The West Indies cricket team, also known as the Windies cricket team, is a multi-national cricket team representing the West Indies Cricket Board, a confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries. From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the West Indies team was one of the strongest in the world in both Test and ODI cricket. A number of cricketers considered among the best in the world have hailed from the West Indies.
Current squad
The West Indies Cricket ODI, Test, T20 Team List given below:-
T20 Captain: Darren Sammy
Coach : Phil Simmons
Name | Batting Style | Bowling Skill | Forms |
Jason Holder | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Medium-Fast | Test, ODI, T20I |
Darren Sammy | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm-Medium-Fast | ODI, T20I |
Lendl Simmons | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Medium-Fast | ODI, T20I |
Kraigg Brathwaite | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Off-Break | Test |
Chris Gayle | Left-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Off-Break | ODI, T20I |
Evin Lewis | Left-Handed Bat | Right-Arm-Medium | T20I |
Darren Bravo | Left-Handed Bat | Left-Arm Medium-Fast | Test, ODI, T20I |
Rajendra Chandrika | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Off Break | Test, ODI, T20I |
Jermaine Blackwood | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Off Break | Test |
Marlon Samuels | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Off-Break | Test, ODI, T20I |
Leon Johnson | Left-Handed Bat | Slow Left-Arm Orthodox | Test, ODI |
Johnson Charles | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Medium-Fast | ODI, T20I |
Shai Hope | Left-Handed Bat | N/A | Test |
Denesh Ramdin | Right-Handed Bat | N/A | Test, ODI, T20I |
Andre Fletcher | Right-Handed Bat | N/A | ODI, T20I |
Carlos Brathwaite | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Fast-Medium | Test, ODI, T20I |
Andre Russell | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Fast-Medium | ODI, T20I |
Miguel Cummins | Left-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Fast | ODI |
Shannon Gabriel | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Fast-Medium | Test |
Sheldon Cottrell | Right-Handed Bat | Left-Arm Fast | ODI |
Kemar Roach | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Fast | Test, ODI |
Jerome Taylor | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Fast | Test, ODI, T20I |
Jomel Warrican | Right-Handed Bat | Slow Left-Arm Orthodox | Test |
Devendra Bishoo | Left-Handed Bat | Right arm leg break | Test, T20I |
Sulieman Benn | Left-Handed Bat | Slow Left-Arm Orthodox | T20I, ODI, Test |
Ashley Nurse | Right-Handed Bat | Right arm off break | T20I |
Samuel Badree | Right-Handed Bat | Right arm leg break | T20I |
West Indies | |
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) Carlos Brathwaite(T20I) |
Coach | Phil Simmons |
Current ICC Test,ODI and T20I ranking | 8th (Test) 9th (ODI) 2nd (T20I) [1] |
All-time best ICCTest, ODI and T20Iranking | 1st (Test) 1st (ODI) 1st (T20I) [2] |
Test matches – This year | 513 1 |
Last Test match | Vs India August 2016 |
Wins/losses – This year | 164/177 (171 draws, 1 tie) 0/1 (2 draws) |
As of September 2016 | |
Had there been no West Indies, cricket would not have reached the heights it has today. There has perhaps not been a single other team whose inhabitants have taken cricket up as naturally. To draw an analogy from football, West Indies can be called the Brazil of cricket.
As things stand today, West Indies is formed of 15 countries (including Guyana, the only Test-playing South American nation). The countries participate in other sports as individual teams; it is only cricket that binds them together, even in the current era when cricket has been losing interest in that part of the world.Though George Headley, the three Ws [Frank Worrell, Clyde Walcott and Everton Weekes], and Garry Sobers had enriched the sport significantly in their heydays, their golden era came in the 1970s and 1980s. There was a period close to two decades when the Windies juggernaut crushed everything in its path. They suffered just one series defeat - a bitter one against New Zealand, thanks largely to some blatantly biased umpiring.
With the arrival of Viv Richards and a seemingly infinite battery of menacing fast bowlers, the West Indian overcame one opposition after another in their heydays under the capable leadership of Clive Lloyd.
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). 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.
History
History
The first Caribbean club, St Anne's, was formed in Barbados in 1806 and soon became part of the European culture on the island through the military. But it was only in 1865 - 32 years after the abolition of slavery - that the first inter-colonial match occurred, between Barbados and Demerara, now part of Guyana. Trinidad soon joined those sides in a triangular competition, but it would only be in the latter half of the 20th Century, with the increasing availability of air travel, that such teams as Jamaica could play other islands regularly. West Indies took time to establish itself as an international side, but finally beat England in 1930, in Trinidad.
