West Indies cricket team

"Windies" redirects here. For the geographical area, see West Indies.
West Indies
West Indies cricket crest
Test status acquired 1928
First Test match v  England at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, 23–26 June 1928 (scorecard)
Captain Jason Holder (Test & ODI)
Darren Sammy#88 (T20I)
Coach Phil Simmons
Current ICC Test, ODI and T20I ranking 8th (Test)
9th (ODI)
2nd (T20I)[1]
All-time best ICC Test, ODI and T20I ranking 1st (Test)
1st (ODI)
1st (T20I)
Test matches
– This year		 513[2]
1[3]
Last Test match {{{most recent test match}}}
Wins/losses
– This year		 164/177 (171 draws, 1 tie)[2]
0/0 (1 draw)[3]
As of 10 January 2016

The West Indies cricket team, also known colloquially as the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing the West Indies Cricket Board, a confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.

From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the West Indies team was one of the strongest in the world in both Test and One Day International cricket. A number of cricketers considered among the best in the world have hailed from the West Indies: Sir Garfield Sobers, Lance Gibbs, Gordon Greenidge, George Headley, Brian Lara, Clive Lloyd, Malcolm Marshall, Sir Andy Roberts, Alvin Kallicharran, Rohan Kanhai, Sir Frank Worrell, Sir Clyde Walcott, Sir Everton Weekes, Sir Curtly Ambrose, Michael Holding, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Courtney Walsh, Joel Garner and Sir Viv Richards have all been inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.[4]

The West Indies have won the ICC Cricket World Cup twice, in 1975 and 1979, the ICC World Twenty20 twice, in 2012 and 2016, the ICC Champions Trophy once, in 2004, the ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup once, in 2016, and were runners-up in the Cricket World Cup in 1983 and Under 19 Cricket World Cup in 2004. The West Indies were the first team to win back-to-back World Cups (1975 and 1979), and appeared in three consecutive World Cup finals (1975, 1979 and 1983).

As of 3 March 2016, the West Indian cricket team is ranked eighth in Tests, ninth in ODIs and second in T20Is by the ICC.[1]

West Indies has hosted the 2007 Cricket World Cup and the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.

Member states and dependencies

Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board and Team

The current side represents:

Legends
L = Participant of the Leeward Islands team and member of the Leeward Islands Cricket Association
W = Participant of the Windward Islands team and member of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control
Notes
  1. ↑ Saint Kitts and Nevis are separately represented in the Leeward Islands Cricket Association.
  2. ↑ British Overseas Territories.
  3. ↑ Constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands and part of the Dutch Caribbean.
  4. ↑ Unincorporated organized territory of the United States.

Affiliates in West Indies Cricket Board

The West Indies Cricket Board, the governing body of the team, consists of the six cricket associations of Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Leeward Islands and Windward Islands. The Leeward Islands Cricket Association consists of associations of one sovereign state (Antigua and Barbuda), the two entities of Saint Kitts and Nevis, three British Overseas Territories (Anguilla, Montserrat and British Virgin Islands) and two other dependencies (US Virgin Islands and Sint Maarten). The Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control consists of associations of four sovereign states (Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines).

Currently, Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands, other historical parts of the former West Indies Federation and now British Overseas Territories, have their own teams.

National teams also exist for the various islands, which, as they are all separate countries, very much keep their local identities and support their local favourites. These national teams take part in the West Indian first-class competition, the Carib Beer Cup (earlier known as the Busta Cup, Shell Shield and various other names).[5] It is also common for other international teams to play the island teams for warm-up games before they take on the combined West Indies team.

The official population number for those countries and dependencies is estimated to around 6 million, which is larger than Scotland and the Republic of Ireland.

The member association of WICB are:

Potential future members

History

Learie Constantine, who played Test cricket in the 1920s and 1930s, was one of the first great West Indian players.
Darren Sammy. The West Indies have won five major tournament titles: the World Cup twice, the Champions Trophy once, and the World Twenty20 twice. Both World T20s were won with Sammy as captain, making him the only West Indian captain besides Clive Lloyd with multiple ICC tournament victories.

