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The British Virgin Islands cricket team has represented the British overseas territory of the British Virgin Islands in cricket. The team is not a member of the International Cricket Council, but is a member of the Leeward Islands Cricket Association, which itself is a member association of the West Indies Cricket Board, and players from the British Virgin Islands generally represent the Leeward Islands cricket team at domestic level and the West Indies at international level. The British Virgin Islands have however played as a separate entity in matches which held Twenty20 status, but has not appeared in first-class or List A cricket. ==History== A British Virgin Islands cricket team first appeared in West Indian cricket in the 1991 Leeward Islands Tournament against the United States Virgin Islands at the Lionel Roberts Stadium, Charlotte Amalie.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Other Matches played by British Virgin Islands )〕 Prior to that a Combined Virgin Islands team had taken part in the 1988 Leeward Islands Tournament.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Other matches played by Combined Virgin Islands )〕 The following season the team played against a touring Marylebone Cricket Club side and throughout the 1990s it participated in the Leeward Islands One-Day tournament.〔 Its participation in that tournament continued until 1998〔 after which its place was taken by a reconstituted Combined Virgin Islands team〔 before the BVI again started participating separately for the one-day tournaments in 2003 and 2004〔 while a Combined Virgin Islands team participated in the Leeward Islands 3-day tournament.〔 In February 2002 the islands hosted their only first-class cricket match, when the Leeward Islands played the Windward Islands at the A.O. Shirley Recreation Ground, Roadtown.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First-Class Matches played on A.O. Shirley Recreation Ground, Roadtown )〕 In 2005 the BVI and USVI again ceased to participate separately in all Leeward Islands tournaments (one day and three-day tournaments) and their places were taken by the Combined Virgin Islands until 2008〔 after which they participated separately again in all Leeward Islands tournaments.〔 As part of Allen Stanford's vision for cricket in the West Indies, the United States Virgin Islands were invited to take part in the 2006 Stanford 20/20, whose matches held official Twenty20 status.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Twenty20 Matches played by British Virgin Islands )〕 Stanford gave US$100,000 for their participation. They played a single match in the tournament, losing to Saint Lucia by 7 wickets in their preliminary round match.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=British Virgin Islands v Saint Lucia, 2006 Stanford 20/20 )〕 Two years later, they were invited to take part in the 2008 Stanford 20/20,〔 playing a single preliminary round match against Dominica, which they lost by 66 runs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=British Virgin Islands v Dominica, 2007/08 Stanford 20/20 )〕 Following the reorganisation of domestic Twenty20 cricket in the West Indies in the aftermath of the fraud convictions against Allen Stanford, the United States Virgin Islands were excluded from the revamped regional tournament. The team's last recorded appearance in the Leeward Islands One-Day Tournament came against Nevis in 2011.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「British Virgin Islands cricket team」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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