Guyana national cricket team

Guyana National Cricket Team
Captain:	Assad Fudadin
Coach:	Mark Harper
Colours:	Green      Yellow      Red
Founded:	1965
Home ground:	Bourda
Capacity:	22,000
Four Day wins:	5 (plus 1 shared)
WICB Cup wins:	7 (plus 2 shared)
Twenty20 wins:	2

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 Carib Beer Cup and the KFC Cup, and the best players may be selected for the West Indies team which plays international cricket.

Guyana has won the domestic first class title five 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 Guystac Trophy.

The list of prominent cricketers who have played for Guyana includes Basil Butcher, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Colin Croft, Roy Fredericks, Lance Gibbs, Roger Harper, Carl Hooper, Alvin Kallicharran, Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd and Ramnaresh Sarwan.

Roger Harper, cricketer turned coach

Grounds

Guyana's main home ground is the Bourda ground in Georgetown, where they have played 131 of their 181 first class home games, and which has also hosted 30 Test matches with the West Indies. Other grounds include the Albion Sports Complex in the Berbice region, which has hosted 24 Guyana matches and five ODIs, and from 1997-98 Guyana began to use the Enmore Recreation Ground, where they have played five games. In 2004-05 they also played a match at Hampton Court in Essequibo, their first first-class match there in 17 seasons.

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Nat	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
6	Shivnarine Chanderpaul		(1974-08-16) 16 August 1974	Left-handed	Right arm leg break	Not Included in CLT20 Squad
10	Travis Dowlin		(1977-02-24) 24 February 1977	Right-handed	Right arm off break
25	Jonathan Foo		(1990-09-11) 11 September 1990	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
53	Ramnaresh Sarwan		(1980-06-23) 23 June 1980	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
65	Sewnarine Chattergoon		(1981-04-03) 3 April 1981	Left-handed	Right arm leg break
??	Steven Jacobs		(1988-09-13) 13 September 1988	Right-handed	Right arm off break
??	Assad Fudadin		(1985-08-01) 1 August 1985	Left-handed	Right arm medium-fast	Captain
??	Richard Ramdeen		(1988-02-16) 16 February 1988	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
??	Gajanand Singh		(1987-10-03) 3 October 1987	Left-handed	Left arm medium pace	Not Included in CLT20 Squad
??	Leon Johnson		(1987-08-08) 8 August 1987	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	Not Included in CLT20 Squad
All-rounders
2	Royston Crandon		(1983-05-31) 31 May 1983	Right-handed	Right arm off break
28	Narsingh Deonarine		(1983-08-16) 16 August 1983	Left-handed	Right arm off break
54	Esuan Crandon		(1981-12-17) 17 December 1981	Right-handed	Right arm fast
71	Lennox Cush		(1974-12-12) 12 December 1974	Right-handed	Right arm off break
90	Christopher Barnwell		(1987-01-06) 6 January 1987	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
Wicket-keepers
11	Derwin Christian		(1983-05-09) 9 May 1983	Right-handed	—
Bowlers
20	Devendra Bishoo		(1985-11-06) 6 November 1985	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
33	Paul Wintz		(1986-03-07) 7 March 1986	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
??	Brandon Bess		(1987-12-13) 13 December 1987	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium	Not Included in CLT20 Squad

Sources: Cricinfo, Guyana Cricket Board, CLT20 15-man Squad

Most runs for Guyana

Player	Runs	Average	Centuries
Clayton Lambert	4680	48.75	14 [1]
Roy Fredericks	4344	70.06	15 [2]
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	3913	63.11	12 [3]
Carl Hooper	3372	58.13	13 [4]
Clive Lloyd	3102	66.00	12 [5]

Honours

• Regional Four Day Competition (6): 1972–73, 1974–75, 1982–83, 1986–87, 1992–93, 1997–98 (shared)

• Domestic one-day competition (9): 1979–80, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1992–93 (shared), 1995–96 (shared), 1998–99, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2005–06

• Caribbean Twenty20 (1): 2010

• Inter-Colonial Tournament (defunct) (5): 1895–96, 1929–30, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1937–38

• Stanford 20/20 (defunct) (1): 2008

See also

• List of international cricketers from Guyana

References

• Cricinfo
• CricketArchive
• 2005-06 KFC Cup Squad from Cricinfo