West Indies cricket team

West Indies

Nickname(s)	Windies
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 (96 years ago) (1928)
International Cricket Council
ICC status	Full Member (1926)
ICC region	Americas
ICC Rankings Current[3] Best-ever Test 7th 1st (1 January 1964) ODI 10th 1st (1 June 1981) T20I 7th 1st (10 January 2016)[2]
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
Tests Played Won/Lost Total[4] 575 183/210 (181 draws, 1 tie) This year[5] 2 1/1 (0 draws)
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
ODIs Played Won/Lost Total[6] 873 420/412 (11 ties, 30 no results) This year[7] 3 0/3 (0 ties, 0 no results)
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
T20Is Played Won/Lost Total[8] 192 80/99 (3 ties, 10 no results) This year[9] 3 1/2 (0 ties, 0 no results)
T20 World Cup appearances	8 (first in 2007)
Best result	Champions (2012, 2016)
Test kit ODI kit T20I kit
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.