West Indian national cricket captains

This is a list of all men, boys and women who have captained the West Indian cricket team at official international level in at least one match. The West Indies became a full member of the Imperial Cricket Conference (now the International Cricket Council) on 31 May 1926 at the same time as India and New Zealand were made up to full membership and played its first Test match in 1928 against England at Lord's. Their first game against other opposition came in 1930/31 when they played Australia.

The West Indian team's greatest successes in One Day Internationals came in 1975 and 1979, when they won the Cricket World Cup under the captaincy of Clive Lloyd, and in 2004 when they won the ICC Champions Trophy under the captaincy of Brian Lara. 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 84 matches. Stephanie Power led the West Indies in to its best result in Women's ODI cricket when the team finished second in the 2003 International Women's Cricket Council Trophy. She also lead the team to a fifth place finish (their highest) in the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup. Power is also the most successful women’s captain in one-day internationals, winning 13 of 25 matches. The only women’s captain to who has led her side to a victory in a women's Test match is Louise Brown in the 1976/77 Test series against India. In the mid-1980s there were two rebel West Indian tours to South Africa, which was at that time banned from official competition because of the apartheid régime then in force there. None of the matches from the rebel tours were recognised as official Test matches and all players who toured South Africa at the time were banned from official international cricket matches for life. The captains of those West Indian sides are also listed below.

Prior to becoming a member of the ICC, the first combined West Indian team was formed in 1884 [ [http://www.canadacricket.com/corantoarchives/news-archive-4-2007.html Canada Cricket online - scroll to "West Indies 1886 tour to Canada"] ] and toured Canada and the United States in 1886 under the captaincies of Charles Guy Austin Wyatt of Demerara [http://books.google.com/books?id=2mRjVQ9C9YwC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=fyfe+jamaica+cricket&source=web&ots=gYWMZJEP8E&sig=AcfYED0O1grkmVUFPBM9EDNDecA The Development of West Indies Cricket Google Book results pages 22 and 23] ] and Laurence Fyfe of Jamaica [ [http://www.canadacricket.com/corantoarchives/news-archive-4-2007.html Canada Cricket online - scroll to "The first West Indies cricket tour"] ] (also vice captain under Wyatt). Combined West Indian teams have played more regular first-class cricket under the name “West Indies” since 1897 usually against amateur sides touring from England, such as Lord Brackley’s XI or RA Bennett’s XI, but from 1912 onwards the MCC also played on tour against the West Indies. The West Indies also toured England in 1900, 1906 and 1923 with the opposition usually being various English first-class and minor county sides. Other opposition during these tours included amateur sides, the MCC, an England XI (once) and Scotland and Ireland (once each). Some of the matches played on the various West Indian tours of England were deemed not to be first-class matches. During this time (1897 to 1926) the various West Indies captains were Aucher Warner, Stanley Sproston (non first-class matches only), Harold Austin, Clement King, Alfred Harrigan, Edwin Moulder, William Sherlock, Percy Tarilton, Malcolm Austin and Karl Nunes

Men's cricket

Test match captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the West Indian cricket team for at least one Test match. Development of the Test captaincy of West Indies falls into three eras -
*The period of white captaincy
*Rise to become the dominant Test nation
*Slide from Test domination.
The table of results is complete to the third and final Test against Australia in the 2008 Australia tour of the West Indies. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player deputised for the appointed captain or were appointed for a minor proportion in a series.

Notes:
*¹ New Zealand won the bowl-out in this match 3-0.
*² Also captained two warm-up matches against Kenya and New Zealand which were both won by West Indies.

Other men's captains

In addition to the above official Tests and ODIs, there have been West Indian captains of other leading sides. The Rest of the World teams that played in England and Australia in 1970 and 1971/2 respectively were captained by a West Indian. World Series Cricket featured a West Indian side, and finally, there were two rebel West Indian tours to apartheid South Africa.

Rest of the World, 1970 and 1971/2

When the South African tour to England due to take place in 1970 was cancelled, five matches were arranged against a Rest of the World team, all of which were recognised as Tests at the time, although they were later stripped of Test status. A similar situation also arose with the proposed South African tour of Australia that was due to take place in 1971/2, when the Rest of the World team also played two one-day matches. (There were to be three games, but one was abandoned without a ball being bowled.) These matches do not have official ODI status. The Rest of the World team was captained by a West Indian, Garfield Sobers.

Youth cricket

Test match captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the West Indian Under-19 cricket team for at least one under-19 Test match. The table of results is complete to the third Test against England in 2001.

Women's One-Day International captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the West Indian women's cricket team for at least one women's one-day international. The table of results is complete to the third ODI against South Africa in 2004/5.

ee also

*List of West Indian Test cricketers
*List of West Indian ODI cricketers
*Development of the Test captaincy of West Indies

References

* [http://www.cricketarchive.com/ Cricket Archive]
*"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack"