The Combined Islands finished second for the third time in four seasons in
The next season saw the Combined Islands return to the runners-up spot, after winning two games in a season for the first time, and before the final game in Barbados they trailed their hosts by 11 points after a drawn game in Trinidad two weeks earlier. After being put in the field by the Barbados captain, Combined Islands batted to a total of 257, before centuries from Emmerson Trotman and Thelston Payne helped Barbados to a total of 555 - with Viv Richards getting the best bowling returns for the Islands with two for 71. However, he only made 3 with the bat, as his team were bowled out for 279 - losing by an innings and 19 runs, and finishing second again. Earlier on in the season, Parry had beaten his own best-innings bowling record, with nine for 76 against Jamaica, in a match where he took 15 for 101 - a record for all West Indies domestic teams which stood for 16 years. Parry finished the season with 25 wickets.
Shell Shield victory, and dissolution
Finally, after four runner-up spots in the preceding six seasons, it was the Combined Islands' turn to win the Shell Shield trophy in
The innings defeat was the end of the Combined Islands team. The
First class statistics
Batting and fielding
Name | Batting hand | Career | Mat | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | 100 | 50 | Ct
|
St |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irvine Shillingford | Right | 1981 |
49 | 83 | 5 | 2788 | 120 | 35.74 | 6 | 16 | 54 | |
Jim Allen | Right | 1981 |
30 | 50 | 1 | 1698 | 161 | 34.65 | 4 | 9 | 27 | |
Viv Richards | Right | 1981 |
26 | 49 | 2 | 1661 | 168* | 35.34 | 5 | 9 | 18 | |
Lockhart Sebastien | Right | 1980 |
32 | 57 | 6 | 1611 | 95 | 31.58 | 0 | 13 | 27 | |
Norbert Philip |
Right | 1980 |
31 | 50 | 6 | 1143 | 99 | 25.97 | 0 | 10 | 13 | |
Victor Eddy | Right | 1980 |
26 | 38 | 4 | 1016 | 131 | 29.88 | 2 | 4 | 12 | |
Mike Findlay | Right | 1978 |
36 | 60 | 6 | 951 | 68* | 17.61 | 0 | 2 | 67 | 15 |
Derick Parry | Right | 1981 |
20 | 29 | 2 | 812 | 96 | 30.07 | 0 | 6 | 22 | |
Livingstone Sargeant | Right | 1974 |
15 | 30 | 0 | 664 | 80 | 22.13 | 0 | 3 | 6 | |
Enoch Lewis | Right | 1981 |
13 | 24 | 2 | 655 | 57 | 29.77 | 0 | 3 | 15 | |
Leonard Harris |
n/a | 1971 |
14 | 27 | 1 | 628 | 72 | 24.15 | 0 | 5 | 7 | |
Vance Amory | Right | 1981 |
17 | 33 | 1 | 603 | 64 | 18.84 | 0 | 3 | 11 | |
Andy Roberts | Right | 1981 |
26 | 44 | 8 | 483 | 63 | 13.41 | 0 | 2 | 10 | |
Alford Corriette | Right | 1976 |
13 | 21 | 2 | 439 | 113* | 23.10 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
Elquemedo Willett | Left | 1980 |
33 | 53 | 13 | 421 | 47 | 10.52 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
Grayson Shillingford | Left | 1979 |
31 | 51 | 15 | 377 | 42 | 10.47 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
Michael Camacho | Right | 1978 |
14 | 22 | 3 | 365 | 65 | 19.21 | 0 | 2 | 12 | |
Hugh Gore | Right | 1977 |
11 | 14 | 4 | 221 | 67 | 22.10 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |
Ignatius Cadette | Right | 1981 |
10 | 14 | 3 | 201 | 37* | 18.27 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 |
Bowling
Name | Bowling style | Career | Mat | Balls | Mdns | Runs | Wkts
|
Avg | BBI | 5wI | 10wM |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Andy Roberts | RF | 1981 |
26 | 4420 | 166 | 2017 | 107 | 18.85 | 7-30 | 6 | 1 |
Norbert Philip |
RFM | 1980 |
31 | 4921 | 180 | 2238 | 106 | 21.11 | 5-43 | 5 | 1 |
Grayson Shillingford | RFM | 1979 |
31 | 4851 | 140 | 2476 | 95 | 26.06 | 6-49 | 3 | 0 |
Derick Parry | OB |
1981 |
20 | 5757 | 249 | 2273 | 92 | 24.70 | 9-76 | 7 | 1 |
Elquemedo Willett | SLA |
1980 |
33 | 7415 | 302 | 2687 | 73 | 36.80 | 6-40 | 1 | 0 |
Hugh Gore | LFM | 1977 |
11 | 1746 | 69 | 672 | 25 | 26.88 | 4-43 | 0 | 0 |
Alford Corriette | RM | 1976 |
13 | 1878 | 68 | 819 | 25 | 32.76 | 4-33 | 0 | 0 |
Viv Richards | OB, RM | 1981 |
26 | 1987 | 97 | 764 | 20 | 38.20 | 3-30 | 0 | 0 |
Victor Eddy | OB |
1980 |
26 | 2160 | 101 | 807 | 13 | 62.07 | 2-26 | 0 | 0 |
Grounds
Out of 30 first-class home games, the most were played in
Records
Team records
- Highest total for: 481 v 1980-81 Shell Shield, Basseterre, 23–26 January 1981
- Highest total against: 555 by 1979-80 Shell Shield, Bridgetown, 25–28 April 1980
- Lowest total for: 53 v 1973-74 Shell Shield, Basseterre, 5–8 January 1974
- Lowest total against: 85 by Castries, 11–14 March 1966
Batting records
- Highest innings: 168 1980-81 Shell Shield, Queen's Park Oval, 17–20 January 1981
- Highest partnerships for each wicket:
Partnership | Runs | Players | Opposition | Venue | Season |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st wicket | 139 | Lockhart Sebastien & Michael Camacho | v Trinidad and Tobago |
Port of Spain | 1976-77
|
2nd wicket | 118 | Lockhart Sebastien & Jim Allen | v Trinidad and Tobago |
Basseterre | 1975-76
|
3rd wicket | 147 | Jim Allen & Viv Richards | v Guyana |
Rose Hall | 1973-74
|
4th wicket | 163 | Irvine Shillingford & Victor Eddy | v Trinidad and Tobago |
Port of Spain | 1976-77
|
5th wicket | 140 | Viv Richards & Derick Parry | v Jamaica |
Basseterre | 1980-81
|
6th wicket | 111 | Irvine Shillingford & Derick Parry | v Barbados |
Castries |
1977-78
|
7th wicket | 109 | Alford Corriette & Irvine Shillingford | v Trinidad and Tobago |
Port of Spain | 1972-73
|
8th wicket | 110 | Norbert Phillip & Elquemedo Willett | v Barbados |
Bridgetown | 1972-73
|
9th wicket | 146 | Victor Eddy & Hugh Gore | v Jamaica |
Kingstown |
1976-77
|
10th wicket | 62 | Mike Findlay & Hugh Gore | v Jamaica |
St John's | 1974-75
|
Bowling records
- Most wickets in an innings: 9-76, 1979-80 Shell Shield, Kingston, 21–24 March 1980
- Most wickets in a match: 15–101, 1979-80 Shell Shield, Kingston, 21–24 March 1980