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The West Indies cricket team, also known colloquially as The Windies or The West Indies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of the West Indies. The " Windies " is one of the twelve elite international teams that play at the Test match cricket -level. The West Indies women's cricket team made its Test debut in ...
Pre-1999 Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board and Team Flag of the West Indies Cricket Board and Team used until mid-2017. From the 1880s onwards there had been no central body to co-ordinate the Inter-Colonial Tournaments and matches, select composite West Indian XIs for tours and against touring sides and to organise the West Indian tours of England, Canada and the United States.
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 ...
The England cricket team toured the West Indies in January to play five Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. [ 1] The England team also returned to the Caribbean in March to play three Test matches. [ 2] The Test series was the first time that the teams played for the Richards–Botham Trophy. [ 3][ 4] The Test series formed part of the 2021 ...
This article describes the history of West Indies cricket from 1946 to 1970. First-class cricket in the West Indies had begun in February 1865 and the federation began playing Test cricket in 1928, but it was not until the 1965–66 West Indian cricket season that a formal domestic competition was founded, this being the Shell Shield which has subsequently evolved into the Carib Beer Cup.
The England national cricket team toured the West Indies from January to April 1930 and played a four-match Test series against the West Indies cricket team which was drawn 1–1. England were captained by Freddie Calthorpe; West Indies by a different captain at each venue. [1] [2] They were the first Tests played in the West Indies.
The West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies cricket team are made up of representatives from 15 mainly English-speaking countries in the Caribbean, which are: Anguilla [ n 1][ n 2] Antigua and Barbuda [ n 2] Barbados. British Virgin Islands [ n 1][ n 2] Dominica [ n 3] Grenada [ n 3] Guyana. Jamaica.
The history of the West Indian cricket team begins in the 1880s when the first combined West Indian team was formed and toured Canada and the United States. [ 1][ 2] In the 1890s, the first representative sides were selected to play visiting English sides. Administered by the West Indies Cricket Board ("WICB"), [ 3] and known colloquially as ...