List of West Indies cricket captains

This is a list of all men, boys and women who have captained the West Indies 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. It 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.

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 Indies sides are listed below.

Prior to becoming a member of the ICC, the first combined West Indies team was formed in 1884 ^[1] and toured Canada and the United States in 1886 under the captaincies of Charles Guy Austin Wyatt of Demerara ^[2] and Laurence Fyfe of Jamaica ^[3] (also vice captain under Wyatt). ^[2] In a return tour by the United States in 1888, the combined West Indian team was captained by Edward Wright. ^{[4] [5]} 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 Indies 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 up to the second and final Test match for the West Indies in the 2024-25 West Indian tour of Pakistan. 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.

West Indian Test match captains

Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
1	Karl Nunes	1928	England	England	3	0	3	0
		1929/30†	England	West Indies	1	0	0	1
		Total			4	0	3	1
2	Teddy Hoad	1929/30†	England	West Indies	1	0	0	1
3	Nelson Betancourt	1929/30†	England	West Indies	1	0	1	0
4	Maurice Fernandes	1929/30†	England	West Indies	1	1	0	0
5	Jackie Grant 1	1930/1	Australia	Australia	5	1	4	0
		1933	England	England	3	0	2	1
		1934/5	England	West Indies	4	2	1	1
		Total			12	3	7	2
6	Rolph Grant 1	1939	England	England	3	0	1	2
7	George Headley	1947/8†	England	West Indies	1	0	0	1
8	Gerry Gomez	1947/8†	England	West Indies	1	0	0	1
9	John Goddard	1947/8	England	West Indies	2	2	0	0
		1948/9	India	India	5	1	0	4
		1950	England	England	4	3	1	0
		1951/2	Australia	Australia	4	1	3	0
		1951/2	New Zealand	New Zealand	2	1	0	1
		1957	England	England	5	0	3	2
		Total			22	8	7	7
10	Jeffrey Stollmeyer	1951/2†	Australia	Australia	1	0	1	0
		1952/3	India	West Indies	5	1	0	4
		1953/4	England	West Indies	5	2	2	1
		1954/5†	Australia	West Indies	2	0	1	1
		Total			13	3	4	6
11	Denis Atkinson	1954/5	Australia	West Indies	3	0	2	1
		1955/6	New Zealand	New Zealand	4	3	1	0
		Total			7	3	3	1
12	Gerry Alexander	1957/8	Pakistan	West Indies	5	3	1	1
		1958/9	India	India	5	3	0	2
		1958/9	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	1	2	0
		1959/60	England	West Indies	5	0	1	4
		Total			18	7	4	7
13	Frank Worrell	1960/1	Australia	Australia	5	1	2	22
		1961/2	India	West Indies	5	5	0	0
		1963	England	England	5	3	1	1
		Total			15	9	3	32
14	Garfield Sobers 3	1964/5	Australia	West Indies	5	2	1	2
		1966	England	England	5	3	1	1
		1966/7	India	India	3	2	0	1
		1967/8	England	West Indies	5	0	1	4
		1968/9	Australia	Australia	5	1	3	1
		1968/9	New Zealand	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
		1969	England	England	3	0	2	1
		1970/1	India	West Indies	5	0	1	4
		1971/2	New Zealand	West Indies	5	0	0	5
		Total			39	9	10	20
15	Rohan Kanhai	1972/3	Australia	West Indies	5	0	2	3
		1973	England	England	3	2	0	1
		1973/4	England	West Indies	5	1	1	3
		Total			13	3	3	7
16	Clive Lloyd	1974/5	India	India	5	3	2	0
		1974/5	Pakistan	Pakistan	2	0	0	2
		1975/6	Australia	Australia	6	1	5	0
		1975/6	India	West Indies	4	2	1	1
		1976	England	England	5	3	0	2
		1976/7	Pakistan	West Indies	5	2	1	2
		1977/8†	Australia	West Indies	2	2	0	0