The history of the West Indies cricket team began in the 1890s, when the first representative sides were selected to play visiting English sides. The WICB joined the sport's international ruling body, the Imperial Cricket Conference, in 1926,[6] and played their first official international match, granted Test status, in 1928,[7] thus becoming the fourth Test nation. In their early days in the 1930s, the side represented the British colonies that would later form the West Indies Federation plus British Guiana.

The last series the West Indies played before the outbreak of the Second World War was against England in 1939. There followed a hiatus that lasted until January 1948 when the MCC toured the West Indies.[8] Of the West Indies players in that first match after the war only Gerry Gomez, George Headley, Jeffrey Stollmeyer, and Foffie Williams had previously played Test cricket.[9] In 1948, leg spinner Wilfred Ferguson became the first West Indian bowler to take ten wickets in a Test, finishing with 11/229 in a match against England;[10] later that same year Hines Johnson became the first West Indies fast bowler to achieve the feat, managing 10/96 against the same opponents.[11] Although blessed with some great players in their early days as a Test nation, and beating England for the first time at Lord's on 29 June 1950, their successes remained sporadic until the 1960s when the side changed from a white-dominated to a black-dominated side. By the 1970s, the West Indies had a side recognised as unofficial world champions, a reputation they retained throughout the 1980s.[12] During these glory years, the West Indies were noted for their four-man fast bowling attack, backed up by some of the best batsmen in the world. In 1976, fast bowler Michael Holding took 14/149 in a Test against England, setting a record which still stands for best bowling figures in a Test by a West Indies bowler.[13][14]

The 1980s saw the team set a then-record streak of 11 consecutive Test victories in 1984 and inflict two 5–0 "blackwashes" against the old enemy of England. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, however, West Indian cricket declined, largely owing to the failure of the West Indian Cricket Board to move the game from an amateur pastime to a professional sport, coupled with the general economic decline in West Indian countries, and the team is struggling to regain its past glory. Victory in the 2004 Champions Trophy and a runner-up showing in the 2006 Champions Trophy left some hopeful, but it was not until the inception of Twenty20 cricket that the West Indies began to regain a place among cricketing elite and among cricket fans, as they developed ranks of players capable of taking over games with their power hitting, including Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard, Marlon Samuels, Lendl Simmons, Andre Russell and Carlos Brathwaite. They beat Australia and then host Sri Lanka in the 2012 World Twenty20 to win their first ICC world championship since the 1979 World Cup and then bested England to win the 2016 World Twenty20, making them the first team to win the World Twenty20 twice. As an added bonus, the West Indies also became the first to win both the men's and women's World Twenty20 on the same day, as the women's team beat three-time defending champion Australia for their first ICC world title immediately beforehand.

Cricket after ICC World Cup 2015


West Indies would not play a One Day International after World Cup 2015 until after 30 September, which caused them to be eliminated from the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy. A scheduled Triangular series with Zimbabwe and Pakistan was cancelled after the Pakistan Cricket Board refused to risk their hard-earned spot in the same competition. West Indies' first game after World Cup was against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka whitewashed West Indies in both Test and ODI series as 2-0 and 3-0 respectively, which cause them to fall down the rankings. But in 2-match T20 series, West Indies were able to draw it by winning the last match of the tour. With this win, West Indies moved higher in T20I team rankings up to third place and entered the 2016 World T20 final against England in second place behind only India.

Issue with the Cricket Board


West Indies Cricket Team faces issues with their cricket board. After receiving the T20 championship, in the award receiving ceremony the team caption Darren Sammy expressed his disappointment with the board. He also said that cricket commentator Mark Nicholas thinks his team is a team of brainless players, and that the board didn't provide the essentials like uniforms and prints for the T20 tournament held in India. After reaching India, the team managers went out to make uniforms and prints in Kolkata city. He thanked the teammates, coaching staff and managers for staying united and winning the championship. He also expressed his feeling that the board may not select the same players again, and they won't play ODI again. The team got inspirational messages from their prime minister before finals, but not even a word from the board. His team members were cheering when he gave this heart touching speech. This interview of Darren Sammy was telecasted live in TVs.

