List of West Indies 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. 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 Indian sides are also listed below.

Prior to becoming a member of the ICC, the first combined West Indian 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 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 up to the second and final Test match for the West Indies in the 2020-21 West Indian tour of New Zealand. 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 1928EnglandEngland3030
1929/30†EnglandWest Indies1001
Total4031
2Teddy Hoad1929/30†EnglandWest Indies1001
3Nelson Betancourt1929/30†EnglandWest Indies1010
4Maurice Fernandes1929/30†EnglandWest Indies1100
5 Jackie Grant1 1930/1AustraliaAustralia5140
1933EnglandEngland3021
1934/5EnglandWest Indies4211
Total12372
6Rolph Grant11939EnglandEngland3012
7George Headley
1947/8†EnglandWest Indies1001
8Gerry Gomez
1947/8†EnglandWest Indies1001
9 John Goddard
1947/8EnglandWest Indies2200
1948/9IndiaIndia5104
1950EnglandEngland4310
1951/2AustraliaAustralia4130
1951/2New ZealandNew Zealand2101
1957EnglandEngland5032
Total22877
10 Jeffrey Stollmeyer 1951/2†AustraliaAustralia1010
1952/3IndiaWest Indies5104
1953/4EnglandWest Indies5221
1954/5†AustraliaWest Indies2011
Total13346
11 Denis Atkinson
1954/5AustraliaWest Indies3021
1955/6New ZealandNew Zealand4310
Total7331
12 Gerry Alexander
1957/8PakistanWest Indies5311
1958/9IndiaIndia5302
1958/9PakistanPakistan3120
1959/60EnglandWest Indies5014
Total18747
13 Frank Worrell
1960/1AustraliaAustralia51222
1961/2IndiaWest Indies5500
1963EnglandEngland5311
Total159332
14 Garfield Sobers3
1964/5AustraliaWest Indies5212
1966EnglandEngland5311
1966/7IndiaIndia3201
1967/8EnglandWest Indies5014
1968/9AustraliaAustralia5131
1968/9New ZealandNew Zealand3111
1969EnglandEngland3021
1970/1IndiaWest Indies5014
1971/2New ZealandWest Indies5005
Total3991020
15 Rohan Kanhai 1972/3AustraliaWest Indies5023
1973EnglandEngland3201
1973/4EnglandWest Indies5113
Total13337
16 Clive Lloyd
1974/5IndiaIndia5320
1974/5PakistanPakistan2002
1975/6AustraliaAustralia6150
1975/6IndiaWest Indies4211
1976EnglandEngland5302
1976/7PakistanWest Indies5212
1977/8†AustraliaWest Indies2200
1979/80AustraliaAustralia2200
1979/80New ZealandNew Zealand3012
1980EnglandEngland4103
1980/1PakistanPakistan4103
1980/1EnglandWest Indies4202
1981/2AustraliaAustralia3111
1982/3IndiaWest Indies5203
1983/4IndiaIndia6303
1983/4AustraliaWest Indies4301
1984EnglandEngland5500
1984/5AustraliaAustralia5311
Total74361226
17 Alvin Kallicharran 1977/8AustraliaWest Indies3111
1978/9IndiaIndia6015
Total9126
18Deryck Murray1979/80†AustraliaAustralia1001
19 Viv Richards
1980†EnglandEngland1001
1983/4AustraliaWest Indies1001
1984/5New ZealandWest Indies4202
1985/6EnglandWest Indies5500
1986/7PakistanPakistan3111
1986/7New ZealandNew Zealand3111
1987/8IndiaIndia4112
1987/8PakistanWest Indies2101
1988EnglandEngland5401
1988/9AustraliaAustralia5311
1988/9IndiaWest Indies4301
1989/90EnglandWest Indies3210
1990/1AustraliaWest Indies5212
1991EnglandEngland5221
Total5027815
20Gordon Greenidge1987/8†PakistanWest Indies1010
21 Desmond Haynes
1989/90†EnglandWest Indies1001
1990/1PakistanPakistan3111
Total4112
22 Richie Richardson 1991/2South AfricaWest Indies1100
1992/3AustraliaAustralia5212
1992/3PakistanWest Indies3201
1993/4Sri LankaSri Lanka1001
1993/4EnglandWest Indies4310
1994/5AustraliaWest Indies4121
1995EnglandEngland6222
Total241167
23 Courtney Walsh
1993/4†EnglandWest Indies1001
1994/5IndiaIndia3111
1994/5New ZealandNew Zealand2101
1995/6New ZealandWest Indies2101
1996/7AustraliaAustralia5230
1996/7IndiaWest Indies4004
1996/7Sri LankaWest Indies2101
1997/8PakistanPakistan3030
Total22679
24 Brian Lara
1996/7†IndiaWest Indies1100
1997/8EnglandWest Indies6312
1998/9South AfricaSouth Africa5050
1998/9AustraliaWest Indies4220
1999/2000New ZealandNew Zealand2020
2002/3AustraliaWest Indies4130
2003Sri LankaWest Indies2101
2003/4ZimbabweZimbabwe2101
2003/4South AfricaSouth Africa4031
2003/4EnglandWest Indies4031
2004BangladeshWest Indies2101
2004EnglandEngland4040
2006IndiaWest Indies4013
2006/7PakistanPakistan3021
Total47102611
25 Jimmy Adams 1999/2000ZimbabweWest Indies2200
1999/2000PakistanWest Indies3102
2000EnglandEngland5131
2000/1AustraliaAustralia5050
Total15483
26 Carl Hooper 2000/1South AfricaWest Indies5122
2001ZimbabweZimbabwe2101
2001/2Sri LankaSri Lanka3030
2001/2PakistanSharjah2020
2001/2IndiaWest Indies5212
2002New ZealandWest Indies2011
2002/3IndiaIndia3021
Total224117
27Ridley Jacobs2002/3BangladeshBangladesh2200
28 Shivnarine Chanderpaul
2004/5South AfricaWest Indies4022
2004/5PakistanWest Indies2110
2005Sri LankaSri Lanka2020
2005/6AustraliaAustralia3030
2005/6New ZealandNew Zealand3021
Total141103
29 Ramnaresh Sarwan 2007EnglandEngland2011
2008AustraliaWest Indies2011
Total4022
30Daren Ganga2007†EnglandEngland2020
31 Chris Gayle
2007/8South AfricaSouth Africa2110
2007/8Sri LankaWest Indies2110
2008†AustraliaWest Indies1010
2008/09New ZealandNew Zealand2002
2008/09EnglandWest Indies5104
2009EnglandEngland2020
2009/10AustraliaAustralia3021
2010South AfricaWest Indies3021
Total20398
32Dwayne Bravo
2007/8†South AfricaSouth Africa1010
33Floyd Reifer2009BangladeshWest Indies2020
34 Darren Sammy
2010/11Sri LankaSri Lanka3003
2011PakistanWest Indies2110
2011IndiaWest Indies3012
2011BangladeshBangladesh2101
2011IndiaIndia3021
2011/12AustraliaWest Indies3021
2012EnglandEngland3021
2012New ZealandWest Indies2200
2012/13BangladeshBangladesh2200
2012/13ZimbabweWest Indies2200
2013/14IndiaIndia2020
2013/14New ZealandNew Zealand3021
Total3081210
35 Denesh Ramdin 2014New ZealandWest Indies3120
2014BangladeshWest Indies2200
2014/15South AfricaSouth Africa3021
2014/15EnglandWest Indies3111
2015AustraliaWest Indies2020
Total13472
36 Jason Holder 2015/16Sri LankaSri Lanka2020
2015/16AustraliaAustralia3021
2016IndiaWest Indies4022
2016PakistanUAE3120
2016/17PakistanWest Indies3120
2017EnglandEngland3120
2017ZimbabweZimbabwe2101
2017/18New ZealandNew Zealand1010
2018Sri LankaWest Indies3111
2018BangladeshWest Indies2200
2018/19IndiaIndia1010
2018/19EnglandWest Indies2200
2019IndiaWest Indies2020
2019/20AfghanistanIndia1100
2020EnglandEngland3120
2020/21New ZealandNew Zealand2020
Total3711215
37 Kraigg Brathwaite 2017/18†New ZealandNew Zealand1010
2018/19†IndiaIndia1010
2018/19BangladeshBangladesh2020
2018/19†EnglandWest Indies1010
Total5050
Grand total5491751971782