		1979/80	Australia	Australia	2	2	0	0
		1979/80	New Zealand	New Zealand	3	0	1	2
		1980	England	England	4	1	0	3
		1980/1	Pakistan	Pakistan	4	1	0	3
		1980/1	England	West Indies	4	2	0	2
		1981/2	Australia	Australia	3	1	1	1
		1982/3	India	West Indies	5	2	0	3
		1983/4	India	India	6	3	0	3
		1983/4	Australia	West Indies	4	3	0	1
		1984	England	England	5	5	0	0
		1984/5	Australia	Australia	5	3	1	1
		Total			74	36	12	26
17	Alvin Kallicharran	1977/8	Australia	West Indies	3	1	1	1
		1978/9	India	India	6	0	1	5
		Total			9	1	2	6
18	Deryck Murray	1979/80†	Australia	Australia	1	0	0	1
19	Viv Richards	1980†	England	England	1	0	0	1
		1983/4	Australia	West Indies	1	0	0	1
		1984/5	New Zealand	West Indies	4	2	0	2
		1985/6	England	West Indies	5	5	0	0
		1986/7	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	1	1	1
		1986/7	New Zealand	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
		1987/8	India	India	4	1	1	2
		1987/8	Pakistan	West Indies	2	1	0	1
		1988	England	England	5	4	0	1
		1988/9	Australia	Australia	5	3	1	1
		1988/9	India	West Indies	4	3	0	1
		1989/90	England	West Indies	3	2	1	0
		1990/1	Australia	West Indies	5	2	1	2
		1991	England	England	5	2	2	1
		Total			50	27	8	15
20	Gordon Greenidge	1987/8†	Pakistan	West Indies	1	0	1	0
21	Desmond Haynes	1989/90†	England	West Indies	1	0	0	1
		1990/1	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	1	1	1
		Total			4	1	1	2
22	Richie Richardson	1991/2	South Africa	West Indies	1	1	0	0
		1992/3	Australia	Australia	5	2	1	2
		1992/3	Pakistan	West Indies	3	2	0	1
		1993/4	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	1	0	0	1
		1993/4	England	West Indies	4	3	1	0
		1994/5	Australia	West Indies	4	1	2	1
		1995	England	England	6	2	2	2
		Total			24	11	6	7
23	Courtney Walsh	1993/4†	England	West Indies	1	0	0	1
		1994/5	India	India	3	1	1	1
		1994/5	New Zealand	New Zealand	2	1	0	1
		1995/6	New Zealand	West Indies	2	1	0	1
		1996/7	Australia	Australia	5	2	3	0
		1996/7	India	West Indies	4	0	0	4
		1996/7	Sri Lanka	West Indies	2	1	0	1
		1997/8	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	0	3	0
		Total			22	6	7	9
24	Brian Lara	1996/7†	India	West Indies	1	1	0	0
		1997/8	England	West Indies	6	3	1	2
		1998/9	South Africa	South Africa	5	0	5	0
		1998/9	Australia	West Indies	4	2	2	0
		1999/2000	New Zealand	New Zealand	2	0	2	0
		2002/3	Australia	West Indies	4	1	3	0
		2003	Sri Lanka	West Indies	2	1	0	1
		2003/4	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2	1	0	1
		2003/4	South Africa	South Africa	4	0	3	1
		2003/4	England	West Indies	4	0	3	1
		2004	Bangladesh	West Indies	2	1	0	1
		2004	England	England	4	0	4	0
		2006	India	West Indies	4	0	1	3
		2006/7	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	0	2	1
		Total			47	10	26	11
25	Jimmy Adams	1999/2000	Zimbabwe	West Indies	2	2	0	0
		1999/2000	Pakistan	West Indies	3	1	0	2
		2000	England	England	5	1	3	1
		2000/1	Australia	Australia	5	0	5	0
		Total			15	4	8	3
26	Carl Hooper	2000/1	South Africa	West Indies	5	1	2	2
		2001	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2	1	0	1
		2001/2	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	3	0	3	0
		2001/2	Pakistan	Sharjah	2	0	2	0
		2001/2	India	West Indies	5	2	1	2
		2002	New Zealand	West Indies	2	0	1	1
		2002/3	India	India	3	0	2	1
		Total			22	4	11	7
27	Ridley Jacobs	2002/3	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	2	2	0	0