Darren Sammy : "Firstly, I want to thank the almighty. We have a pastor in the team - Andre Fletcher, who kept praying. Really happy with this win and this is something that we will cherish for a long time. I was serious hitting from Brathwaite. It said before that we have 15 match winners in the side. Every game somebody took responsibility. To see him play like that in his debut World Cup was amazing. Hopefully, with the right structure and development, we'll get better in ODIs and Tests as well. (Nasser Hussain asks Sammy to compare this win with the 2012 victory. Sammy says, "Nass, do you really want me to tell you, okay." And the speech starts) We started our journey. We all know what we had. People were wondering whether we would play this tournament. We had a lot of issues and we felt disrespected by our board. Mark Nicholas described our team as a team of 'no brains.' All these things just before the tournament brought this team together. I want to really thank these 15 men with. The ability to put all those adversity aside and to come out and play this type of cricket in front of such passionate fans... it's just tremendous. I personally also want to thank the coaching staff. Coach Phil (Simmons). He's been through a lot. To come here and the way he's coached this team.. he's just brilliant. All the other coaching staff who have done their part. We had a new manager in this tournament in Rawl Lewis, who has never managed any team before. He came here. We had a camp in Dubai. We had no uniforms. No printing. He left Dubai, went to Kolkata.. that's where we started. The trouble he went through to get us in this uniform.. I got to give credit to the entire team here. It was us in our own little circle. We dedicate this win to all the fans in the Caribbean... (Sammy becomes a bit emotional). And lastly I want to find the heads Caricom. Throughout this tournament they have been supporting the team. We have got emails, we have got calls. Prime Minister Mitchell, I know what he's trying to do. I really want to thank him and he sent a very inspiring message to the team this morning... and we are yet to hear from our own cricket board and that is very disappointing. For today, I am going to celebrate with these 15 men and this coaching staff. I don't when I am going to be playing with these guys again, because we don't get selected for one-day cricket. We don't know when we are going to be playing T20s. So this win.. I want to thank you my team. I want to thank you coaching staff. Everybody in the West Indies are champion"

News from "The Guardian" April 3, 2016.

"West Indies captain, Darren Sammy, says his side are driven by a lack of respect from their detractors."


"The broadcaster Mark Nicholas dismissed them as being “short of brains” in a tournament preview, words which have fuelled them on their charge to the final."

“People paint us as money-grabbing cricketers because of our success in T20 cricket but still they don’t respect us in this format,” he said. “Everybody is entitled to their opinion. But whatever they say it doesn’t really matter.

“How could you describe people with ‘no brains’. Animals [have] got brains. We’re not an object. To me that particular comment really set it off for us. To describe our team, who were defending champions two years ago, as guys with no brains is really out of order.

“Gods don’t love the ugly. We’re very wonderfully, beautifully made and that’s why we play exciting cricket.”

Expect to see that last line on a T-shirt sometime soon, but Sammy is full of wonderful turns of phrase. Having pitched his team as David versus Goliath ahead of their semi-final against India, he was asked what role they took against England.

“We are always David. David is a winner,” he said. “Even now I still think people don’t give us a chance. Goliath is big and strong but David defeated him with one shot.

West Indies join the dots on path to the World Twenty20 final


“We will always see ourselves as David. We will play like David, be smart about it, believe in ourselves in the dressing room. If we do all these things we know we could do with that belief, we’re going to lift the cup.”

The West Indies’ “Champion” dance has gained cult status since they arrived at the competition, enthusiastically aired after every victory and even in defeat alongside Afghanistan.


They were also filmed performing their moves in the lobby of the team hotel following their victory over India, and Sammy is already anticipating the merriment that would follow victory on Sunday.

“Just thinking about lifting that cup tomorrow, I can almost foresee what’s going to happen after. But we have a game of cricket to play first,” he said.