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 the third and final match for the West Indies in the 2020-21 West Indian tour of Bangladesh.

West Indian ODI captains
Number Name Period of captaincy Played Won Tied Lost No result
1Rohan Kanhai197321010
2Clive Lloyd1975–198584641181
3Deryck Murray1978–197922000
4Alvin Kallicharan197810010
5Viv Richards1980–1991105670362
6Michael Holding198422000
7Gordon Greenidge198886020
8Desmond Haynes1989–199373040
9Jeff Dujon199011000
10Richie Richardson1991–199687463362
11Courtney Walsh1994–199743220201
12Brian Lara1994–2007125590596
13Carl Hooper1997–200349230242
14Jimmy Adams1999–200126101141
15Sherwin Campbell200110010
16Ridley Jacobs200242011
17Ramnaresh Sarwan2004–200854010
18Shivnarine Chanderpaul2005–20061620140
19Sylvester Joseph200510010
20Chris Gayle2007–201053170306
21Dwayne Bravo2007–201437172180
22Floyd Reifer200960060
23Darren Sammy2010–201351191301
24Denesh Ramdin201111000
25Kieron Pollard2013–present126060
26Jason Holder2015–201988262546
27Marlon Samuels201510010
28Jason Mohammed2017-present40040
29Rovman Powell201831020
Grand total8254011038430

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 2020-21 West Indian tour of New Zealand.

