The Jamaica cricket team is the representative first class cricket team of Jamaica.
It does not take part in any international competitions (the 1998 Commonwealth Games tournament being an exception), but rather in inter-regional competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Carib Beer Cup and the KFC Cup, and the best players may be selected for the West Indies team, who plays international cricket. Jamaica has won the domestic first class competition six times, and they have also won the one-day competition five times - and shared the title once.
The team's history lasts back to 1895, when they played three matches against a touring side from England led by Slade Lucas, but because of the distance to the other cricketing countries, Jamaica did not play regular first-class cricket until 1964. They played in the inaugural Shell Shield first-class competition, winning it on the fourth attempt, but then had to wait until 1977-78 for their next title - which was a shared one-day title with Leeward Islands.