“It’s going to be a match up of skill versus skill and mind power versus mind power, but I know we win the celebration part

Flag and anthem

West Indies Cricket Flag pre-199
Former flag of the West Indies cricket team used until 1999. This flag became public domain but the current version is copyrighted.

Most cricketing nations use their own national flags for cricketing purposes. However, as the West Indies represent a number of independent states and dependencies, there is no natural choice of flag. The WICB has, therefore, developed an insignia showing a palm tree and cricket stumps on a small sunny island (see the top of this article). The insignia, on a maroon background, makes up the West Indian flag. The background sometimes has a white stripe above a green stripe, which is separated by a maroon stripe, passing horizontally through the middle of the background.[15] Prior to 1999, the WICB(C) had used a similar insignia featuring a cabbage palm tree and an island, but there were no stumps and, instead of the sun, there was the constellation Orion. It was designed in 1923 by Sir Algernon Aspinall, then Secretary of the West India Committee.[16] Around the same time in the 1920s the suggested motto for the West Indies team was "Nec curat Orion leones", which comes from a quote by Horace, meaning that Orion, as symbolical of the West Indies XI, does not worry about the lions [of English cricket].[17]

For ICC tournaments, "Rally Round the West Indies" by David Rudder is used as the team's anthem.

Venues

Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad

The following eleven stadia have been used for at least one Test match.[18] The number of Tests played at each venue followed by the number of One Day Internationals and twenty20 internationals played at that venue is in brackets as of 11 July 2011:

Queen's Park Oval - Port of Spain, Trinidad (58/61/3)

The Queen's Park Oval has hosted more Test matches than any other ground in the Caribbean and first hosted a Test match in 1930. The ground is considered one of the most picturesque venues in the world of cricket, featuring the view Trinidad's Northern Range. It has a capacity of over 18,000.

Kensington Oval - Bridgetown, Barbados (48/30/13)

Kensington Oval hosted the region's first Test match in 1930 and is recognised as the 'Mecca' of West Indies cricket. It also played host to the first-ever Test triple century, Andy Sandham's 325. Its capacity was increased from 15,000 to 28,000 for the 2007 World Cup and down to its current capacity of 11,000 post - World Cup. It has hosted two ICC world finals - the 2007 Cricket World Cup Final, which Australia won over Sri Lanka, and the 2010 World Twenty20 Final, which England won against Australia.

Bourda - Georgetown, Guyana (30/11/0)

Bourda first hosted a Test match in 1930. It was the only Test ground in South America (until the use of Providence), and the only one below sea level and with its own moat (to prevent the pitch from frequent flooding). It has a capacity of around 22,000.

Sabina Park - Kingston, Jamaica (45/33/0)

Sabina Park first hosted a Test match in 1930. The Blue Mountains, which are famed for their coffee, form the backdrop. Sabina Park played host to Garry Sobers' then world-record 365 not out. In 1998, the Test against England was abandoned here on the opening day because the pitch was too dangerous. It has a capacity of 15,000.

Antigua Recreation Ground - St John's, Antigua (22/11/0)

Antigua Recreation Ground first hosted a Test in 1981. Three Test triple centuries have been scored on this ground: Chris Gayle's 317 in 2005, and Brian Lara's world record scores of 375 in 1994 and 400 not out in 2004. The historic stadium was removed from the roster of grounds hosting international matches in June 2006, to make way for the island's new cricket stadium, being constructed 3 miles outside the capital city expected to be completed in time for its hosting of matches for Cricket World Cup 2007. However, after the abandoned Test match between England and the West Indies in February 2009 at the new North Sound ground, Test cricket returned to the ARG.

Arnos Vale - Arnos Vale, Kingstown, St Vincent (2/23/0)

The Arnos Vale Ground a.k.a. The Playing Fields first hosted a Test in 1997.

National Cricket Stadium - St George's, Grenada (2/16/0)

Queen's Park, Grenada first hosted a Test in 2002.

Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium - Gros Islet, St Lucia (3/23/12)

Originally the Beauséjour Cricket Ground, first hosted a Test in 2003. It has a capacity of 12,000. This was the first stadium in the Caribbean to host a day-night cricket match. The match was between the West Indies and Zimbabwe. New Zealand was scheduled to play a test in 2014 to mark the return to Test cricket after a break of 8 years. Following the West Indies' victory in the 2016 World Twenty20, the St. Lucian government renamed the venue after captain Sammy, a native St. Lucian, with another St. Lucian - Johnson Charles - having a stand named in his honor after also being part of the 2012 and 2016 championship squads.

Warner Park Stadium - Basseterre, St Kitts (3/13/1)

The Warner Park Sporting Complex hosted its first One Day International on 23 May 2006 and its first Test match on 22 June 2006. The stadium has a permanent capacity of 8,000, with provisions for temporary stands to enable the hosting figure to past 10,000.

Providence Stadium - Georgetown, Guyana (2/11/6)

The Providence Stadium hosted its first One Day International on 28 March 2007 for the 2007 Cricket World Cup and its first Test match on 22 March 2008. The stadium has a permanent capacity of 15,000, and is to host Test cricket instead of Bourda.

Sir Vivian Richards Stadium - North Sound, Antigua (3/10/2)

The Sir Viv Richards Stadium hosted its first One Day International on 27 March 2007 for the 2007 Cricket World Cup and its first Test match on 30 May 2008. The stadium has a permanent capacity of 10,000, and is to host Test cricket instead of the Antigua Recreation Ground.

Windsor Park Stadium - Roseau, Dominica (2/4/0)

Windsor Park is another major cricket ground in the West Indies and home venue for the West Indian team. Construction first started on it in 2005, and it finally opened in October 2007, too late to serve as a venue for the 2007 Cricket World Cup. It hosts first-class cricket and hosted its first test on 6 July 2011 against India, however it held its first One Day International on 26 July 2009. It has a seating capacity of 12,000.

Three further stadia have been used for One Day Internationals,[19] but not Test matches. The number of One Day Internationals played at each venue is in brackets:

Clothing

Viv Richards, who has a Test batting average of 50.23 from 121 matches, captained the West Indies from 1985–86 to 1991, a period throughout which the West Indies were the best Test match side in the world.

When playing one-day cricket, the Windies wear a maroon-coloured shirt and trousers. The shirt also sports the logo of the West Indian Cricket Board and the name of their sponsors, at present, Digicel. The one-day cap is maroon with the WICB logo on the left of the front, with two yellow stripes.

When playing first-class cricket, in addition to their cricket flannels West Indian fielders sometimes wear a maroon sunhat with a wide brim. The WICB logo is on the front of the hat. Helmets are coloured similarly.

During World Series Cricket, coloured uniforms were adopted. The initial West Indies uniform was pink and was later changed to maroon to match their Test match caps. Grey was also added as a secondary colour. In some of their uniforms grey has been dominant over the traditional maroon.

West Indian women's cricket team

The West Indian women's cricket team has a much lower profile than the men's team. They played 11 Test matches between 1975–76 and 1979, winning once, losing three times, and drawing the other games. Since then, they have only played one further Test match, a draw game against Pakistan in 2003–04.[20] They also have an infrequent record in One Day Internationals. A team from Trinidad and Tobago and a team from Jamaica played in the first women's World Cup in 1973, with both sides faring poorly, finishing fifth and sixth respectively out of a field of seven.[21] The Windies united as a team to play their first ODI in 1979, but thereafter did not play until the 1993 World Cup. The side has never been one of the leading sides in the world, however, with their main success being achieving second place in the International Women's Cricket Council Trophy, a competition for the second tier of women's national cricket teams, in 2003. They finished in fifth place in the most recent World Cup, which was held in 2004–05. Their overall record in one-dayers is to have played 45, won 17, lost 27 with one no result.[22]

Because of the women's side's relatively low profile, there are few well-known names in the game. The most notable is probably Nadine George, a wicket-keeper/batsman, who became the first, and to date only, West Indian woman to score a Test century, in Karachi, Pakistan in 2003–04. George is a prominent supporter of sport in the West Indies, and in particular, in her native St Lucia, and in 2005 was made an MBE by HRH The Prince of Wales for services to sport.[23]

2016 saw the West Indian women win their first ICC world championship - the 2016 Women's World Twenty20, after beating three-time defending champion Australia by eight wickets at Eden Gardens with members of the men's team in the crowd to support.

