Empire Cricket Club

The club plays in Barbados Cricket Association Division 1 championship.

The club was formed by a defection of disaffected members of Spartan Cricket Club, when Spartan had refused membership to the "socially inferior" Barbadian cricketer Herman Griffith in 1913.

Racial and social prejudice in Barbados cricket precluded the club from play in the Barbados first division cricket competition by two turn downs, until 1916 when a casting vote secured entry into the competition after a 2–2 vote.

Wanderers and Harrison College supporting their inclusion while Pickwick and Spartan opposed it.

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