28	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	2004/5	South Africa	West Indies	4	0	2	2
		2004/5	Pakistan	West Indies	2	1	1	0
		2005	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	2	0	2	0
		2005/6	Australia	Australia	3	0	3	0
		2005/6	New Zealand	New Zealand	3	0	2	1
		Total			14	1	10	3
29	Ramnaresh Sarwan	2007	England	England	2	0	1	1
		2008	Australia	West Indies	2	0	1	1
		Total			4	0	2	2
30	Daren Ganga	2007†	England	England	2	0	2	0
31	Chris Gayle	2007/8	South Africa	South Africa	2	1	1	0
		2007/8	Sri Lanka	West Indies	2	1	1	0
		2008†	Australia	West Indies	1	0	1	0
		2008/09	New Zealand	New Zealand	2	0	0	2
		2008/09	England	West Indies	5	1	0	4
		2009	England	England	2	0	2	0
		2009/10	Australia	Australia	3	0	2	1
		2010	South Africa	West Indies	3	0	2	1
		Total			20	3	9	8
32	Dwayne Bravo	2007/8†	South Africa	South Africa	1	0	1	0
33	Floyd Reifer	2009	Bangladesh	West Indies	2	0	2	0
34	Darren Sammy	2010/11	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	3	0	0	3
		2011	Pakistan	West Indies	2	1	1	0
		2011	India	West Indies	3	0	1	2
		2011	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	2	1	0	1
		2011	India	India	3	0	2	1
		2011/12	Australia	West Indies	3	0	2	1
		2012	England	England	3	0	2	1
		2012	New Zealand	West Indies	2	2	0	0
		2012/13	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	2	2	0	0
		2012/13	Zimbabwe	West Indies	2	2	0	0
		2013/14	India	India	2	0	2	0
		2013/14	New Zealand	New Zealand	3	0	2	1
		Total			30	8	12	10
35	Denesh Ramdin	2014	New Zealand	West Indies	3	1	2	0
		2014	Bangladesh	West Indies	2	2	0	0
		2014/15	South Africa	South Africa	3	0	2	1
		2014/15	England	West Indies	3	1	1	1
		2015	Australia	West Indies	2	0	2	0
		Total			13	4	7	2
36	Jason Holder	2015/16	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	2	0	2	0
		2015/16	Australia	Australia	3	0	2	1
		2016	India	West Indies	4	0	2	2
		2016	Pakistan	UAE	3	1	2	0
		2016/17	Pakistan	West Indies	3	1	2	0
		2017	England	England	3	1	2	0
		2017	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2	1	0	1
		2017/18	New Zealand	New Zealand	1	0	1	0
		2018	Sri Lanka	West Indies	3	1	1	1
		2018	Bangladesh	West Indies	2	2	0	0
		2018/19	India	India	1	0	1	0
		2018/19	England	West Indies	2	2	0	0
		2019	India	West Indies	2	0	2	0
		2019/20	Afghanistan	India	1	1	0	0
		2020	England	England	3	1	2	0
		2020/21	New Zealand	New Zealand	2	0	2	0
		Total			37	11	21	5
37	Kraigg Brathwaite	2017/18†	New Zealand	New Zealand	1	0	1	0
		2018/19†	India	India	1	0	1	0
		2018/19	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	2	0	2	0
		2018/19†	England	West Indies	1	0	1	0
		2020/21	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	2	2	0	0
		2020/21	Sri Lanka	West Indies	2	0	0	2
		2021	South Africa	West Indies	2	0	2	0
		2021	Pakistan	West Indies	2	1	1	0
		2021/22	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	2	0	2	0
		2021/22	England	West Indies	3	1	0	2
		2022	Bangladesh	West Indies	2	2	0	0
		2022/23	Australia	Australia	2	0	2	0
		2022/23	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2	1	0	1
		2022/23	South Africa	South Africa	2	0	2	0
		2023	India	West Indies	2	0	1	1
		2023/24	Australia	Australia	2	1	1	0
		2024	England	England	3	0	3	0
		2024	South Africa	West Indies	2	0	1	1
		2024/25	Bangladesh	West Indies	2	1	1	0
		2024/25	Pakistan	Pakistan	2	1	1	0
		Total			39	10	22	7
Grand total					584	185	216	1832