Tournament history

A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within West Indies

ICC Cricket World Cup

World Cup record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
England 1975Champions1/855000
England 1979Champions1/854001
England 1983Runners-up2/886200
IndiaPakistan 1987Round 15/863300
AustraliaNew Zealand 1992Round 16/984400
IndiaPakistanSri Lanka 1996Semi finals3/1273400
England 1999Round 19/1253200
South Africa 2003Round 15/1463201
West Indies Cricket Board 2007Super 85/16105500
India Sri Lanka Bangladesh 2011Quarter-finals7/1473400
Australia New Zealand 2015Quarter-finals8/1473400
England 2019–––––
Total11/112 titles74423002

ICC World Twenty20

World Twenty20 record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
South Africa 2007 Group Stage 12/12 2 0 2 0 0
England 2009 Semi-finals 3/12 6 3 3 0 0
West Indies Cricket Board 2010 Super 8 5/12 5 3 2 0 0
Sri Lanka 2012 Champions 1/12 7 3 2 1 1
Bangladesh 2014 Semifinals 3/16 5 3 2 0 0
India 2016 Champions 1/16 6 5 1 – –
Australia 2020 Qualified – – – – – –
Total 5/5 2 titles 31 17 12 1' 1

ICC Champions Trophy

Known as the "ICC Knockout" in 1998 and 2000.

Champions Trophy record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
Bangladesh 1998Runners-up2/932100
Kenya 2000Round 111/1110100
Sri Lanka 2002Round 112/1221100
England 2004Champions1/1244000
India 2006Runners-up2/1053100
South Africa 2009Round 18/830300
England Wales 2013Round 17/831110
England Wales 2017Did not qualify------
Total7/81 title2010810

World Championship of Cricket

1985: Third place stand
1988: Quarter final
2016: Winners.

Honours

Cricket World Cup (2): 1975 , 1979

ICC World Twenty20 (2): 2012 , 2016

ICC Champions Trophy (1): 2004

Statistics and records

Brian Lara holds the world record for highest score in Test cricket (400 vs England in 2003–04).
Innings totals above 700

For: 790 for 3 declared against Pakistan in Kingston in 1957–58; 751 for 5 declared against England in St John's in 2003–04; 747 all out against South Africa in St John's in 2004–05; 749 for 9 declared against England in Bridgetown in 2008–2009
Against: 849 by England in Kingston in 1929–30; 758 for 8 declared by Australia in Kingston in 1954–55

Innings totals below 60

For: 47 against England in Kingston in 2003–04; 51 against Australia in Port of Spain in 1998–99; 53 against Pakistan in Faisalabad in 1986–87; 54 against England at Lord's in 2000
Against: 46 by England in Port of Spain in 1993–94; 51 by England in Kingston in 2008–09

Triple centuries scored for the Windies

400 not out by Brian Lara against England at St John's in 2003–04; 375 by Brian Lara against England at St John's in 1993–94; 365 not out by Garry Sobers against Pakistan at Kingston in 1957–58; 333 by Chris Gayle against Sri Lanka at Galle in 2010–11; 317 by Chris Gayle against South Africa at St John's in 2004–05; 302 by Lawrence Rowe against England at Bridgetown in 1973–74

Twelve or more wickets were taken for the Windies in a Test match

14 for the cost of 149 runs by Michael Holding against England at the Oval in 1976; 13 for 55 by Courtney Walsh against New Zealand in Wellington in 1994–95; 12 for 121 by Andy Roberts against India in Madras in 1974–75

Hat-Tricks

Wes Hall against Pakistan in 1959; Lance Gibbs against Australia in 1961; Courtney Walsh against Australia in 1988; and Jermaine Lawson against Australia in 2003

One day matches

Hat-trick

An ODI hat-trick performance was made by Jerome Taylor on 19 October 2006 at Mumbai in an ICC Champions Trophy league match against Australia.[24]

At the ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup, Kemar Roach became the sixth bowler to claim a World Cup hat-trick against the Netherlands.

