"In the early 1980s there were scores of Caribbean cricket clubs playing across England, many of them bearing evocative names such as New Calypsonians, Island Taverners, Paragon, Starlight and Carib United. Mostly these clubs operated under the radar as wandering sides renting pitches on municipal grounds that were outside the traditional league structures. With few physical records of their existence, their history has been in danger of being lost as numbers have plummeted since the late 1990s."
"So far the archive has logged 130 clubs, from Cowley West Indians in Oxford and Brixton Beehives in London to Mead Brooke Cavaliers in High Wycombe and West Indian Carib in Nottingham. They're all in England, but there are more to be mapped, and others may emerge in different parts of the United Kingdom. Collins is not sure if the project will ever log all the clubs that existed, but his research suggests the figure on the database may rise to 150 or more,"
From the late 1940s through the 1980s Caribbean migrants established dozens of cricket clubs across England with evocative names such as New Calypsonians, Island Taverners, Paragon, Starlight and Carib United. Most clubs operated informally as wandering sides renting municipal pitches outside traditional league structures, leaving few physical records. Club numbers plummeted after the late 1990s, risking loss of this history. A UCL-sponsored Windrush Cricket Project created the Caribbean Cricket Archive, recording clubs in the UK since Leeds Caribbean CC in 1948; the archive has logged 130 clubs in England and may rise to 150 or more. These clubs supplied much early black cricketing talent.
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