Notes:

• ¹ Jackie and Rolph Grant were brothers
• ² Includes one tie
• ³ Garfield Sobers also captained the Rest of the World team in England in 1970 and in Australia in 1971/2. These series were arranged to replace planned tours of those countries by South Africa, which were cancelled because of the apartheid policies followed by the South African government of the time.

Men's ODI captains

This is a complete list of every man who has captained the West Indies in at least one One Day International. It is complete up to third and final ODI match for the West Indies in the 2024-25 Bangladeshi tour of the West Indies.

West Indian ODI captains

Number	Name	Period of captaincy	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	No result
1	Rohan Kanhai	1973	2	1	0	1	0
2	Clive Lloyd	1975–1985	84	64	1	18	1
3	Deryck Murray	1978–1979	2	2	0	0	0
4	Alvin Kallicharan	1978	1	0	0	1	0
5	Viv Richards	1980–1991	105	67	0	36	2
6	Michael Holding	1984	2	2	0	0	0
7	Gordon Greenidge	1988	8	6	0	2	0
8	Desmond Haynes	1989–1993	7	3	0	4	0
9	Jeff Dujon	1990	1	1	0	0	0
10	Richie Richardson	1991–1996	87	46	3	36	2
11	Courtney Walsh	1994–1997	43	22	0	20	1
12	Brian Lara	1994–2007	125	59	0	59	7
13	Carl Hooper	1997–2003	49	23	0	24	2
14	Jimmy Adams	1999–2001	26	10	1	14	1
15	Sherwin Campbell	2001	1	0	0	1	0
16	Ridley Jacobs	2002	4	2	0	1	1
17	Ramnaresh Sarwan	2004–2008	5	4	0	1	0
18	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	2005–2006	16	2	0	14	0
19	Sylvester Joseph	2005	1	0	0	1	0
20	Chris Gayle	2007–2010	53	17	0	30	6
21	Dwayne Bravo	2007–2014	37	17	2	18	0
22	Floyd Reifer	2009	6	0	0	6	0
23	Darren Sammy	2010–2013	51	19	1	30	1
24	Denesh Ramdin	2011	1	1	0	0	0
25	Kieron Pollard	2013–2022	24	13	0	11	0
26	Jason Holder	2015–2019	86	24	2	54	6
27	Marlon Samuels	2015	1	0	0	1	0
28	Jason Mohammed	2017-2021	4	0	0	4	0
29	Rovman Powell	2018	3	1	0	2	0
30	Nicholas Pooran	2022-2023	17	4	0	13	0
31	Shai Hope	2022-present	29	15	1	13	0
32	Roston Chase	2023	1	1	0	0	0
Grand total			882	426	11	415	30

Men's Twenty20 International captains

This is a complete list of every man who has captained the West Indies in at least one Twenty20 international. It is complete up to the third and final T20I match for the West Indies in the 2024-25 Bangladeshi tour of the West Indies.

The first Twenty20 International involving West Indies was played in February 2006 against New Zealand in Auckland. This match was the first tied Twenty20 International and also involved the first bowl-out (won by New Zealand).

Two years later in December 2008, another match between New Zealand and West Indies at the same venue in Auckland was also tied and this match involved the first elimination over/Super Over (won by West Indies) which is meant to replace the bowl-out.

The first Twenty20 International played in the West Indies was played on 20 June 2008 against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados.

West Indian Twenty20 International captains

No.	Name	Span	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	NR
1	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	2006	1	0	1	0	0
2	Chris Gayle	2007–2010	17	6	1	10	0
3	Ramnaresh Sarwan	2007	2	0	0	2	0
4	Dwayne Bravo	2007–2014	6	3	0	3	0
5	Denesh Ramdin	2009–2010	3	1	0	2	0
6	Floyd Reifer	2009	1	1	0	0	0
7	Darren Sammy	2011–2016	47	27	1	17	2
8	Carlos Brathwaite	2016–2019	30	11	0	17	2
9	Jason Mohammed	2018	3	0	0	3	0
10	Jason Holder	2019	3	0	0	3	0
11	Kieron Pollard	2019–2022	39	13	0	21	5
12	Nicholas Pooran	2021–2022	23	8	0	14	1
13	Rovman Powell	2022–present	37	19	0	17	1
14	Brandon King	2024	3	3	0	0	0
15	Roston Chase	2024	1	1	0	0	0
Grand total			217	93	3	110	11