Test captains

The following men have captained the West Indian cricket team in at least one Test match:

Courtney Walsh, who captained the West Indies between 1993–94 and 1997–98.
West Indian Test match captains
Number Name Period
1 Karl Nunes 1928-1929/30
2 Teddy Hoad 1929/30
3 Nelson Betancourt 1929/30
4 Maurice Fernandes 1929/30
5 Jackie Grant 1930/31-1934/35
6 Rolph Grant 1939
7 George Headley 1947/48
8 Gerry Gomez 1947/48
9 John Goddard 1947/48-1951/52, 1957
10 Jeffrey Stollmeyer 1951/52-1954/55
11 Denis Atkinson 1954/55-1955/56
12 Gerry Alexander 1957/58-1959/60
13 Frank Worrell 1960/61-1963
14 Garfield Sobers 1964/65-1971/72
15 Rohan Kanhai 1972/73-1973/74
16 Clive Lloyd 1974/75-1977/78, 1979/80-1984/85
17 Alvin Kallicharran 1977/78-1978/79
18 Deryck Murray 1979/80
19 Viv Richards 1980, 1983/84-1991
20 Gordon Greenidge 1987/88
21 Desmond Haynes 1989/90-1990/91
22 Richie Richardson 1991/92-1995
23 Courtney Walsh 1993/94-1997/98
24 Brian Lara 1996/97-1999/2000, 2002/03-2004, 2006–2007
25 Jimmy Adams 1999/2000-2000/01
26 Carl Hooper 2000/01-2002/03
27 Ridley Jacobs 2002/03
28 Shivnarine Chanderpaul 2004/05-2005/06
29 Ramnaresh Sarwan 2007
30 Daren Ganga 2007
31 Chris Gayle 2007–2010
32 Dwayne Bravo 2008
33 Floyd Reifer 2009 (due to contract dispute)
34 Darren Sammy 2010–2014
35 Denesh Ramdin 2014–2014
36 Jason Holder 2015–Present

Squad

This lists all the players who have played for West Indies in the past year and the forms in which they have played.[25] Correct as of 14 March 2016.

Name Age Batting Style Bowling Skill Domestic team Forms S/N
Test[26] & ODI Captain and All-Rounder
Jason Holder 24 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Medium-Fast Barbados Test, ODI, T20I 98
T20I Captain and all-rounder
Darren Sammy 32 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm-Medium-Fast Windward Islands ODI, T20I 88
Opening batsmen
Lendl Simmons 31 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Medium-Fast Trinidad and Tobago ODI, T20I 54
Kraigg Brathwaite 23 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Off-Break Barbados Test
Chris Gayle 36 Left-Handed Bat Right-Arm Off-Break Jamaica ODI, T20I 45
Evin Lewis 24 Left-Handed Bat Right-Arm-Medium Trinidad and Tobago T20I
Middle-order batsmen
Darren Bravo 27 Left-Handed Bat Left-Arm Medium-Fast Trinidad and Tobago Test, ODI, T20I 46
Rajendra Chandrika 26 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Off Break Guyana Test, ODI, T20I
Jermaine Blackwood 24 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Off Break Jamaica Test
Marlon Samuels 35 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Off-Break Jamaica Test, ODI, T20I 7
Leon Johnson 28 Left-Handed Bat Slow Left-Arm Orthodox Guyana Test, ODI 23
Wicket-keepers
Johnson Charles 27 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Medium-Fast Windward Islands ODI, T20I 25
Shai Hope 22 Left-Handed Bat N/A Barbados Test
Denesh Ramdin 31 Right-Handed Bat N/A Trinidad and Tobago Test, ODI, T20I 80
Andre Fletcher 28 Right-Handed Bat N/A Windward Islands ODI, T20I 72
All-rounders
Carlos Brathwaite 27 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Fast-Medium Barbados Test, ODI, T20I 26
Andre Russell 27 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Fast-Medium Jamaica ODI, T20I 12
Pace Bowlers
Miguel Cummins 25 Left-Handed Bat Right-Arm Fast Barbados ODI -
Shannon Gabriel 28 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Fast-Medium Trinidad and Tobago Test
Sheldon Cottrell 26 Right-Handed Bat Left-Arm Fast Jamaica ODI 19
Kemar Roach 27 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Fast Barbados Test, ODI 24
Jerome Taylor 31 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Fast Jamaica Test, ODI, T20I 75
Spin Bowlers
Jomel Warrican 23 Right-Handed Bat Slow Left-Arm Orthodox Barbados Test
Devendra Bishoo 30 Left-Handed Bat Right arm leg break Guyana Test, T20I 70
Sulieman Benn 34 Left-Handed Bat Slow Left-Arm Orthodox Barbados T20I, ODI, Test 62
Ashley Nurse 34 Right-Handed Bat Right arm off break Barbados T20I 5
Samuel Badree 35 Right-Handed Bat Right arm leg break Trinidad and Tobago T20I 77

