Red Stripe Cup 
The teams so far
The competition is held between the six Caribbean teams having enduring first class position. Four of the teams come from different countries, with two of the teams coming from island combinations and one with combined student’s teams. These two teams include the Windwards and the Leewards. Most of the titles were won by the Barbados team. Jamaica on the other hand has won around nine titles.
Some of the competing teams include Guyana, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Leeward Islands and Windward Islands. There is another team named the Combined Campuses and Colleges, a team from the university and college students across the West Indies.
Till date history of the competition
In 1965-66, the initial name of the tournament was ‘the Shell Shield’. Five teams had competed in this match. These teams contested in the 1961 knock out match in a round robin league. Each of this team had to play two home matches and the other two, away matches having the same format till 1981-82. However, it got lengthened to five games per team when the West Indies Cricket Board decided to split the Combined Islands. From 1965-66 to 1979-80, the Barbados team won and after four runners up spots in the previous six seasons, the Combined Islands won their first title in 1980-81.
In the 1986-87 season, the tournament was restricted and, there were only two round robin groups, which were determined by geography. By next season, this league was back and renamed to Red Stripe Cup. In 1989-90 season, Leeward Islands won their first entire five games in the league. But the next season, Barbados came to the top position.
For the next consecutive fourteen seasons, no team managed to make it to the topmost position for two seasons in a row. But, Leeward Islands and Barbados managed to swap the trophy for six seasons which was between 1993-94 and 1998-99. The West Indies Cricket Board by this time experimented with the formats. In 1995-96, a final match was played and by 1996-97, there was a home and away round robin format game. Overall, this format had ten matches.
Next season saw the Red Stripe withdrawing as a sponsor and the tournament getting renamed again as the President’s Cup with a cut down to five matches a team. For the 1998-99 season, Busta soft drink was in demand due to which, the name got changed to the Busta Cup. By this time, the tournament even got a semi final and a final match was added after its round robin. The 2000 season was dominated by the Jamaica and the Barbados teams as both the teams won the first six titles of the millennium. Barbados was the first team to defend their title in 1989 since Jamaica won it.
In 2000, other nation’s team participated in the Red Stripe Cup. These included Kenya, India A, Bangladesh A, West Indies B and England A with one team in each season. By 2004-05, semi final format was removed and the West Indies B team along with the tournament returned to a six-team league. During this period, the format was home and away matches. Here, it was a ten game league having a final match between the top two teams. By 2005-06 season this league returned to its usual format of only one round robin series. Due to this, the teams get to play almost five games prior to the top two playing in the Final.