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The history of the West Indian cricket team begins in the 1880s when the first combined West Indian team was formed and toured Canada and the United States. [1] [2] In the 1890s, the first representative sides were selected to play visiting English sides. Administered by the West Indies Cricket Board ("WICB"), [3] and known colloquially as The ...
The history of the West Indies cricket team began in the 1890s, when the first representative sides were selected to play visiting English sides. The WICB joined the sport's international ruling body, the Imperial Cricket Conference , in 1926, [ 17 ] and played their first official international match, granted Test status, in 1928, [ 18 ] thus ...
The West Indies cricket team, also known colloquially as The Windies or The West Indies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of the West Indies. The " Windies " is one of the twelve elite international teams that play at the Test match cricket -level. The West Indies women's cricket team made its Test debut in ...
Pre-1999 Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board and Team Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board and Team used until mid-2017. From the 1880s onwards there had been no central body to co-ordinate the Inter-Colonial Tournaments and matches, select composite West Indian XIs for tours and against touring sides and to organise the West Indian tours of England, Canada and the United States.
Sachin Tendulkar of India has scored the most half-centuries in Test cricket with 68. He is followed by the West Indies' Shivnarine Chanderpaul on 66, India's Rahul Dravid and Allan Border of Australia on 63 and in fifth with 62 fifties to his name, Australia's Ricky Ponting. [ 93] Rank.
The West Indies' most successful captains in Test cricket are Viv Richards (who has won 27 of his 50 Tests), Clive Lloyd (who won 36 of his 74 Tests), Frank Worrell (who won 9 of his 15 Tests) and Richie Richardson (who won 11 of his 24 Tests). In one-day internationals the West Indies' most successful captain is Clive Lloyd, who won 64 of his ...
This article describes the history of West Indies cricket from 1971 to 1980. The West Indies cricket team was in transition as the 1970s began and it suffered a humiliating series defeat on the 1975–76 tour of Australia. New captain Clive Lloyd was determined that such a defeat must never happen again and decided that the lessons of that tour ...
England 1993–94. 1st Test at Sabina Park, Kingston – West Indies won by 8 wickets. 2nd Test at Bourda, Georgetown – West Indies won by an innings and 44 runs. 3rd Test at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad – West Indies won by 147 runs. 4th Test at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados – England won by 208 runs.