Dominica national cricket team

A Dominica cricket team first appeared in West Indian cricket in the 1912/13 Hesketh Bell Shield against Saint Kitts at the Antigua Recreation Ground. The team is next recorded playing twelve years later in the 1925/26 Hesketh Bell Shield, with Dominica playing in the Shield until 1932, later playing in the Cork Windward Islands Challenge Cup in 1938 and 1939. Dominica continued to play in the Windward Islands Tournament, and from 1975 its successor, the Heineken Trophy. They played one match in the tournament, a 6 wicket defeat to Grenada. Two years later, they were invited to take part in the 2008 Stanford 20/20, playing two matches in the tournament, defeating the British Virgin Islands in the preliminary round, before losing to Barbados in the following round. These matches mark Dominica's only major appearances in cricket. ==Notable players==

International players Five players from Dominica have represented the West Indies Internationally. • Apps denotes the number of appearances the player has made. • Runs denotes the number of runs scored by the player. • Wkts denotes the number of wickets taken by the player. • Phillip DeFreitas, another Dominican cricketer represented England after moving there at a young age. He played 44 test matches and 103 ODIs for England. Many other Dominican players have represented the Windward Islands domestically in the West Indies Regional Super50, Regional Four Day Competition and the Caribbean Twenty20. ===Dominica players on the current Windward Islands team=== • Shane Shillingford. • Liam Sebastien • Tyrone Theophile • Mervin Matthew *Alick Athanaze *Kavem Hodge See also List of Windward Islands first-class cricketers • See List of Dominica Twenty20 players and :Category:Dominica cricketers ==References==