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Barbados
UnionBarbados Rugby Football Union
Coach(es)Dennis Hargreaves
Captain(s)Dwight Forde
Team kit
First international
British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands 0 - 10 Barbados Barbados
(1996-06-15)
Largest win
Barbados Barbados 81 - 0 St Lucia Saint Lucia
(2005-08-13)
Largest defeat
United States United States 91 - 0 Barbados Barbados
(2006-01-07)

The Barbados national rugby union team represents Barbados at the sport of rugby union. Barbados has been playing international rugby union since the mid-1990s. They have thus far not qualified for a Rugby World Cup. Barbados has also hosted the Caribbean Championship.

History

Rugby union had a long history in Barbados, though there was originally only the one team, called the Barbados Rugby Union. In 1995 the union affiliated to the International Rugby Board (IRB).

Barbados made their international debut against the British Virgin Islands in 1996. Barbados won the match 10 to nil. They played three games the following year; losing to the Bahamas, Bermuda and Martinique. They played Trinidad & Tobago in 1999, losing nil to 15.

In 2001 they played the Bahamas again, defeating them 18 to 25, though they lost to Bermuda in their following fixture. In 2005 Barbados began their campaign to qualify for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, in the Round 1a of the Americas group. Competing in the South Pool, and won all three of their fixtures, defeating Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and St Lucia. Barbados finished at the top of their pool, sending them into a play-off match against the winner of the South Pool, the Bahamas. Played in Trinidad, Barbados defeated the Bahamas 52 to three. This sent them through to Round 3b, where they would play in a pool with Canada and the USA. Barbados lost both of their games, exiting the World Cup qualifiers.

During the qualification for the 2011 World Cup, Barbados were eliminated after a heavy defeat by Trinidad and Tobago.

Current squad

Squad to 2014 NACRA Championship [1]

Squad

  • Neil Forde
  • Greg Moseley-Clarke
  • Romeo Mayers
  • Kevin Murrell
  • Che Springer
  • Dwight Forde (c)
  • Jermaine Bynoe
  • Stephen Miller
  • Nico Blunt
  • Omar Bynoe
  • Jae Bowen
  • Nicholas Jackman
  • Troy Grant

Kevin Carter

  • Kenneth Payne
  • Sean Ward
  • Dario Stoute
  

Substitutes

  • Jamar Harewood
  • Jeren Clarke
  • Daniel Ramsay
  • Steve Atwell
  • Kofi Chase
  • Leandro Jordan

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/matches/match=12518/index.html
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