The West Indies cricket crew, nicknamed the Windies,[10] is a multi-countrywide men's cricket team representing the in particular English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean place and administered with the aid of Cricket West Indies. The players on this composite crew are selected from a series of fifteen Caribbean nation-states and territories. As of thirteen May 2021, the West Indies cricket group is ranked seventh in Tests and ninth in both ODIs and T20Is in the reliable ICC ratings.[11]
From the mid-overdue Seventies to the early Nineties, the West Indies group become the most powerful within the world in each Test and One Day International cricket. A range of cricketers who had been considered most of the satisfactory inside the international have hailed from the West Indies: Garfield Sobers, Lance Gibbs, George Headley, Brian Lara, Vivian Richards, Clive Lloyd, Malcolm Marshall, Alvin Kallicharran, Andy Roberts, Rohan Kanhai, Frank Worrell, Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes, Curtly Ambrose, Michael Holding, Courtney Walsh, Joel Garner, and Wes Hall have all been inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.[12][13]
The West Indies have received the ICC Cricket World Cup two times (1975 and 1979 whilst it was styled the Prudential Cup), the ICC T20 World Cup twice (2012 and 2016 while it was styled World Twenty20), the ICC Champions Trophy once (2004), the ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup as soon as (2016), and feature additionally completed 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 seemed in 3 consecutive World Cup finals (1975, 1979 and 1983), and have been the first crew to win lower back-to-lower back World Cups (1975 and 1979), both of these facts were handed handiest by using Australian Cricket Team who seem in 4 consecutive World Cup Finals (1996, 1999, 2003 and 2007) prevailing three consecutive World Cups (1999, 2003 and 2007).
The West Indies have hosted the 2007 Cricket World Cup and the 2010 ICC World Twenty20. In June 2019, during the 2019 Cricket World Cup, the West Indies performed their 800th ODI in shape.[14]
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