the following year a combined leeward and windward islands team played a first-class match against guyana in the 1976/77 shell shield. in 1978, the ground held its first list a match when the leeward islands played trinidad and tobago in the 1977/78 geddes grant/harrison line trophy. throughout the 1970s, the ground was continuously used by montserrat in its minor matches against regional neighbours. a second list a match was played there in 1980, between the leeward islands and trinidad and tobago in the 1979/80 geddes grant/harrison line trophy, while the following year a further first-class match was played there when the leeward islands played a touring england xi. the next first-class fixture there came two years later, when the leeward islands played jamaica in the 1982/83 shell shield. two further list a matches were played there in the 1980s, the first seeing the leeward islands play guyana in the 1984/85 geddes grant/harrison line trophy, while the second saw them play the windward islands in the 1987/88 competition. again in use by montserrat throughout the 1980s, first-class cricket would not return there until 1994, when the leeward islands played trinidad and tobago in the 1993/94 red stripe cup. the previous year, it had held a list a match between the leeward islands and barbados in the 1992/93 geddes grant shield. unknowingly at the time, these would be the last major matches to be played there.