The West Indies cricket team officially called as Windies (a nickname that became official in Gregorian calendar month 2017), may be a multi-national cricket team representing the Anglophone Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West Indies.
The players on this composite team are elected from a series of fifteen Caribbean territories that are components of many totally different countries and dependencies. As of 24 June 2018, the West Indian cricket team is ranked ninth in the world in Tests, ninth in ODIs and seventh in T20Is in the official ICC rankings. From the mid-late Nineteen Seventies to the first Nineteen 1990, the archipelago team was the strongest within the world in each take a look at and in some unspecified time in the future International cricket.
A number of cricketers which are best in the world have hailed from the West Indies: Sir President Garfield Sobers, Lance chemist, martyr Headley, Brian Lara, Clive Lloyd, Malcolm Marshall, Sir Andy Roberts, Rohan Kanhai, Sir Frank Worrell, Sir Clyde Walcott, Sir Everton Weekes, Sir shortly Doctor of the Church, Michael Holding, Courtney Walsh, Joel Garner, Sir Viv semanticist and Sir Wes Hall have all been inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame
