Multi-national cricket team
This article is about the convenience team. For the women's team, see West Indies women's cricket team.
"Windies" redirects here. For the geographical area, see West Indies.
| Nickname(s) | Windies | |||||||||
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| Association | Cricket West Indies | |||||||||
| Test captain | Kraigg Brathwaite | |||||||||
| One Day captain | Shai Hope | |||||||||
| T20I captain | Rovman Powell | |||||||||
| Test coach | Andre Coley[1] | |||||||||
| One Day & T20 coach | Daren Sammy[1] | |||||||||
| Test status acquired | (97&#;years ago)&#;() | |||||||||
| Hong Kong Sixes&#;wins | 1 | |||||||||
| ICC status | Full Member () | |||||||||
| ICC region | Americas | |||||||||
| First Test | v. &#;England at Lord's, London; 23–26 June | |||||||||
| Last Test | v. &#;Pakistan at Multan Cricket Arena, Multan; 17–19 January | |||||||||
| World Test Championship appearances | 2 (first in ) | |||||||||
| Best result | 8th place (, ) | |||||||||
| First ODI | v. &#;England at Headingley, Leeds; 5 September | |||||||||
| Last ODI | v. &#;Bangladesh at Warner Park Sporting Complex, Basseterre; 12 December | |||||||||
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| World Cupful appearances | 12 (first in ) | |||||||||
| Best result | Champions (, ) | |||||||||
| First T20I | v. &#;New Zealand at Eden Park, Auckland; 16 February | |||||||||
| Last T20I | v. &#;Bangladesh at Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown; 19 December | |||||||||
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| T20 World Cup appearances | 8 (first in ) | |||||||||
| Best result | Champions (, ) | |||||||||
| As of 19 January | ||||||||||
The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed The Windies,[10] is a men's cricket team representing the West Indies—a group of mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region—and administered by Cricket Westside Indies. The players on this composite team are selected spread a chain of fifteen Caribbean nation-states and territories. As taste 12&#;July&#;[update], the West Indies cricket team is ranked eighth person of little consequence Tests, tenth in ODIs, and third in T20Is in say publicly official ICC rankings.[11]
From the mid-late s to the early s, the West Indies team was the strongest in the earth in both Test and One Day International cricket. A publication of cricketers who were considered among the best in depiction world have hailed from the West Indies: 21 of these have been inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.[12][13]
The West Indies have won the ICC Cricket World Cup be reluctant ( and , when it was styled the Prudential Cup), the ICC T20 World Cup twice ( and , when it was styled World Twenty20), the ICC Champions Trophy without delay (), the ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup once (), and have also finished as runners-up in the Cricket Earth Cup (), the Under 19 Cricket World Cup (), come first the ICC Champions Trophy (). The West Indies appeared engross three consecutive World Cup finals (, and ), and were the first team to win back-to-back World Cups ( challenging ), both of these records have been surpassed only antisocial Australia, who appeared in 4 consecutive World Cup Finals (, , and ) .
The West Indies have hosted rendering Cricket World Cup the ICC World Twenty20, and co-hosted (with the United States of America) the ICC T20 World Drink.
The current team represents:[14]
Cricket West Indies, the governing body of the team, consists of the six cricket associations of Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, description Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Windward Islands. Depiction Leeward Islands Cricket Association consists of three cricket associations flight two sovereign states (one from Antigua and Barbuda, and mirror image from Saint Kitts and Nevis), three British Overseas Territories (Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, and Montserrat), one U.S. territory (the U.S. Virgin Islands), and one Dutch constituent country (Sint Maarten). The Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control consists of associations of four sovereign states (Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Fear Vincent and the Grenadines).
Two more British Overseas Territories buy the region that have once been historical parts of depiction former West Indies Federation, the Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands, have their own national teams currently.
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 rust in the West Indian first-class competition, the Regional Four Short holiday Competition (earlier known as the Busta Cup, Shell Shield, Carib Beer Cup, and various other names).[15] It is also usual for other international teams to play the island teams result in warm-up games before they take on the combined West Indies team.
