Early Cricket References
- 1780s – the Barbados Cricket Buckle, depicting a mulatto batsman wearing a slave collar being bowled out, suggests that slaves in the West Indies were playing cricket as early as 1780.
- On 10 May 1806, a meeting of St Anne’s Cricket Club in Barbados was announced in the 'Barbados Mercury' to take play on 12 May
- 1842 – Trinidad Cricket Club already "of very long standing"
- 1850 – cricket being played by the pupils of St. George's College, Kingston, Jamaica
- 1857 – Vere and Clarendon Cricket Clubs founded in Jamaica, neither last long
- 1858 – formation of Georgetown Cricket Club in British Guiana
- 1861 – first full score of a Barbados match: St Michael's Club against The Lodge School
- 1863 – Kingston Cricket Club founded in Jamaica
Read more about this topic: History Of Cricket In The West Indies To 1918
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