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{{short description|Cricket team}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricket team
|name        = Combined Campuses and Colleges
|image         =
|colours        = {{color box|#213965}} Blue
|coach         = {{flagicon|BAR}} [[Floyd Reifer]]
|captain       = {{flagicon|BAR}} [[Shane Dowrich]] (List A)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.windiescricket.com/news/combined-campuses-and-colleges-squad-named-for-cg-united-super50-cup/|title=COMBINED CAMPUSES AND COLLEGES SQUAD NAMED FOR CG UNITED SUPER50 CUP|date=14 October 2023|publisher=windies cricket|website=windiescricket.com}}</ref>
|founded       = 2007
|ground        = [[Three Ws Oval]], [[Bridgetown]]
|capacity      = 20,000
|title1        = [[Regional Four Day Competition|Four Day]]
|title1wins    = 0
|title2        = [[Super50 Cup]]
|title2wins    = 1
|title3        = [[Caribbean T20|CT20]]
|title3wins    = 0
|website       = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/current/team/315248.html CCC]
}}
'''Combined Campuses and Colleges''' (CCC) is a [[first-class cricket|first-class]] and [[List A cricket]] team composed of West Indian collegiate and university students. The side competes in the [[Regional Four Day Competition]] and the [[Regional Super50]]. The CCC won the [[2018–19 Regional Super50]], their only major title so far.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
== Team history ==
Effectively a continuation of the previous [[University of the West Indies cricket team]], the team was created for the 2007/08 season and played their first matches in the KFC Cup one-day competition in October 2007. CCC made their four-day debut in the Carib Beer Cup in January 2008, they finished their maiden season with one win from six matches, finishing bottom of the league.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/Tables/Carib_Beer_Cup_2007-08.html Carib Beer Cup 2007/08 Table], CricketArchive, Retrieved on 29 December 2008</ref> In their second season of the four-day competition they improved, winning four out of 12 matches and finishing on an equal number of points with [[Barbados national cricket team|Barbados]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/Tables/Regional_Four_Day_Competition_2008-09.html Regional Four Day Competition 2008/09 Table], CricketArchive, Retrieved on 8 June 2009</ref>
In 2011, CCC had a good first-class season in which they reached the final along with Jamaica. It was CCC's best performance thus far in the competition. They progressed to the final by posting victories against Barbados, the [[Leeward Islands cricket team|Leeward Islands]], the [[Windward Islands cricket team|Windward Islands]] and [[Guyana national cricket team|Guyana]]. However, CCC were no match for a strong Jamaica team, who won easily. In the 2012 Caribbean 4-day competition, CCC dismissed the Leeward Islands for 39 en route to winning by an innings and 15 runs.<ref>{{cite web |title=Austin's ten-for routs Leeward in two days |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/regional-four-day-competition-2011-12-540546/combined-campuses-and-colleges-vs-leeward-islands-540550/match-report |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=13 October 2023}}</ref>
In July 2014, the WICB announced that the CCC cricket team was to be excluded from the upcoming 2014-15 Regional Four Day competition as part of a series of changes adopted based on the recommendations made in a report presented by [[Richard Pybus]], WICB's director of cricket, in March 2014.<ref name="CCC excluded">{{cite web |title=Combined Campuses and Colleges excluded from WI first-class |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/combined-campuses-and-colleges-excluded-from-wi-first-class-762707 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=13 October 2023}}</ref>
In 2017 a similar team by nature (with some of the same players) as the CCC, called the Combined Universities and Campuses (CUC) made its debut in Jamaica's new premier two-day domestic cricket competition, the Jamaica Cricket Association Super League.<ref name="JCA Super League launched">{{cite news |title=Six-team JCA Super League launched |url=https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/sports/20170913/six-team-jca-super-league-launched |access-date=13 October 2023 |work=Jamaica Gleaner |date=12 September 2017}}</ref>
In October 2018, they beat [[Trinidad and Tobago cricket team|Trinidad and Tobago]] in the final of the [[2018–19 Regional Super50]] to win their first title in the competition.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |url=https://sportsmax.tv/index.php/cricket/cricket-regional/item/22010-combined-colleges-and-campuses-claim-historic-super50-crown |title=Combined Colleges and Campuses claim historic Super50 crown |work=Sports Max |access-date=29 October 2018 |archive-date=29 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029152308/https://sportsmax.tv/index.php/cricket/cricket-regional/item/22010-combined-colleges-and-campuses-claim-historic-super50-crown |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.tt/sports/ccc-lifts-super50-crown-6.2.702214.d1cc1b3971 |title=CCC lifts Super50 crown |work=Trinidad and Tobago Guardian |access-date=29 October 2018}}</ref>
== Honours ==
* '''[[Super50 Cup|Domestic one-day competition]] (1):'''
**[[2018-19 Regional Super50 |2018-19]]
==Squad==
{{Updated|October 2023}}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%"
|-
! Name
! Birth date
! Batting style
! Bowling style
! Notes
|-
|-
|}
* [[Shane Dowrich]] (C)
* [[Johann Jeremiah]]
* [[Shatrughan Rambaran]]
* [[Shaqkere Parris]]
* [[Demario Richards]]
* [[Jordan Johnson (cricketer)|Jordan Johnson]]
* [[Akshaya Persad]]
* [[Kirstan Kallicharan]]
* [[Romario Greaves]]
* [[Abhijai Mansingh]]
* [[Chemar Holder]]
* [[Isai Thorne]]
* [[Kadeem Alleyne]]
* [[Jediah Blades]]
== Grounds ==
Combined Campuses and Colleges cricket team main ground is at [[Three Ws Oval]] in [[Bridgetown]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{West Indies first class cricket teams}}
{{Caribbean Twenty20}}
[[Category:West Indian first-class cricket teams]]