Coaching staff

See also

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 "ICC rankings - ICC Test, ODI and Twenty20 rankings - ESPN Cricinfo". ESPNcricinfo.
  2. 1 2 "Records / Test matches / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Records / 2016 / Test matches / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "ICC Hall of Fame". ICC. Retrieved 23 September 2009.
  5. ↑ For the results of domestic competitions see ESPN Cricinfo or The Home of CricketArchive
  6. ↑ See CricketArchive, for example, for a reference to when Test status was acquired
  7. ↑ See, for example, 75 Years of West Indies Cricket 1928–2003 by Ray Goble and Keith AP Sandiford ISBN 1-870518-78-0, the WICB authorised reference book on cricket in the West Indies. For more information on the first Test played by the Windies, see West Indies Series: Test and ODI Tours. See also the scorecard of the First Test played by the West Indies.
  8. ↑ "Records / West Indies / Test matches / List of match results (by year)". espncricinfo. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  9. ↑ "Scorecard, 1st Test: West Indies v England at Bridgetown, Jan 21–26 1948". espncricinfo. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  10. ↑ "Records / West Indies / Test matches / Best bowling figures in a match". espncricinfo. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  11. ↑ "Jamaica: A century of sport". espncricinfo. 27 July 1999. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  12. ↑ Until June 2001 there was no official ranking of Test nations, with the unofficial epithet of "World champions" being decided by acclaim based on recent results. Although exactly when the West Indies became and ceased to be world champions is therefore disputed – that they were world champions for a prolonged period of time is not
  13. ↑ "West Indies in England, 1976". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  14. ↑ "Records / West Indies / Test matches / Best bowling figures in a match". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  15. ↑ Flags of the World page on the WICB flag
  16. ↑ Royal Colonial Institute (1923). "Badge of the West Indian Cricket Team now in England". United Empire (Pitman and Sons Ltd.) 14: 350.
  17. ↑ Aspinall, Sir Algernon (1929). The Handbook of the British West Indies, British Guiana and British Honduras. West India Committee. p. 90.
  18. ↑ See Cricinfo for a list of Test match grounds
  19. ↑ See CricketArchive for a list of stadia that have hosted home West Indian ODIs
  20. ↑ CricketArchive has details of the Tests played by the West Indian women's cricket team
  21. ↑ CricketArchive shows the 1973 women's World Cup table
  22. ↑ CricketArchive has detailed records of the West Indies women's ODI results
  23. ↑ See Wikipedia's own article on Nadine George, or Cricinfo's article on George receiving the MBE
  24. ↑ Cricinfo – Taylor hat-trick sinks Australia
  25. ↑ Sammy, Russell cut from WICB contracts list
  26. ↑ "Holder replaces Ramdin as captain for SL Tests". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2015-09-08.
  27. ↑ Rawl Lewis named Interim Team Operations Manager for ICC World T20

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