Changes to venues in Barbados

The Barbados Cricket Association has switched the venues for the first three matches it will host in this year's West Indies first-class championship that opens on Friday, January 31.

Windward Sports Club in the rural district of Lucas Street in the eastern parish of St. Philip will now host the first two matches to be contested in the island between West Indies-B and India-A from January 31 to February 3, and Barbados and India-A from February 7 to 10.

North Stars Cricket Club in the rural district of Crab Hill in the northern most parish of St. Lucy now stages the third round game between Barbados and Jamaica from February 14 to 17.

Because of rehabilitative work being conducted on Kensington Oval, this venue will not be ready in time for the start of the Championship, remarked Michael Hall, chief cricket operations officer of the West Indies Cricket Board.

It will be the first time the two Barbadian grounds will be hosting matches in the West Indies first-class championship, but Windward previously staged a first-class contest between Barbados and South Africa-A two years ago.

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