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The Montserrat cricket team has represented the
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of
Montserrat Montserrat ( ) is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, with roughly of coastline. It is n ...
in
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. The team is not a member of the
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, but the Montserrat Cricket Association is a member of the
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, which itself is a member association of the
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, and players from Montserrat generally represent the
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at domestic level and the
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at international level. Montserrat has however played as a separate entity in matches which held
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status, but has not appeared in first-class or
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. The team was previously coached by Abdiel Hughes, who was appointed in April 2012. Their former
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was
McPherson Meade McPherson Meade (born 16 February 1979) is a West Indian cricketer. Meade is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He also plays football for the Montserrat football team as a goalkeeper. He was born on Montserrat. Meade app ...
.


History

A Montserrat cricket team first appeared in West Indian cricket in the 1912/13 Hesketh Bell Shield against
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at the
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. As the West Indies were yet to be granted
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status, this match did not hold first-class status. The team next appeared in the 1922/23 tournament against the same opposition, before appearing twice more in the 1925/26 competition against
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and Antigua, which was the year in which the team was first recorded as playing at
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in
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. The following year, they appeared in the 1927 competition, playing against Dominica and in the 1932 competition, where they played against
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. There is a long gap between that match and Montserrat's next recorded appearance, which came in the 1969 Hesketh Bell Shield against
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. The following year, Jim Allen, considered Monterrat's greatest sportsman,Fergus, H. (1996) ''Gallery Montserrat: Some Prominent People In Our History'', Canoe Press, Montserrat. . debuted for the island. However, he would not become the islands first first-class cricketer, as
William Duberry William Duberry (born 15 January 1944) is a former West Indian cricketer. Duberry's batting and bowling styles are unknown. He was born on Montserrat. Duberry made his first-class debut for the Leeward Islands against Barbados in the 1966/67 S ...
had played for the Leeward Islands in February 1967. Montserrat took part in the Hesketh Bell Shield and its replacement tournament, the Heineken Challenge Trophy, throughout most of the 1970s and the 1980s. Their participation in the tournament continued into the 1990s, with matches home throughout this period being held at Sturge Park, which has also held first-class cricket on six occasions up to 1994. From 1995, Montserrat was devastated by eruptions from
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. An eruption in 1997 destroyed Plymouth, with the resulting pyroclastic flows and ash fall from the eruption also destroying the main ground at Sturge Park, leaving the Montserratian team without first-class facilities. However, the team continued to play on in regional tournaments in the late 1990s. By 2000, the team had a new home ground, the Salem Oval at Salem, where first-class cricket has since returned to on three occasions. Most notably, the Salem cricket ground was host to an International ODI match between the West Indies and South Africa on April 12th of 2001. Having played in regional tournaments throughout the early to mid 2000s, Montserrat were invited to take part in the 2006 Stanford 20/20, whose matches held official
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status. Allan Stanford gave US$100,000 for their participation. They played one match in the tournament against
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, which they lost to their first-class opponents by 8 wickets, resulting in their elimination from the tournament. Two years later, they were invited to take part in the 2008 Stanford 20/20, playing and defeating the
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in a preliminary match, before losing to
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in the following round. In that same year,
Lionel Baker Lionel Sionne Baker (born 6 September 1984) is a West Indian former cricketer who has played first-class cricket for the Leeward Islands. He is the first person from Montserrat to have represented the West Indies at Test cricket. Personal life ...
became the first Montserratian to play
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and Test cricket for the West Indies.


Notable players

:''See List of Montserrat Twenty20 players and :Montserratian cricketers''


References


External links


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