Boys' Town Cricket Club | |
Oneday Name: | Beavers |
Coach: | Ricardo McGeachy Snr |
Captain: | Samalie Brown |
Colors: | Red and Black |
Founded: | c1940 |
Ground: | Boys' Town |
Title1: | Senior Cup |
Title1wins: | 1960, 1970, 1973, 2003 |
Boys' Town Cricket Club is a cricket club based in the Trenchtown neighbourhood of Kingston, Jamaica. The club developed from the Boys' Town institution, a community organisation founded by Hugh Sherlock, a Methodist minister and writer of the Jamaican national anthem, to provide education and sporting opportunities for poor children.[1] Boys' Town is considered a working class club that "drew talent that the middle-class clubs were not open to nurturing".[2]
The West Indian Test cricketer Collie Smith played for Boys' Town before his death in a motor vehicle accident in England in 1959. The next year, the West Indian Test captain Frank Worrell led Boys' Town to victory for the first time in the Senior Cup - the premier cricket championship in Jamaica.
In 2003, the club won the Senior Cup for the first time since 1973.[3]