This is alist of all men, boys and women who have captained theWest 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 theInternational Cricket Council) on 31 May 1926 at the same time asIndia andNew Zealand. It played its firsttest match in 1928 againstEngland atLord's. Their first game against other opposition came in 1930/31 when they playedAustralia.
In the mid-1980s there were tworebel 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 ofCharles Guy Austin Wyatt of Demerara[2] andLaurence 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 byEdward Wright.[4][5] Combined West Indian teams have played more regularfirst-class cricket under the name "West Indies" since 1897 usually against amateur sides touring from England, such asLord Brackley's XI orRA Bennett's XI, but from 1912 onwards theMCC also played on tour against the West Indies. The West Indies also toured England in1900,1906 and1923 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 wereAucher Warner,Stanley Sproston (non-first-class matches only),Harold Austin,Clement King,Alfred Harrigan,Edwin Moulder,William Sherlock,Percy Tarilton,Malcolm Austin andKarl Nunes
This is a list of cricketers who havecaptained theWest Indian cricket team for at least oneTest match.Development of the Test captaincy of West Indies falls into three eras –
The table of results is complete up to the second and final Test match for the West Indies in the2025-26 West Indian tour of India. 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.
| 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 Grant1 | 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 Grant1 | 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.jpg) | 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.jpg) | 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 Sobers3 | 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.JPG) | 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.jpg) | 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_(cropped).jpg) | 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 | ||||
| 38 | Roston Chase | 2025 | Australia | West Indies | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025/26 | India | India | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Total | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Grand total | 589 | 185 | 221 | 1832 | ||||
Notes:
This is a complete list of every man who has captained the West Indies in at least oneOne Day International. It is complete up to third and final ODI match for the West Indies in the2025-26 West Indian tour of New Zealand.
| 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 | 2023–present | 47 | 20 | 2 | 24 | 1 |
| 32 | Roston Chase | 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grand total | 900 | 431 | 12 | 426 | 31 | ||
This is a complete list of every man who has captained the West Indies in at least oneTwenty20 international. It is complete up to the fifth and final T20I match for the West Indies in the2025-26 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.
| 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 | 2022–2025 | 37 | 19 | 0 | 17 | 1 |
| 14 | Brandon King | 2024 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Roston Chase | 2024-2025 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Shai Hope | 2025-present | 19 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 1 |
| 17 | Akeal Hosein | 2025 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Grand total | 239 | 100 | 3 | 125 | 12 | ||
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.
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 |
In 1977/8Kerry 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 inWorld 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 |
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 | ||
This is a list of cricketers who havecaptained theWest Indian women's cricket team for at least onewomen'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 | ||||
This is a list of cricketers who havecaptained theWest Indian women's cricket team for at least onewomen's one-day international. The table of results is complete to the third and final match for the team in the2025 South Africa women's tour of the West Indies.
| 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 | 30 | 12 | 0 | 16 | 2 |
| 17 | Shemaine Campbelle | 2023-2025 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Grand total | 237 | 101 | 3 | 124 | 9 | ||
Notes
This is a complete list of every woman who has captained the West Indies in at least onetwenty20 international. It is complete up to the third and final match for the team in the2025 South Africa women's tour of the West Indies. In 2010 West Indies women took their first international T20 title by winning the2010 ICC Women's Cricket Challenge. The first Twenty20 International involving West Indies women was played in June 2008 againstIreland 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 Aguilleira1,2 | 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 | 48 | 21 | 1 | 26 | 0 |
| 7 | Karishma Ramharack | 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grand total | 193 | 97 | 6 | 86 | 4 | ||
Notes:
This is a list of cricketers who havecaptained theWest Indian U-19 cricket team for at least oneunder-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 againstEngland 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 | ||||
This is a list of cricketers who havecaptained theWest Indian U-19 cricket team for at least one U-19One Day International. The table of results is complete to the fourth youth ODI match for the West Indies U-19 team of the 2025/2026 England U-19 tour of the West Indies. 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 | 2023–2024 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 33 | Joshua Dorne | 2025-present | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Grand total | 180 | 92 | 0 | 86 | 2 | ||
This is a list of cricketers who havecaptained theWest Indies women's under-19 cricket team for at least one U-19Twenty20 International. The table of results is complete to the fifth and final youth ODI match for the WI women's U-19 in the2023 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 | ||
The West Indian team's greatest successes inOne Day Internationals came in 1975 and 1979, when they won theCricket World Cup under the captaincy ofClive Lloyd, and in 2004 when they won theICC Champions Trophy under the captaincy ofBrian Lara. The West Indies' most successful captains in Test cricket areViv 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) andRichie 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 the2016 U-19 Cricket World Cup whenShimron 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 the2012 ICC World Twenty20 and2016 ICC World Twenty20 where the team won theICC World Twenty20 under the captaincy ofDarren Sammy.Stafanie Taylor led the West Indies' women's team to their best result in an international Twenty20 tournament when the team won the2016 ICC Women's World Twenty20. Prior to thatMerissa Aguilleira led West Indies women to the semi-finals in the2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20, the2012 ICC Women's World Twenty20 and the2014 ICC Women's World Twenty20 and also led the women to their first title in an internationalWomen's Twenty20 tournament during the2010 ICC Women's Cricket Challenge. Both the West Indies' men's and women's teams made it to the semi-finals of the2012 ICC World Twenty20 and2012 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 the2014 ICC World Twenty20 and2014 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 inWomen's ODI cricket when the team finished second in the2013 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 underStephanie Power when she led the West Indies to second place in the2003 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 isLouise Browne in the 1976/77 Test series against India.
