Combined Campuses and Colleges cricket team

Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) is a List A cricket team and former first-class cricket team composed of west Indian collegiate and university students. The side previously featured in the Regional Four Day Competition and currently plays in the Regional Super50. The CCC also won the 2018–19 Regional Super50, their only major title as of now.[2][3]

Combined Campuses and Colleges
Personnel
CaptainBarbados Omar Phillips (First-class)
Barbados Denesh Ramdin (List A)[1]
CoachBarbados Pedro Collins
Team information
Colours  Blue
Founded2007
Home groundThree Ws Oval, Bridgetown
Capacity20,000
History
Four Day wins0
Super50 Cup wins1
CT20 wins0
Official websiteCCC

Team History

Effectively a continuation of the previous University of the West Indies cricket team, the team was created for the 2007/08 season and played their first matches in the KFC Cup one-day competition in October 2007. CCC made their four-day debut in the Carib Beer Cup in January 2008, they finished their maiden season with one win from six matches, finishing bottom of the league.[4] In their second season of the four-day competition they improved, winning four out of 12 matches and finishing on an equal number of points with Barbados.[5]

In 2011, CCC had a good first-class season in which they reached the final along with Jamaica. It was CCC's best performance thus far in the competition. They progressed to the final by posting victories against Barbados, the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands and Guyana. However, CCC were no match for a strong Jamaica team, who won easily. In the 2012 Caribbean 4-day competition, CCC dismissed the Leeward Islands for 39 en route to winning by an innings and 15 runs.[6]

In July 2014, the WICB announced that the CCC cricket team was to be excluded from the upcoming 2014-15 Regional Four Day competition as part of a series of changes adopted based on the recommendations made in a report presented by Richard Pybus, WICB's director of cricket, in March 2014.[7]

In 2017 a similar team by nature (with some of the same players) as the CCC, called the Combined Universities and Campuses (CUC) made its debut in Jamaica's new premier two-day domestic cricket competition, the Jamaica Cricket Association Super League.[8]

In October 2018, they beat Trinidad and Tobago in the final of the 2018–19 Regional Super50 to win their first title in the competition.[3][2]

References
  1. Ramphal, Vidia (28 October 2022). "Ramdin captains CCC team in Super50 Cup". loopnews.com. Loop News.
  2. "CCC lifts Super50 crown". Trinidad and Tobago Guardian. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  3. "Combined Colleges and Campuses claim historic Super50 crown". Sports Max. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  4. Carib Beer Cup 2007/08 Table, CricketArchive, Retrieved on 29 December 2008
  5. Regional Four Day Competition 2008/09 Table, CricketArchive, Retrieved on 8 June 2009
  6. "Austin's ten-for routs Leeward in two days". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  7. "Combined Campuses and Colleges excluded from WI first-class". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  8. "Six-team JCA Super League launched". Jamaica Gleaner. 12 September 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
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