West Indies cricket team

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West Indies national cricket team
Flag of the West Indies cricket board
Test status
received
1928
First Test -
Match
versus England at Lord's Cricket Ground , London , June 1928England
First ODI against England at Leeds , September 1973England
First T20I against New Zealand in Auckland , February 2006New Zealand
captain Jason Holder ( test ), Kieron Pollard ( ODI , T20 )
Coach Phil Simmons
Official ICC test ranking 8 of 12
Official ICC ODI ranking 9 of 20
Official ICC T20I ranking 9 of 84
World Cup participation 12
First World Cup 1975
Best World Cup result Winner (1975, 1979)
Champions Trophy participation 8th
First Champions Trophy 1998
Best Champions Trophy result Winner (2004)
World Twenty20 participations 6th
First World Twenty20 2007
Best World Twenty20 result Winner (2012, 2016)
As of May 26, 2020

The West Indies Cricket Team , also known as The Windies or The West Indies for short , is one of the twelve national teams in the sport of cricket that play test cricket matches . It is one of the “national teams” that includes players from more than one state .

history

West Indies cricket team in Australia 1930-31

His first official test match against England took place at Lord's Cricket Ground in London from June 23 to 26, 1928. Between the mid-1970s and the early 1990s, the West Indies team was the world's dominant team in test and one-day cricket and also won the first two World Cups in 1975 and 1979; in 1983 they were only defeated in the final against outsiders India. In 2004 the team won the ICC Champions Trophy , but this was a "positive slip" in a downward spiral that began in the 1990s and continued until the tournament was won at the Twenty20 World Cup in 2012 .

The first major cricket tournament in the Caribbean was the 2007 Cricket World Cup , in which the West Indies performed disappointingly.

First-class teams

The area of ​​the West Indies comprises most of the English-speaking Caribbean . Within this area there are six first-class teams competing for the “national” championship, some of which are again associations of smaller states or islands.

Other territories, such as the Bahamas or Bermuda, are not members of the West Indies Cricket Board , but independent members of the International Cricket Council with little sporting importance. Only Bermuda had the status of a One-Day International Team from January 1, 2006 to April 8, 2009 .

anthem

Since the team has the status of a national team at international games and tournaments and thus an anthem is played before the games, after the collapse of the West Indian Federation it was initially open which this should be. First of all, the national anthem of the state to which the captain belonged was played. In recent years, versions of the song "Rally Round the West Indies ... Now and Forever" composed in 1988 by the Trinidadian singer David Rudder have been used.

Famous players

Brian Lara during a test match in Barbados

Many of the most famous players in cricket history are from the Caribbean, such as:

Captains

Test match captains

So far, a total of 34 players have captained West Indies in a test match.

No. Surname Period
1 Karl Nunes 1928-1930
2 Edward Hoad 1930
3 Nelson Betancourt 1930
4th Maurius Fernandes 1930
5 George Grant 1930-1935
6th Rolph Grant 1939
7th George Headley 1948
8th Gerald Gomez 1948
9 John Goddard 1948-1957
10 Jeffrey Stollmeyer 1952-1955
11 Denis Atkinson 1955-1956
12 Gerry Alexander 1958-1960
13 Frank Worrell 1960-1963
14th Garfield Sobers 1965-1972
15th Rohan Kanhai 1973-1974
16 Clive Lloyd 1974-1985
17th Alvin Kallicharran 1978-1979
18th Deryck Murray 1979
19th Viv Richards 1980-1991
20th Gordon Greenidge 1988
21st Desmond Haynes 1990
22nd Richard Richardson 1992-1995
23 Courtney Walsh 1994-1997
24 Brian Lara 1997-2006
25th James Adams 2000-2001
26th Carl Hooper 2001-2002
27 Ridley Jacobs 2002
28 Shivnarine Chanderpaul 2005-2006
29 Ramnaresh Sarwan 2007-2008
30th Daren Ganga 2007
31 Chris Gayle 2007-2010
32 Dwayne Bravo 2008
33 Floyd Mature 2009
34 Darren Sammy 2010-2014
35 Denesh Ramdin 2014-2015
36 Jason Holder 2015 – today
37 Kraigg Brathwaite 2017-2019

Stages

The West Indies team has so far used 12 stadiums on home soil for hosting friendly matches:

No. Stadion city First use
1 Kensington oval Bridgetown , Barbados January 11, 1930
2 Queen's Park Oval Port of Spain , Trinidad February 1, 1930
3 Bourda Georgetown , Guyana February 21, 1930
4th Sabina Park Kingston , Jamaica April 3, 1930
5 Antigua Recreation Ground Saint John's , Antigua March 27, 1981
6th Arnos Vale Stadium Kingstown , St. Vincent June 20, 1997
7th National Cricket Stadium St. George’s , Grenada June 28, 2002
8th Beausejour Stadium Gros Islet , St. Lucia June 20, 2003
9 Warner Park Basseterre , St. Kitts June 22, 2006
10 Providence Stadium Georgetown , Guyana March 22, 2008
11 Sir Vivian Richards Stadium North Sound , Antigua May 30, 2008
12 Windsor Park Roseau , Dominica July 6, 2011

Balance sheet

The team has the following results against the other full members of the ICC in Test, ODI and Twenty20 cricket ( as of August 1, 2020 ).

opponent Testing ODIs Twenty20s
Sp. S. U N N Sp. S. U N NO Sp. S. U N NO
Afghanistan Afghanistan 1 1 0 0 9 5 0 3 7th 4th 0 3 0
Australia Australia 116 32 0 58  1 140 60 3 74 11 6th 0 5 0
BangladeshBangladesh Bangladesh 16 10 0 4th  2 38 21st 0 15th  2 12 6th 0 5 1
England England 160 58 0 51  51 102 44 0 52 6th  18th 11 0 7th 0
India India 98 30th 0 22nd  48 133 63 2 64 4th  17th 6th 0 10 1
Irish Cricket Union Ireland 0 0 0 0 12 10 0 1 7th 3 2 0 2
New Zealand New Zealand 47 13 0 15th  19th 65 30th 0 28 7th  13 3 3 6th 1
Pakistan Pakistan 52 17th 0 20th  15th 134 71 3 60 14th 3 0 11 0
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 10 7th 0 3 48 36 1 10 3 2 0 1 0
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 20th 4th 0 7th 60 28 0 29 11 5 0 6th 0
South Africa South Africa 28 3 18th 7th 62 15th 1 44 10 4th 0 6th 0

International tournaments

World Cricket Championship

Champions Trophy

World Twenty20

Web links

Commons : West Indies cricket team  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Venkat Ananth: A 'cricket anthem' for unity ( English ) Hindustan Times. June 18, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2019.
  2. The time period refers to the corresponding cricket season in which the first or last game of the time as captain took place
  3. Records / West Indies / Test Matches / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.
  4. Records / West Indies / One-Day Internationals / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.
  5. Records / West Indies / Twenty20 Internationals / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.