Captains in Men's ICC tournaments

WI Captains in ICC Tournaments
Tournament	Name	Captain's Country	Format	Played	Won	Lost	Tied/NR	Stand	Winning rate
1975 Cricket World Cup	Clive Lloyd	Guyana	60 overs	5	5	0	0	Champions	100%
1979 Cricket World Cup	Clive Lloyd	Guyana	60 overs	5	4	0	1	Champions	80%
1983 Cricket World Cup	Clive Lloyd	Guyana	60 overs	8	6	2	0	Runners-up	75%
1987 Cricket World Cup	Viv Richards	Antigua and Barbuda	50 overs	6	3	3	0	Group stage	50%
1992 Cricket World Cup	Richie Richardson	Antigua and Barbuda	50 overs	6	3	3	0	Group stage	50%
1996 Cricket World Cup	Richie Richardson	Antigua and Barbuda	50 overs	7	3	4	0	Semi Finals	42.3%
1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy	Brian Lara	Trinidad and Tobago	50 overs	3	2	1	0	Runners-up	75%
1999 Cricket World Cup	Brian Lara	Trinidad and Tobago	50 overs	5	3	2	0	Group Stage	60%
2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy	Sherwin Campbell	Barbados	50 overs	1	0	1	0	Group Stage	0
2002 ICC Champions Trophy	Carl Hooper	Guyana	50 overs	2	1	1	0	Group Stage	50%
2003 Cricket World Cup	Carl Hooper	Guyana	50 overs	6	3	2	1	Super Six	50%
2004 ICC Champions Trophy	Brian Lara	Trinidad and Tobago	50 overs	4	4	0	0	Champions	100%
2006 ICC Champions Trophy	Brian Lara	Trinidad and Tobago	50 overs	8	5	3	0	Runners-up	62.5%
2007 Cricket World Cup	Brian Lara	Trinidad and Tobago	50 overs	10	5	5	0	Super 8	50%
2007 World Twenty20	Ramnaresh Sarwan	Guyana	20 overs	2	0	2	0	Group Stage	0%
2009 World Twenty20	Chris Gayle	Jamaica	20 overs	6	4	3	0	Semi Finals	50%
2009 ICC Champions Trophy	Floyd Reifer	Barbados	50 overs	3	0	3	0	Group Stage	0%
2010 World Twenty20	Chris Gayle	Jamaica	20 overs	5	3	2	0	Super 8	60%
2011 Cricket World Cup	Darren Sammy	Saint Lucia	50 overs	7	3	4	0	Quarter-Finals	43%
2012 World Twenty20	Darren Sammy	Saint Lucia	20 overs	7	3	2	2	Champions	43%
2013 ICC Champions Trophy	Dwayne Bravo	Trinidad and Tobago	50 overs	3	1	1	1	Group Stage	20%
2014 World Twenty20	Darren Sammy	Saint Lucia	20 overs	5	3	2	0	Semi Finals	60%
2015 Cricket World Cup	Jason Holder	Barbados	50 overs	7	3	4	0	Quarter-Finals	43%
2016 World Twenty20	Darren Sammy	Saint Lucia	20 overs	6	5	1	0	Champions	83.33%
2019 Cricket World Cup	Jason Holder	Barbados	50 overs	9	2	6	1	Group Stage	22.22%
2021 World Twenty20	Kieron Pollard	Trinidad and Tobago	20 overs	5	1	4	0	Group Stage	20%
2022 Men's T20 World Cup	Nicholas Pooran	Trinidad and Tobago	20 overs	3	1	2	0	Group Stage	33.33%
2024 Men's T20 World Cup	Rovman Powell	Jamaica	20 overs	7	5	2	0	Super 8	71%

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.

Rest of the World Test match captains
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
1	Garfield Sobers	1970	England	England	5	4	1	0
		1971/2	Australia	Australia	5	2	1	2
		Total			10	6	2	2

Rest of the World ODI captains
Number	Name	Period of captaincy	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	No result
1	Garfield Sobers	1971/2	2	1	0	1	0

World Series Cricket, 1977/8 to 1978/9

In 1977/8 Kerry Packer financed a breakaway cricket movement by signing up top players from Australia, the West Indies and other cricket nations around the world. Three sides were constructed: an Australian team, a West Indian team and a World team, with the World teams including some West Indians too. The teams played a mixture of unofficial Test matches, styled as Supertests, and unofficial ODIs. Unlike the Australian players, who were barred from playing official cricket until the rift was healed after the 1978/9 season, the West Indian players were permitted to play official cricket as well as compete in World Series Cricket.

West Indian Supertest match captains
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
1	Clive Lloyd	1977/8	Australia	Australia	3	2	1	0
		1978/9	World XI	Australia	1	0	1	0
		1978/9	Australia	Australia	2	0	1	1
		1978/9	Australia	West Indies	5	1	1	3
		Total			11	3	4	4

West Indian WSC ODI captains
Number	Name	Period of captaincy	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	No result
1	Clive Lloyd	1977/8-1978/9	39	24	0	11	4

Rebel tour to South Africa, 1982/3 and 1983/4

In 1982/3 and 1983/4 a group of West Indian cricketers toured apartheid South Africa. The West Indies Cricket Board banned all the tourists from cricket for life, and such was the furore caused by the visits that many of the cricketers ceased to be welcome in their home islands. The rebel West Indian squad played a series of Tests and ODIs, none of which have official status.

