St. Catherine Sport and Social Club

St. Catherine Sport and Social Club is a cricket club in Barbados. The club competes in the Barbados Cricket Association Division 1 championship with its home ground at Bayfield, Saint Philip.^[1] Unlike other Barbadian clubs such as Pickwick, Wanderers and Carlton, St Catherine began as a club primarily for the black population.^[2]

The club was originally a member of the Barbados Cricket League before being admitted to the elite Barbados Cricket Association in the 1970s.^[3] The club was admitted to Division 1 in 1978.^[4] St Catherine have won the Division 1 championship on three occasions, 2008, 1997 and 1981.^[5][6]

Cricketers from St Catherine include West Indies Test wicket-keeper Thelston Payne.^[7]

Notes

1. Tisdall, Nigel (23 December 2002). "Barbados: Cut-price paradise". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
2. Sandiford, p. 22.
3. Stoddart, p. 330.
4. Holder, Keith (23 November 2008). "BNB St. Catherine capture 2008 BCA Caribbean Alliance Insurance Div.1 title". Barbados Cricket Association. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
5. Harris, Alan (24 November 2008). "St. Catherine are Kings of local cricket". Barbados Advocate. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
6. Howard, Elvis (27 April 2008). "2008 Div.1 season previews – Banks, Barbados Youth, Empire, Carlton". Barbados Cricket Association. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
7. Stuart, Ezra (11 February 2003). "Barbados club starts new innings". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 5 July 2011.

References

• Sandiford, Keith A. P. (1998). Cricket Nurseries of colonial Barbados: The elite schools 1865-1966. Kingston: The Press University of the West Indies. ISBN 976-640-046-6.
• Stoddart, Brian (1987). "Cricket, Social Formation and Cultural Continuity in Barbados: A Preliminary Ethnohistory" (PDF). Journal of Sport History. 14 (3). Retrieved 30 June 2011.