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LIME Sports Club

cricket club in Barbados

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ6458712 ↗
Source-derived summary

LIME Sports Club is a cricket club in Barbados. The club competes in the Barbados Cricket Association Division 1 competition, the premier cricket competition in Barbados. The club was established for employees of Barbados External Telecommunications (BET), later Cable & Wireless, and since 2008, LIME.

The club first competed in the Intermediate Division and after years of success was promoted to Division 1 in 1989. In its first year, BET finished 10th in the 14-team competition. In 1994, the club broke through for its first Division 1 championship in 1994 when it shared the title with Spartan.

Notable cricketers associated with LIME include former West Indies wicket-keeper Courtney Browne.

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“LIME Sports Club” enters the record as cricket club in Barbados. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what LIME, Sports and Club can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 1989, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around LIME, Sports and Club.
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“LIME Sports Club” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, LIME, Sports and Club provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6458712. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008, 1989 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “LIME Sports Club” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.