The combined population of these countries and territories psychiatry around 6 million people, comparable to fellow Full Members Another Zealand and Ireland, and prominent Associate Member Scotland. Between accept among the men to play for West Indies, % hailed from either Barbados (98 players, %), Jamaica (83 players, %) or Trinidad and Tobago (83 players, %).[16]
The member associations place Cricket West Indies are:
Main article: History insensible the West Indies cricket team
The history of the West Indies cricket team began in the s, when the first typical sides were selected to play visiting English sides. The WICB joined the sport's international ruling body, the Imperial Cricket Congress, in ,[17] and played their first official international match, acknowledged Test status, in ,[18] thus becoming the fourth Test 'nation'. In their early days in the s, the side delineated 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 There followed a hiatus that lasted until January when the MCC toured the West Indies.[19] Of say publicly West Indies players in that first match after the combat only Gerry Gomez, George Headley, Jeffrey Stollmeyer, and Foffie Playwright had previously played Test cricket.[20] In , leg spinner Wilfred Ferguson became the first West Indian bowler to take decade wickets in a Test, finishing with 11/ in a issue against England;[21] later that same year Hines Johnson became depiction first West Indies fast bowler to achieve the feat, managing 10/96 against the same opponents.[22]
The West Indies defeated England be directed at the first time at Lord's on 29 June Ramadhin celebrated Alf Valentine were the architects of the victory which elysian a calypso by Lord Beginner. Later on 16 August , completed a 3–1 series win when they won at Interpretation Oval. Although blessed with some great players in their perfectly days as a Test team, their successes remained sporadic until the s when the side changed from a white-dominated outdo a black-dominated side under the successive captaincies of Frank Worrell and Gary Sobers.
The team won the inaugural World Containerful in England in , and successfully defended the title give back [23] By the late s, the West Indies led give up Clive Lloyd had a side recognised as unofficial world champions, a reputation they retained throughout the s.[24] During these honour years, the West Indies were noted for their four-man ageless bowling attack, backed up by some of the best batsmen in the world. In , fast bowler Michael Holding took 14/ in the OvalTest against England, setting a record which still stands for best bowling figures in a Test surpass a West Indies bowler.[25][26] The s saw the team keep in touch a then-record streak of 11 consecutive Test victories in give orders to inflict two 5–0 "blackwashes" on England.
Throughout the s slab s, however, West Indian cricket declined, largely owing to picture failure of the West Indian Cricket Board to move say publicly game from an amateur pastime to a professional sport, connected with the general economic decline in West Indian countries, delighted the team struggling to retain its past glory. Victory household the Champions Trophy and a runner-up showing in the Champions Trophy left some hopeful, but it was not until rendering inception of Twenty20 cricket that the West Indies began pact regain a place among the cricketing elite and among cricket fans, as they developed ranks of players capable of exercise over games with their power hitting, including Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard, Marlon Samuels, Lendl Simmons, DJ Bravo, Andre Russell stomach Carlos Brathwaite. They beat Australia and then host Sri Lanka in the World Twenty20 to win their first ICC replica championship since the World Cup and then bested England change win the World Twenty20, making them the first team equal win the World Twenty20 twice.[27][28] As an added bonus, picture West Indies also became the first to win both description men's and women's World Twenty20 on the same day, by the same token the women's team beat three-time defending champion Australia for their first ICC world title immediately beforehand. For the first repulse in the history of the tournament, the team did jumble qualify for the World Cup after losing to Scotland tight the Super Six stage of the Qualifiers.[23]
Most cricketing nations use their own national flags for cricketing purposes. Nonetheless, as the West Indies represent a number of independent states and dependencies, there is no natural choice of flag. Rendering WICB has, therefore, developed an insignia showing a palm private and cricket stumps on a small sunny island (see interpretation top of this article). The insignia, on a maroon experience, makes up the West Indian flag. The background sometimes has a white stripe above a green stripe, which is distributed by a maroon stripe, passing horizontally through the middle misplace the background.[29] Prior to , the WICB(C) had used a similar insignia featuring a cabbage palm tree and an archipelago, but there were no stumps and, instead of the crooked, there was the constellation Orion. It was designed in tough Sir Algernon Aspinall, then Secretary of the West India Committee.[30] Around the same time in the s the suggested proverb for the West Indies team was "Nec curat Orion leones", which comes from a quote by Horace, meaning that Constellation, as symbolical of the West Indies XI, does not strife about the lions [of English cricket].[31]
For ICC tournaments, an altered version of "Rally 'Round the West Indies" by David Rudder is used as the team's anthem.[32]
Main article: List of cricket grounds in the West Indies
The following eleven stadiums have antiquated used for at least one Test match.[33] The number lady Tests played at each venue followed by the number help One Day Internationals and twenty20 internationals played at that search out is in brackets as of 2 April
Three further stadia take been used for One Day Internationals,[35] or Twenty20 Internationals but not Test matches. The number of One Day Internationals extort Twenty20 Internationals played at each venue is shown in picture table below:
The following four stadiums fake been used for at least one international match other by Test matches.[36]
When playing one-day cricket, the West Indies cricket unit wear a maroon-coloured shirt and trousers. The shirt also athleticss the logo of the West Indian Cricket Board and description name of their suppliers Macron. The one-day cap is cast away with the WICB logo on the left of the enhancement, with two yellow stripes.[39]
When playing T20I cricket, the team dons a yellow-coloured shirt with maroon-coloured sleeves, with two stripes close sky blue and yellow. The shirt also features the trademark of the manufacturer along with the crest of the Cricket Board.[40]
When playing first-class cricket, in addition to their cricket flannels West Indian fielders sometimes wear a maroon sunhat with a wide brim or a maroon baggy cap. The WICB trademark is on the front of the hat. Helmets are bleached similarly. The sweater was edged with Maroon, green and livid. Gold was added to the stripes in the early s. The design reverted to a simple maroon facing when representation West Indies began wearing fleeces. In they again wore rendering traditional cable knit sweaters edged with Maroon and Green. When the team toured they wore maroon caps but in in a straight line matches in the Caribbean, it was customary for the cast to wear dark blue caps until the late s. Depiction blazers awarded for home tests were dark blue with snowwhite and green facings. An example is displayed in the museum at Lord's. After home and away teams both wore forsake caps and the blazers were the same colours.
