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This is a list of West Indian Test cricketers. A Test match is an international cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap.
Freddie Martin and Karl Nunes became the first Jamaicans to play international cricket when they appeared in the West Indies's inaugural Test match, against England in 1928. [1] Nunes captained the West Indies during this match, the first of seven Jamaicans to do so. [2] Chris Gayle has scored the most runs by a Jamaican in Tests, ODIs and ...
Of the nine other Trinidadians to have captained the West Indies, Brian Lara has led the side the most times in Tests with 47 appearances. [3] Lara has captained the West Indies 125 times in ODIs, which is a West Indies record. [4] Lara has scored the most runs by a Trinidadian, and most runs by a West Indian overall, in Tests and ODIs.
This is a list of West Indian Twenty20 International cricketers. A Twenty20 International is an international cricket match between two representative teams, each having T20 status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC). A Twenty20 International is played under the rules of Twenty20 cricket.
This is a list of West Indian One-day International cricketers. A One Day International (ODI) is an international cricket match between two representative teams, each having ODI status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
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 West Indies. The players on this composite team are selected from a chain of fifteen Caribbean nation-states and ...
Gayle is the only player to score more than 14,000 runs and hit more than 1000 sixes in T20 cricket [4] [5] He is also the leading run scorer for West Indies in both ODIs and T20Is and, after Brian Lara, was the second player to score more than 10,000 runs for West Indies in ODI Cricket. Gayle was the first West Indian batsman to score a double ...
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in the West Indies. It was originally formed in the early 1920s as the West Indies Cricket Board of Control (and is still sometimes referred by that name), but changed its name in 1996.