Editing Montserrat (section)

== Sport ==

===Yachting===
Montserrat is home to the Montserrat Yachting Association.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yachting.ms/en |title=Yacht registration, training and certification of yachtsmen |website=Montserrat Yachting Association |author=AlMirSoft |access-date=23 September 2016 |archive-date=13 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913193143/http://www.yachting.ms/en |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Athletics ===
Montserrat has competed in every [[Commonwealth Games]] since 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thecgf.com/countries/intro.asp?loc=MSR |title=Commonwealth Games Countries: Montserrat |website=Commonwealth Games Federation |access-date=24 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626021836/http://thecgf.com/countries/intro.asp?loc=MSR |archive-date=26 June 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Miguel Francis]] who now represents the United Kingdom and previously represented Antigua and Barbuda was born in Montserrat. He holds the Antiguan National record over [[200m]] in 19.88.<ref>{{cite web |title="IT WAS SUCH AN EUPHORIC MOMENT" MANAGER SAYS OF FRANCIS' 19.88 |url=https://trackalerts.com/it-was-such-an-euphoric-moment-manager-says-of-francis-19-88/ |website=trackalerts.com |date=21 June 2016 |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326030731/https://trackalerts.com/it-was-such-an-euphoric-moment-manager-says-of-francis-19-88/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Francis moved to Antigua and Barbuda after a volcanic eruption on the island in 1995 displaced him and his family |url=https://www.skysports.com/more-sports/athletics/news/29175/10827250/miguel-francis-switches-allegiance-to-great-britain-from-antigua-and-barbuda |access-date=14 February 2022 |publisher=skysports |archive-date=31 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221231065444/https://www.skysports.com/more-sports/athletics/news/29175/10827250/miguel-francis-switches-allegiance-to-great-britain-from-antigua-and-barbuda |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Basketball ===
Basketball is growing in popularity in Montserrat with the country now setting up their own basketball league.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.montserratbasketball.com/ |title=Montserrat Volcanos |website=Montserrat Amateur Basketball Association |access-date=8 July 2017 |archive-date=27 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327131830/http://montserratbasketball.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.themontserratreporter.com/village-basketball-league-makes-a-comeback/ |title=Village basketball league makes a comeback |date=11 July 2012 |newspaper=[[The Montserrat Reporter]] |access-date=8 July 2017 |archive-date=4 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604120044/https://www.themontserratreporter.com/village-basketball-league-makes-a-comeback/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The league contains six teams, which are the Look-Out Shooters, Davy Hill Ras Valley, Cudjoe Head Renegades, St. Peters Hilltop, Salem Jammers and MSS School Warriors.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsy4tyTUT2M | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/bsy4tyTUT2M| archive-date=2021-10-28|title=Montserrat 2015 basketball Championship game Salem Jammers vs. Lookout Shooters |first=Warren |last=Cassell |date=18 July 2015 |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=8 July 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> They have also built a new 800 seater complex which cost $1.5&nbsp;million.

=== Cricket ===
In common with many Caribbean islands, [[cricket]] is a very popular sport in Montserrat. Players from Montserrat are eligible to play for the [[West Indies cricket team]]. [[Jim Allen (cricketer)|Jim Allen]] was the first to play for the West Indies and he represented the [[World Series Cricket]] West Indians, although, with a very small population, no other player from Montserrat had gone on to represent the West Indies until [[Lionel Baker]] made his One Day International debut against Pakistan in November 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cricketworld.com/late-show-wins-it-for-pakistan-in-abu-dhabi/18013.htm |title=Late Show Wins It For Pakistan In Abu Dhabi |website=CricketWorld.com |date=12 November 2008 |access-date=8 July 2017 |archive-date=24 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724115514/https://www.cricketworld.com/late-show-wins-it-for-pakistan-in-abu-dhabi/18013.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Montserrat cricket team]] forms a part of the [[Leeward Islands cricket team]] in regional domestic cricket; however, it plays as a separate entity in minor regional matches,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/3/3028/Other_Matches.html |title=Other Matches played by Montserrat |website=CricketArchive |access-date=12 October 2012 |archive-date=21 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221235153/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/3/3028/Other_Matches.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> as well having previously played [[Twenty20]] cricket in the [[Stanford 20/20]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/3/3028/Twenty20_Matches.html |title=Twenty20 Matches played by Montserrat |website=CricketArchive |access-date=7 October 2012 |archive-date=21 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221235211/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/3/3028/Twenty20_Matches.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Two grounds on the island have held [[first-class cricket|first-class]] matches for the Leeward Islands, the first and most historic was [[Sturge Park]] in Plymouth, which had been in use since the 1920s. This was destroyed in 1997 by the volcanic eruption. A new ground, the [[Salem Oval]], was constructed and opened in 2000. This has also held first-class cricket. A second ground has been constructed at Little Bay.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ukinmontserrat.fco.gov.uk/en/island-of-montserrat/ |title=Island of Montserrat |website=[[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] |access-date=13 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701085551/http://ukinmontserrat.fco.gov.uk/en/island-of-montserrat |archive-date=1 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Football ===
{{Main|Football in Montserrat|Montserrat Football Association|Montserrat national football team}}
Montserrat has its own [[FIFA]] affiliated [[Montserrat national football team|football team]], and has competed in the World Cup qualifiers five times but failed to advance to the finals from 2002 to 2018. A field for the team was built near the airport by FIFA. In 2002, the team competed in a friendly match with the second-lowest-ranked team in FIFA at that time, [[Bhutan national football team|Bhutan]], in ''[[The Other Final]]'', the same day as the final of the [[2002 World Cup]]. Bhutan won 4–0. Montserrat has failed to qualify for any [[FIFA World Cup]]. They have also failed to ever qualify for the [[CONCACAF Gold Cup|Gold Cup]] and [[Caribbean Cup]]. The current national team relies mostly on the [[diaspora]] resident in [[England]] and in the last World Cup qualification game against [[Curaçao national football team|Curaçao]] nearly all the squad members played and lived in England.{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}}

Montserrat has a club league, the [[Montserrat Championship]], which has played sporadically since 1974. The league was most recently on hiatus from 2005 until 2015 but restarted play in 2016.

=== Surfing ===
[[File:Surfing Montserrat.jpg|alt=Montserrat's surfers, Carrll and Gary Robilotta|thumb|upright|Surfer brothers Carrll and Gary Robilotta at Isle's Bay, Montserrat]]
Carrll Robilotta, whose parents moved from the United States to Montserrat in 1980, was responsible for pioneering the sport of surfing on the island. He and his brother Gary explored, discovered, and named the surf spots on the island during the 80s and early 90s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Montserrat Boardriders Club - About Us |url=http://www.montserratsurfvilla.com/about-us.html |access-date=2022-06-15 |website=www.montserratsurfvilla.com |archive-date=16 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816060713/http://www.montserratsurfvilla.com/About-Us.html |url-status=live }}</ref>