West Indian rebel Test match captains
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
1	Lawrence Rowe	1982/3	South Africa	South Africa	2	1	1	0
		1983/4	South Africa	South Africa	3	1	1	1
		Total			5	2	2	1
2	Alvin Kallicharan	1983/1984†	South Africa	South Africa	1	1	0	0
Grand total					6	3	2	1

West Indian rebel ODI captains
Number	Name	Period of captaincy	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	No result
1	Lawrence Rowe	1982/3-1983/4	11	7	0	4	0
2	Alvin Kallicharan	1983/4	1	1	0	0	0
Grand total			12	8	0	4	0

Women's cricket

Test match captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the West Indian women's cricket team for at least one women's Test match. The table of results is complete to the Test against Pakistan in 2003/4.

West Indian women's Test match captains
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
1	Louise Browne	1975/6	Australia	West Indies	2	0	0	2
		1976/7	India	India	6	1	1	4
		Total			8	1	1	6
2	Patricia Whittaker	1979	England	England	3	0	2	1
3	Stephanie Power	2003/4	Pakistan	Pakistan	1	0	0	1
Grand total					12	1	3	8

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 and final match for the team in the 2024–2025 Bangladeshi women's tour of the West Indies.

West Indian women's ODI captains

Number	Name	Year	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	No result
1	Grace Williams	1979	1	0	0	1	0
2	Patricia Whittaker	1979	1	1	0	0	0
3	Rita Scott	1993	1	0	0	1	0
4	Ann Browne	1993-1998	9	3	0	6	0
5	Marlene Needham	1997	1	0	0	1	0
6	Verena Felician	2003	6	0	0	6	0
7	Stephanie Power	2003–2005	25	13	0	11	1
8	Envis Williams	2004	1	0	0	1	0
9	Nadine George	2008	10	5	0	4	1
10	Chedean Nation	2008	3	3	0	0	0
11	Merissa Aguilleira	2009–2015	74	39	1	32	2
12	Anisa Mohammed	2010-2022	7	1	0	6	0
13	Stafanie Taylor	2013–2022	61	24	12	33	3
14	Shakera Selman	2016	1	0	0	1	0
15	Deandra Dottin	2021	1	0	11	0	0
16	Hayley Matthews	2022-present	21	8	0	11	2
17	Shemaine Campbelle	2023-2024	3	0	0	3	0
Grand total			226	97	3	117	9

Notes

• ¹ West Indies women won the One Over Eliminator against South Africa women in the fifth WODI of the 2021 South Africa women's tour of the West Indies
• ² West Indies women won the One Over Eliminator against South Africa women in the second WODI of the 2021-22 West Indies women's tour of South Africa

Women's Twenty20 International captains

This is a complete list of every woman who has captained the West Indies in at least one twenty20 international. It is complete up to the third and final match for the team in the 2024–2025 Bangladeshi women's tour of the West Indies. In 2010 West Indies women took their first international T20 title by winning the 2010 ICC Women's Cricket Challenge. The first Twenty20 International involving West Indies women was played in June 2008 against Ireland in Dublin.

West Indian Twenty20 International captains
Number	Name	Period of captaincy	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	No result
1	Nadine George	2008	3	3	0	0	0
2	Merissa Aguilleira 1,2	2009–2015, 2019	73	39	33,5,7	29	2
3	Anisa Mohammed	2010–2021	9	2	0	6	1
4	Stafanie Taylor	2012–2022	56	29	24,6	25	1
5	Shemaine Campbelle	2012	1	1	0	0	0
6	Hayley Matthews	2022-present	42	19	1	22	0
7	Karishma Ramharack	2025	1	1	0	0	0
Grand total			187	95	6	82	4

Notes:

• ¹ Also captained two warm-up matches against Pakistan and Sri Lanka which were both won by West Indies.
• ² After the 2010 Sri Lanka women's tour to the West Indies, Pakistan played an apparently unofficial 3-match series in preparation for the Women's World Twenty20. Aguilleira captained WI women entirely in this series which WI women won 2–1. This was followed by two official warm-up matches (in which Aguilleira also captained WI women), one against Pakistan women again (won by Pakistan) and one against New Zealand women (won by West Indies women).
• ³ West Indies won the Super Over in this match by 3 runs with WI scoring 10/1 and Pakistan scoring 7/1
• ⁴ West Indies won the One Over Eliminator in this match with England scoring 6/1 and West Indies replying with 9/0
• ⁵ New Zealand won the One Over Eliminator in this match with West Indies scoring 5/2 and New Zealand replying with 8/0
• ⁶ West Indies won the One Over Eliminator in this match with Pakistan scoring 3/2 and West Indies replying with 6/1
• ⁷ West Indies won the One Over Eliminator in this match with West Indies scoring 18/0 and Pakistan replying with 1/2

Youth cricket

Youth Test match captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the West Indian U-19 cricket team for at least one under-19 Test match. The table of results is complete to the second and final youth Test match of the 2023 tour of Sri Lanka by the West Indies U-19 team and includes the only youth Test match of the 2011 Dubai Series between the West Indies U-19 team and the Australia U-19 team and the third Test against England in 2001.