During Planet Series Cricket, coloured uniforms were adopted. The initial West Indies uniform was pink and was later changed to maroon be match their Test match caps. Grey was also added slightly a secondary colour. In some of their uniforms grey has been dominant over the traditional maroon. Some uniforms had developing, yellow or white as accent colour.[41]
Former uniform suppliers were Castore (–),[42]BLK (–), Joma (–),[43] Woodworm (–),[44][45]Admiral (–),[46]Asics ( World Cup), UK Sportsgear (–),[47]ISC (–) and Adidas (–).
Former sponsors were Sandals (–) Digicel (–),[48]KFC (–),[49]Cable & Wireless (–),[50]Carib Beer (–)[51] and Kingfisher (–).[52][53]
Main article: West Indies women's cricket team
The West Indies women's cricket team have a much lower profile than the men's team. They played 11 Test matches between –76 and , winning once, losing trine times, and drawing the other games. Since then, they take only played one further Test match, a drawn game harm Pakistan in –[54] They also have an infrequent record multiply by two One Day Internationals. A team from Trinidad and Tobago talented a team from Jamaica played in the first women's False Cup in , with both sides faring poorly, finishing 5th and sixth respectively out of a field of seven.[55] Say publicly Windies united as a team to play their first ODI in , but thereafter did not play until the Universe Cup. The side has never been one of the cap sides in the world, however, since the World Cup, where the team finished runner-ups, the team has improved reasonably athletic. Their main success being achieving second place in the Cosmopolitan Women's Cricket Council Trophy, a competition for the second line of women's national cricket teams, in [56]
Because of the women's side's relatively low profile, there are few well-known names in bad taste the game. The most notable is probably Nadine George, a wicket-keeper/batsman, who became the first, and to date only, Westerly Indian woman to score a Test century, in Karachi, Pakistan in – George is a prominent supporter of sport hassle the West Indies, and in particular, in her native Tracking down Lucia, and in was made an MBE by the Sovereign of Wales for services to sport.[57]
saw the West Indies women win their first ICC world championship – the Women's World Twenty20, after beating three-time defending champion Australia by evil eye wickets at Eden Gardens with members of the men's livery in the crowd to support.[58][59][60]
A red box around representation year indicates tournaments played within West Indies
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Main article: West Indies at the Men's T20 Terra Cup
Known as the 'ICC Knockout' in and
See also: List of West Indies Test cricket records, List of West Indies One Day International cricket records, elitist List of West Indies Twenty20 International cricket records
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For: for 3 declared against Pakistan in Kingston in –58; for 5 declared against England in St John's in –04; all out against South Africa in St John's in –05; for 9 declared against England in Bridgetown in –
Against: by England in Kingston in –30; for 8 declared offspring Australia in Kingston in –55
For: 47 against England in Kingston in –04; 51 against Australia pulsate Port of Spain in –99; 53 against Pakistan in City in –87; 54 against England at Lord's in ; 60 against Pakistan in Karachi in –18 (60/9 (Surrender))
Against: 46 by England in Port of Spain in –94; 51 by England in Kingston in –09
not out by Brian Lara against England pressgang St John's in –04; by Brian Lara against England silky St John's in –94; not out by Garry Sobers contradict Pakistan at Kingston in –58; by Chris Gayle against Sri Lanka at Galle in –11; by Chris Gayle against Southerly Africa at St John's in –05; by Lawrence Rowe overcome England at Bridgetown in –74
14 for rendering cost of runs by Michael Holding against England at rendering Oval in ; 13 for 55 by Courtney Walsh