Roland Osbert Cato (born 23 November 1997) is a
Grenadian cricketer who has played for the
West Indies under-19s team. He is a right-handed middle-order batsman.
Cato was born in
Saint Andrew Parish, and has played for the
Windward Islands
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at under-19 level, but is yet to make his senior debut. His debut for the West Indies under-19s came at the
2014–15 Regional Super50
The 2014–15 NAGICO Super50 was the 41st season of the Regional Super50, the domestic limited-overs cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The competition was played as a standalone tournament, with all ...
, where matches held
List A
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...
status. Cato played in all three of his team's matches in the competition, against
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, small ...
, the
Leeward Islands, and
Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispan ...
. His best performance came against the Leewards, when he scored 46 runs from 71 balls.
He made his
first-class debut for the Windward Islands in the
2016–17 Regional Four Day Competition
The 2016–17 Regional Four Day Competition was the 51st edition of the Regional Four Day Competition, the domestic first-class cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The competition ran from 11 November 20 ...
on 16 December 2016.
In June 2018, he was named in the
Cricket West Indies B Team squad for the
inaugural edition of the
Global T20 Canada
The Global T20 Canada is a 20-over cricket tournament played in Canada. The first edition of the tournament took place during June and July 2018 with six teams competing. Each team featured four local Canadian cricketers in each squad, along w ...
tournament.
He made his
Twenty20
Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the county cricket, inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have ...
debut on 12 September 2019, for the
St Lucia Zouks
Saint Lucia Kings (formerly known as St Lucia Stars and St Lucia Zouks) are the representative team of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) of cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven pla ...
, in the
2019 Caribbean Premier League
The 2019 Caribbean Premier League (CPLT20) or for sponsorship reasons, Hero CPL 2019 was the seventh season of the Caribbean Premier League, the domestic Twenty20 cricket league in the West Indies. Matches were played in six countries – ...
. The following month, he was named in the West Indies Emerging Team for the
2019–20 Regional Super50
The 2019–20 Regional Super50 was the 46th edition of the Regional Super50, the domestic limited-overs cricket competition for the countries of the Cricket West Indies (CWI). The tournament started on 6 November 2019, with the final taking pla ...
tournament.
References
External links
Player profile and statisticsa
CricketArchivea
ESPNcricinfo
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1997 births
Living people
Grenadian cricketers
Windward Islands cricketers
Saint Lucia Kings cricketers
People from Saint Andrew Parish, Grenada
West Indies under-19 cricketers
West Indies Emerging Team cricketers