West Indies cricket team

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 1928
First ODI	against England at Leeds , September 1973
First T20I	against New Zealand in Auckland , February 2006
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.

• Barbados
• Guyana
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands ( Antigua and Barbuda , St. Kitts and Nevis , Anguilla , Montserrat , British Virgin Islands , US Virgin Islands and St. Maarten )
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Windward Islands ( Dominica , Grenada , St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines )

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:

• 1920s: Learie Constantine
• 1930s: George Headley , Manny Martindale
• 1940s: Clyde Walcott , Everton Weekes , Frank Worrell (collectively known as "The Three Ws")
• 1950s: Basil Butcher, Lance Gibbs, Wes Hall, Conrad Hunte, Rohan Kanhai, Sonny Ramadhin, Garry Sobers , Alfred Valentine
• 1960s: Charlie Griffith, Vanburn Holder, Clive Lloyd , Seymour Nurse
• 1970s: Colin Croft, Joel Garner, Larry Gomes, Gordon Greenidge , Desmond Haynes, Michael Holding, Alvin Kallicharran, Malcolm Marshall , Viv Richards , Andy Roberts, Lawrence Rowe
• 1980s: Curtly Ambrose, Ian Bishop, Jeff Dujon, Carl Hooper, Richie Richardson, Courtney Walsh
• 1990s: Jimmy Adams, Shivnarine Chanderpaul , Ridley Jacobs, Brian Lara
• 2000s: Ramnaresh Sarwan, Chris Gayle

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

See also : List of test cricket stadiums

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	1	1	0	0	0	9	5	0	3	1	7th	4th	0	3	0
Australia	116	32	0	58	1	140	60	3	74	3	11	6th	0	5	0
Bangladesh	16	10	0	4th	2	38	21st	0	15th	2	12	6th	0	5	1
England	160	58	0	51	51	102	44	0	52	6th	18th	11	0	7th	0
India	98	30th	0	22nd	48	133	63	2	64	4th	17th	6th	0	10	1
Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	12	10	0	1	1	7th	3	2	0	2
New Zealand	47	13	0	15th	19th	65	30th	0	28	7th	13	3	3	6th	1
Pakistan	52	17th	0	20th	15th	134	71	3	60	0	14th	3	0	11	0
Zimbabwe	10	7th	0	0	3	48	36	1	10	1	3	2	0	1	0
Sri Lanka	20th	4th	0	9	7th	60	28	0	29	3	11	5	0	6th	0
South Africa	28	3	18th	0	7th	62	15th	1	44	2	10	4th	0	6th	0

International tournaments

World Cricket Championship

• 1975 winner
• 1979 winner
• 1983 2nd place
• 1987 preliminary round
• 1992 preliminary round
• 1996 semi-finals
• 1999 preliminary round
• 2003 preliminary round
• 2007 Super 8
• 2011 quarter finals
• 2015 quarter-finals
• 2019 preliminary round ( qualification )

Champions Trophy

• 1998 2nd place
• 2000 preliminary round
• 2002 preliminary round
• 2004 winner
• 2006 2nd place
• 2009 preliminary round
• 2013 preliminary round

World Twenty20

• 2007 preliminary round
• 2009 semi-finals
• 2010 Super 8
• 2012 winner
• 2014 semi-finals
• 2016 winner
• 2020 qualified

Web links

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

• West Indies Players Association
• West Indies cricket board

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.