West Indian Under-19 Test match captains
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
1	Colin Murray	1974	England	England	3	1	0	2
2	Timur Mohamed	1976	England	West Indies	1	0	1	0
3	Austin White	1978	England	England	3	0	1	2
4	Marlon Tucker	1979/80	England	West Indies	3	2	0	1
5	Roger Harper	1982	England	England	3	2	0	1
6	Zorol Barthley	1984/5	England	West Indies	3	2	0	1
7	Brian Lara	1987/8	Australia	Australia	1	1	0	0
8	Sherwin Campbell	1990	Australia	West Indies	3	0	2	1
9	Ian Bradshaw	1993	England	England	3	0	1	2
10	Andre Percival	1994/5	England	England	3	1	0	2
11	Gareth Breese	1995/6	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	2	0	1
12	Shirley Clarke	1996/7	Pakistan	West Indies	3	0	0	3
13	Brenton Parchment	2001	England	England	3	1	0	2
14	Kraigg Brathwaite	2011	Australia	UAE	1	1	0	0
15	Nathan Sealy	2023	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	2	0	1	1
Grand total					38	13	6	19

Youth One-Day International captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the West Indian U-19 cricket team for at least one U-19 One Day International. The table of results is complete to the fifth and final youth ODI match for the West Indies U-19 team of the 2024 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, all three youth ODI matches of the 2023 tour of Sri Lanka by the West Indies U-19 team, all six youth ODI match for the WI U-19 in the 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, all six youth ODI match for the WI U-19 in the 2021 West Indies Under-19 tour of England, all six youth ODI match for the WI U-19 team in the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, all six youth ODI match for the WI U-19 team in the 2019 Under-19 Tri-Nation Tournament in the West Indies, all six youth ODI matches for the WI U-19 team in 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, all three youth ODI match for the WI U-19 team in the 2017 West Indies Under-19 tour of Zimbabwe, all five matches for the WI U-19 team in the 2017 West Indies Under-19 tour of South Africa, all six matches for the WI U-19 team of the 2016 U-19 Cricket World Cup, all three matches for the WI U-19 team of 2015/2016 West Indies U-19 tour of Bangladesh, all six matches for the WI U-19 team of the 2014 U-19 Cricket World Cup, the one and only youth ODI match of the 2013/2014 West Indies U-19 tour of Bangladesh (the other six matches were cancelled following an explosion near the WI U-19 team hotel), all seven youth ODI matches of the 2013/2014 Bangladesh U-19 tour of the West Indies, the 2012 U-19 Cricket World Cup (all six matches including the fifth place playoff), all seven youth ODI matches for the West Indies U-19 team in the 2011/12 U-19 Quadrangular Series in India, all three youth ODI matches of the 2011 Dubai Series between the West Indies U-19 team and the Australia U-19 team and all six matches of the West Indies team in the 2009/10 U-19 Cricket World Cup where they lost in the semi-finals to the Pakistan U-19 cricket team but beat the Sri Lanka U-19 cricket team in the playoff to place third in the tournament. West Indies U-19s' best result in an U-19 World Cup has been as champions in 2016. Previously they were a finalist in 2003/04 and 2007/08 they won the plate final for the U-19 World Cup.