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
1Shivnarine Chanderpaul200610100
2Chris Gayle2007–20101761100
3Ramnaresh Sarwan200720020
4Dwayne Bravo2007–201463030
5Denesh Ramdin2009–201031020
6Floyd Reifer200911000
7Darren Sammy2011–201647271172
8Carlos Brathwaite2016–201930110172
9Jason Mohammed201830030
10Jason Holder201930030
11Kieron Pollard2019–present145072
Grand total127543646

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 1970EnglandEngland5410
1971/2AustraliaAustralia5212
Total10622
Rest of the World ODI captains
Number Name Period of captaincy Played Won Tied Lost No result
1Garfield Sobers1971/221010

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 1977/8AustraliaAustralia3210
1978/9WorldAustralia1010
1978/9AustraliaAustralia2011
1978/9AustraliaWest Indies5113
Total11344
West Indian WSC ODI captains
Number Name Period of captaincy Played Won Tied Lost No result
1Clive Lloyd1977/8-1978/939240114

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 1982/3South AfricaSouth Africa2110
1983/4South AfricaSouth Africa3111
Total5221
2Alvin Kallicharan1983/1984†South AfricaSouth Africa1100
Grand total6321
West Indian rebel ODI captains
Number Name Period of captaincy Played Won Tied Lost No result
1Lawrence Rowe1982/3-1983/4117040
2Alvin Kallicharan1983/411000
Grand total128040

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 1975/6AustraliaWest Indies2002
1976/7IndiaIndia6114
Total8116
2Patricia Whittaker1979EnglandEngland3021
3Stephanie Power2003/4PakistanPakistan1001
Grand total12138

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 2019-20 India women's tour of West Indies (all three matches of which count as part of the 2017-2020 ICC Women's Championship).

West Indian women's ODI captains
Number Name Year Played Won Tied Lost No result
1Grace Williams197910010
2Patricia Whittaker197911000
3Rita Scott199310010
4Ann Browne1993-199893060
5Marlene Needham199710010
6Verena Felician200360060
7Stephanie Power2003–200525130111
8Envis Williams200410010
9Nadine George2008105041
10Chedean Nation200833000
11Merissa Aguilleira2009–201574391322
12Anisa Mohammed201010010
13Stafanie Taylor2013–present43160261
14Shakera Selman201610010
Grand total177801915

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 fifth and final match for the team in the 2020 West Indian women's tour of England. 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
1Nadine George200833000
2Merissa Aguilleira1,22009–2015, 2019733933,5,7292
3Anisa Mohammed2010–present61050
4Stafanie Taylor2012–present532624,6251
5Shemaine Campbelle201211000
Grand total136705593

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 only youth Test match of the 2011 Dubai Series between the West Indies U-19 team and the Australia U-19 team and includes the third Test against England in 2001.

West Indian Under-19 Test match captains
Number Name Year Opposition Location Played Won Lost Drawn
1Colin Murray1974EnglandEngland3102
2Timur Mohamed1976EnglandWest Indies1010
3Austin White1978EnglandEngland3012
4Marlon Tucker1979/80EnglandWest Indies3201
5Roger Harper1982EnglandEngland3201
6Zorol Barthley1984/5EnglandWest Indies3201
7Brian Lara1987/8AustraliaAustralia1100
8Sherwin Campbell1990AustraliaWest Indies3021
9Ian Bradshaw1993EnglandEngland3012
10Andre Percival1994/5EnglandEngland3102
11Gareth Breese1995/6PakistanPakistan3201
12Shirley Clarke1996/7PakistanWest Indies3003
13Brenton Parchment2001EnglandEngland3102
14Kraigg Brathwaite2011AustraliaUAE1100
Grand total3613518

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 sixth and final youth ODI match for the WI U-19 team in the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and includes 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
1Timur Mohamed197610010
2Austin White197810010
3Roger Harper198220020
4Zorol Barthley198521010
5Brian Lara198885030
6Ian Bradshaw199320020
7Rawl Lewis199521010
8Andre Percival199510010
9Gareth Breese199531020
10Shirley Clarke199632010
11Sylvester Joseph199874030
12Ryan Hinds200053020
13Marlon Samuels200011000
14Brenton Parchment200132010
15Narsingh Deonarine200274030
16Denesh Ramdin2004127050
17Leon Johnson200683050
18Jason Mohammed200610010
19Shamarh Brooks200884040
20Steven Jacobs200811000
21Andre Creary201042020
22Yannick Ottley201022000
23Kraigg Brathwaite2011/12168080
24Ramaal Lewis2013/14136070
25Jeremy Solozano201310010
26Shimron Hetmyer2015/1695040
27Emmanuel Stewart2017148060
28Kimani Melius2019–present126051
Grand total149760721

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

References

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