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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 ...
West Indies played its first ever ODI in 1973. Chris Gayle holds the record for most matches, most runs, most centuries, highest individual score, most sixes and fours, most ducks, most catches and highest partnership for West Indies.
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).
In the first ODI, India batted first and made 308/7, [7] going on to win the match by just three runs, with the West Indies making 305/6 from their 50 overs. [8] India won the second ODI by two wickets, with just two balls left in the match, to win the series with a match to play. [ 9 ]
Conversely, the West Indies on their first tour of South Africa in the post-apartheid era had suffered their first 5–0 Test whitewash and lost the ODI series 6–1. [ 14 ] [ 19 ] Brian Lara led a player revolt against the WICB over pay and conditions and the tour was delayed by a week.
In 1992–93, the West Indies defeated Australia by one run in Adelaide, where a loss would have cost them the series. In 1994–95, the West Indies salvaged a draw in India when, after losing the first Test and drawing the second, they secured a win in the third. In 1992, the West Indies once again failed to qualify for the World Cup semi-finals.
Samuels made his test and ODI debuts for West Indies in 2000 at the age of 19. He played 71 tests, 207 ODIs and 67 Twenty20 internationals and tallied more than 11,000 runs in international cricket.
West Indies eventually emerged as winners of this ODI series, taking it 4–1 after losing the first match in the final over. India had not won a Test series in the West Indies for 35 years, but India defeated the West Indies 1–0 in the Test series. Rahul Dravid, the Indian squad captain, was awarded the Man of the Series award for his ...