West Indies cricket team
The West Indian cricket team, also known as the West Indies or the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team. They are a sporting group of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.
West Indies | |
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Test status granted | 1928 |
First Test match | v England at Lord's, London, 23–26 June 1928 |
Captain | Darren Sammy |
Coach | Ottis Gibson |
Official ICC Test, ODI and T20I ranking | 7th (Test) 8th (ODI) 8th (T20) [1] |
Test matches – This year | 476 8 |
Last Test match | v Australia at Windsor Park, Roseau, 23-27 April 2012 |
Wins/losses – This year | 154/157 2/3 |
As of 12 November 2011 |
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 among the best in the world have played for the West Indies. Sir Garfield Sobers, Lance Gibbs, Gordon Greenidge, George Headley, Clive Lloyd, Malcolm Marshall, Andy Roberts, Alvin Kallicharran, Rohan Kanhai, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, Curtly Ambrose, Michael Holding, Joel Garner and Sir Viv Richards are in the ICC Hall of Fame.[1] World-record holder Brian Lara was a West Indies Test player.[2][3]
The West Indies won the ICC Cricket World Cup twice, in 1975 and 1979. They won the ICC Champions Trophy in 2004. They were runners up in the Under 19 Cricket World Cup in 2004. They were semi finalists in the ICC World Twenty20 in 2009. They were the first cricket team to win the World Cup twice. West Indies are also the first team to win back to back World Cups. West Indies is the first team to appear in three consecutive World Cup finals (1975, 1979 and 1983).
West Indies Cricket Team Media
Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad
Viv Richards, who has a Test batting average of 50.23 from 121 matches, captained the West Indies from 1985–86 to 1991, a period throughout which the West Indies were the best Test match side in the world.
Brian Lara holds the world record for highest score in Test cricket (400 v. England in 2003–04)
Courtney Walsh, who captained the West Indies between 1993–94 and 1997–98.
References
- ↑ "ICC Hall of Fame". ICC. Archived from the original on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 23 September 2009.
- ↑ "Player Profile: Brian Lara". CricInfo. Retrieved 23 September 2009.
- ↑ "Player Profile: Sir Viv Richards". CricInfo. Retrieved 23 September 2009.