Trinidad is rich in cricket history and teams from Trinidad first played cricket from as early as 1869. Trinidad has the region’s oldest cricket club, Queen’s Park Cricket Club, which was founded in 1891 and quickly became the leading cricket club in the country and remains so to the present day. The Queen’s Park Oval (home to the Queen’s Park Cricket Club) saw its first Test Match on February 1st 1930 and it has grown into one of the premier international cricket venues in the region.
As one of the most popular sports in Trinidad, the country boasts such great players as Sir Learie Constantine, Sonny Ramadhin, Deryck Murray, Larry Gomes and Ian Bishop all of whom are known internationally and considered great West Indies players. By far Trinidad’s most famous son is the great Brian Lara, known affectionately in Trinidad as the Prince of Port of Spain. As the holder of the world record for the highest test score (400 scored at the Antigua Recreation Ground), Lara is considered to be one of the greatest players ever to have graced the game.
Current players in the West Indies team from Trinidad include Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Darren Bravo, Ravi Rampaul and Denesh Ramdin to name a few.
Cricket has been the national pastime of Barbados almost from the beginning of the country’s history, having been introduced to the island by the early English settlers. It is often played in the nation’s streets with homemade bats and taped tennis balls, or on one of the many cricket grounds around the island.
Barbados’ most famous cricket ground is the Kensington Oval located less than a mile from the heart of the capital of Barbados, Bridgetown. This historic and centuries old home to international cricket was transformed and restored in 2007.
Barbados is the home to Sir Garfield Sobers, who is generally regarded as “the greatest cricketer the world has ever seen”. Other cricketing luminaries include Sir Frank Worrell, Sir Everton Weekes, Sir Clyde Walcott, Seymour Nurse, fiery pace bowlers Wes Hall, Charlie Griffith and Malcolm Marshall and opening batsmen Desmond Haynes and Gordon Greenidge who have all put the name of Barbados on the world cricketing map.
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