The history of the West Indies cricket team began in the 1890s, when the first representative sides were selected to play visitingEnglish sides. The WICB joined the sport's international ruling body, the Imperial Cricket Conference, in 1926, and played their first official international match, granted Test status, in 1928, thus becoming the fourth Test nation. In their early days in the 1930s, the side represented the British colonies that would later form theWest Indies Federation plus British Guiana. 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, Courtney Walsh, Joel Garner and Sir Viv Richards have all been inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.
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).
The 1994-95 defeat against Australia had certainly tilted the balance of the sport in favour of the Australians, but legends like Curtly Ambrose and Brian Lara had kept the torch alight as West Indies cricket even as their fortunes steadily went downhill.
There has, however, been a recent glimmer of hope when Darren Sammy s men had lifted the ICC World Twenty20 in 2012. Their ascent in the shortest version of the sport has been promising, and only can hope it extends to the longer versions as well.
There has, however, been a recent glimmer of hope when Darren Sammy s men had lifted the ICC World Twenty20 in 2012. Their ascent in the shortest version of the sport has been promising, and only can hope it extends to the longer versions as well.
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,and played their first official international match, granted Teststatus, in 1928,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.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.In 1948, leg spinnerWilfred Ferguson became the first West Indian bowler to take ten wickets in a Test, finishing with 11/229 in a match against England;later that same year Hines Johnson became the first West Indies fast bowler to achieve the feat, managing 10/96 against the same opponents.The West Indies defeated England for the first time at Lord's on 29 June 1950 and, on 16 August 1950, completed a 3-1 series win when they won at The Oval. Although blessed with some great players in their early days as a Test team, their successes remained sporadic until the 1960s when the side changed from a white-dominated to a black-dominated side under the successive captaincies of Frank Worrell andGary Sobers. By the late 1970s, the West Indies led by Clive Lloyd had a side recognised as unofficial world champions, a reputation they retained throughout the 1980s.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
The last series the West Indies played before the outbreak of theSecond World War was against England in 1939. There followed a hiatus that lasted until January 1948 when the MCC toured the West Indies. 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. 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; later that same year Hines Johnson became the first West Indies fast bowler to achieve the feat, managing 10/96 against the same opponents.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. 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.
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.
In the mid 1970s and 1980s the Windies blew everyone away with an exciting brand of cricket played by the likes of Viv Richards and Clive Lloyd. Despite some 21st century inspiration from record breaking batsman Brian Lara, the Caribbean side is not the fearsome force it once was.
West Indies is also a former champion team of ICC T20 world cup. West Indies won the championship of T20 world cup in 2012. In the final match, West Indies defeated the host team Sri Lanka by 36 runs. Apart from that, West Indies has also reached the semi final of 2009 and 2014 T20 world cups. Currently, West Indies is at the 4 spot in ICC T20 cricket ratings. In the previous world cup encounters, West Indies played 25 matches out of which the team won 12 matches, lost 11 matches while 1 match each remained tie and draw.
International Competition
International Competition
West Indies enjoys the distinction of winning the first ICC Cricket World Cup, in 1975, and then retaining the trophy in the next edition, in 1979, both trophies being held in England. It is one of only three teams to have won the World Cup more than once, with Australia and India being the others. It won the ICC Champions Trophy in 2004 – the only time it has won the trophy – and it also won the ICC World Twenty20 in 2012, beating Sri Lanka by 36 runs.
Domestic Cricket
There are three competitions in West Indies domestic cricket, the one-day trophy - currently known as the President's Cup - the Regional Four-Day Competition, which features first-class matches, and a T20 tournament. The Regional Four-Day Competition - which was known as the Shell Shield when introduced in 1965, and has also been called the Carib Beer Cup - comprised the six regional West Indies teams of Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Leeward Islands and Windward Islands plus the Combined Campuses and Colleges in 2009-10. A new Twenty20 competition, Caribbean T20, took place in July 2010, featuring the above seven teams along with Canada.
All-time Great
Where to start with West Indies greats "The three Ws" - Richards, Ambrose, Walsh and Lara. One man stands above them all - Sir Garfield Sobers, who had an embarrassment of natural talent. He is in the top 10 greatest batsmen of all time, with a Test total of 8032 runs at an average of 57.78 - and he accumulated them in flowing fashion. Perhaps his most memorable innings was his 365 not out against Pakistan in 1958, a record that stood until 1994 when Brian Lara eclipsed him. Sobers also took more than 200 Test wickets and, to complete the set, he could also field anywhere.
