Global InformationWest Indies cricket team information
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| Nickname(s) | Windies | ||||||||||||
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| Association | Cricket West Indies | ||||||||||||
| Personnel | |||||||||||||
| Test captain | Kraigg Brathwaite | ||||||||||||
| One Day captain | Shai Hope | ||||||||||||
| T20I captain | Rovman Powell | ||||||||||||
| Coach | Test: Andre Coley ODI & T20I: Daren Sammy[1] | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Test status acquired | 1928 | ||||||||||||
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| ICC status | Full Member (1926) | ||||||||||||
| ICC region | Americas | ||||||||||||
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| Tests | |||||||||||||
| First Test | v.  England at Lord's, London; 23–26 June 1928 | ||||||||||||
| Last Test | v.  Australia at The Gabba, Brisbane; 25–28 January 2024 | ||||||||||||
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| World Test Championship appearances | 2 (first in 2019–2021) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | 8th place (2019–2021, 2021–2023) | ||||||||||||
| One Day Internationals | |||||||||||||
| First ODI | v. England at Headingley, Leeds; 5 September 1973 | ||||||||||||
| Last ODI | v. Australia at Manuka Oval, Sydney; 6 February 2024 | ||||||||||||
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| World Cup appearances | 12 (first in 1975) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | Champions (1975, 1979) | ||||||||||||
| World Cup Qualifier appearances | 2 (first in 2018) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | Runners-up (2018) | ||||||||||||
| Twenty20 Internationals | |||||||||||||
| First T20I | v.  New Zealand at Eden Park, Auckland; 16 February 2006 | ||||||||||||
| Last T20I | v. Australia at Perth Stadium, Perth; 13 February 2024 | ||||||||||||
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| T20 World Cup appearances | 8 (first in 2007) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | Champions (2012, 2016) | ||||||||||||
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| As of 13 February 2024 | |||||||||||||
The West Indies men's 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 West Indies. The players on this composite team are selected from a chain of fifteen Caribbean nation-states and territories. As of 26 November 2022[update], the West Indies cricket team is ranked eighth in Tests, and tenth in ODIs and seventh in T20Is in the official ICC rankings.[11]
From the mid-late 1970s to the early 1990s, the West Indies team was the strongest in the world in both Test and One Day International cricket. A number of cricketers who were considered among the best in the 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 twice (1975 and 1979, when it was styled the Prudential Cup), the ICC T20 World Cup twice (2012 and 2016, when it was styled World Twenty20), the ICC Champions Trophy once (2004), the ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup once (2016), and have also finished as runners-up in the Cricket World Cup (1983), the Under 19 Cricket World Cup (2004), and the ICC Champions Trophy (2006). The West Indies appeared in three consecutive World Cup finals (1975, 1979 and 1983), and were the first team to win back-to-back World Cups (1975 and 1979), both of these records have been surpassed only by Australia, who appeared in 4 consecutive World Cup Finals (1996, 1999, 2003 and 2007) winning three consecutive World Cups (1999, 2003 and 2007).
The West Indies have hosted the 2007 Cricket World Cup and the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, and will co-host (with the United States of America) the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup.
- ^ "Daren Sammy appointed West Indies ODI & T20 coach; Andre Coley to take charge of Test team". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ^ "West Indies secure no 1 T20 rankings". cricket.com.au. 11 January 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ "ICC Rankings". International Cricket Council.
- ^ "Test matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "Test matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "ODI matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "ODI matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "T20I matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "T20I matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "West Indies Cricket team officially renamed to 'Windies'". Indian Express. 2 June 2017. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ "ICC rankings – ICC Test, ODI and Twenty20 rankings – ESPN Cricinfo". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 3 March 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
- ^ "ICC Hall of Fame". ICC. Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 23 September 2009.
- ^ "Live Cricket Scores & News International Cricket Council". www.icc-cricket.com. Archived from the original on 4 July 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2019.