West Indian Under-19 ODI captains
Number	Name	Year	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	No result
1	Timur Mohamed	1976	1	0	0	1	0
2	Austin White	1978	1	0	0	1	0
3	Roger Harper	1982	2	0	0	2	0
4	Zorol Barthley	1985	2	1	0	1	0
5	Brian Lara	1988	8	5	0	3	0
6	Ian Bradshaw	1993	2	0	0	2	0
7	Rawl Lewis	1995	2	1	0	1	0
8	Andre Percival	1995	1	0	0	1	0
9	Gareth Breese	1995	3	1	0	2	0
10	Shirley Clarke	1996	3	2	0	1	0
11	Sylvester Joseph	1998	7	4	0	3	0
12	Ryan Hinds	2000	5	3	0	2	0
13	Marlon Samuels	2000	1	1	0	0	0
14	Brenton Parchment	2001	3	2	0	1	0
15	Narsingh Deonarine	2002	7	4	0	3	0
16	Denesh Ramdin	2004	12	7	0	5	0
17	Leon Johnson	2006	8	3	0	5	0
18	Jason Mohammed	2006	1	0	0	1	0
19	Shamarh Brooks	2008	8	4	0	4	0
20	Steven Jacobs	2008	1	1	0	0	0
21	Andre Creary	2010	4	2	0	2	0
22	Yannick Ottley	2010	2	2	0	0	0
23	Kraigg Brathwaite	2011/12	16	8	0	8	0
24	Ramaal Lewis	2013/14	13	6	0	7	0
25	Jeremy Solozano	2013	1	0	0	1	0
26	Shimron Hetmyer	2015/16	9	5	0	4	0
27	Emmanuel Stewart	2017	14	8	0	6	0
28	Kimani Melius	2019–2020	12	6	0	5	1
29	Ackeem Auguste	2021-2022	5	1	0	4	0
30	Giovonte Depeiza	2021-2022	4	2	0	2	0
31	Matthew Nandu	2022–2023	3	2	0	1	0
32	Stephan Pascal	2023–present	8	4	0	3	1
Grand total			169	85	0	82	2

Youth Women's Twenty20 International captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the West Indies women's under-19 cricket team for at least one U-19 Twenty20 International. The table of results is complete to the fifth and final youth ODI match for the WI women's U-19 in the 2023 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup where the team advanced to the Super 6 stage before being eliminated.

West Indian Women's Under-19 T20 captains
Number	Name	Year	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	No result
1	Ashmini Munisar	2023	5	2	0	3	0
Grand total			5	2	0	3	0

Most successful captains

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. The successes of the senior men's team in international tournaments was never replicated at the youth level until the 2016 U-19 Cricket World Cup when Shimron Hetmyer lead the West Indies Under-19 team to their first ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup title. For the most recent international format of cricket, Twenty20 Internationals, the West Indies' best result in an international tournament was achieved in the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 and 2016 ICC World Twenty20 where the team won the ICC World Twenty20 under the captaincy of Darren Sammy. Stafanie Taylor led the West Indies' women's team to their best result in an international Twenty20 tournament when the team won the 2016 ICC Women's World Twenty20. Prior to that Merissa Aguilleira led West Indies women to the semi-finals in the 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20, the 2012 ICC Women's World Twenty20 and the 2014 ICC Women's World Twenty20 and also led the women to their first title in an international Women's Twenty20 tournament during the 2010 ICC Women's Cricket Challenge. Both the West Indies' men's and women's teams made it to the semi-finals of the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 and 2012 ICC Women's World Twenty20 under the captaincies of Darren Sammy and Merissa Aguilleira respectively; the third time the men's and women's teams from the same country have done this in the ICC World Twenty20 after Australia's men and women's teams achieved the feat in 2010 and 2012. This feat was repeated for the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 and 2014 ICC Women's World Twenty20 when the West Indies' men's and women's teams made it to the semi-finals again under the captaincies of Darren Sammy and Merissa Aguillera. This was bettered in 2016 when both the West Indies' men's and women's teams not only made it to the semi-finals but won the tournaments for the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 and 2016 ICC Women's World Twenty20 under the captaincies of Darren Sammy and Stafanie Taylor. Along with men and women's teams from New Zealand (in 2016), England (2016), South Africa (2014), and Australia (2012 and 2010) who also made it the semi-finals in the previous tournaments, this was the eighth time men's and women's teams from the same country have reached the semi-finals in the same year of the ICC World Twenty20. It was also only the second time (after Australia in 2010) that men's and women's teams from the same country have reached the final in the same year of the ICC's premier Twenty20 tournaments. Merissa Aguilleira also led the West Indies women to its best result in Women's ODI cricket when the team finished second in the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup (bettering their previous best finish in the Women's World Cup of fifth place in 2005). Their previous best result had been under Stephanie Power when she led the West Indies to second place in the 2003 IWCC Trophy. Aguilleira is also the most successful West Indies women's captain in one-day internationals, winning 32 of 55 matches. The only women's captain who has led her side to a victory in a women's Test match is Louise Browne in the 1976/77 Test series against India.

See also

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

References

1. Canada Cricket online – scroll to "West Indies 1886 tour to Canada"
2. The Development of West Indies Cricket Google Books results pages 22 and 23
3. Canada Cricket online – scroll to "The first West Indies cricket tour"
4. West Indies versus the Gentlemen of the United States of America 1888
5. Cricket Archive: Edward Wright

• Cricket Archive
• Wisden Cricketers' Almanack