Major honours
A single national team built from Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and several other Caribbean nations and territories — a format rarely seen elsewhere in international sport. The West Indies earned Test status in 1928, and the team's character shifted after Frank Worrell became its first regular Black captain in 1960. Its golden age ran from 1975 to 1995. With Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards batting and a fast-bowling lineage running from Andy Roberts through Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall and Curtly Ambrose, the West Indies won the first two World Cups in 1975 and 1979 and went fifteen years, from 1980 to 1995, without losing a single Test series. Regional financial trouble and player departures then triggered a sharp decline, though the team remains formidable in T20 cricket, the only two-time T20 World Cup winner, in 2012 and 2016. Failing to qualify for the 2023 ODI World Cup remains the most painful marker of where the team stands today.
Record comparison
Bars are scaled to the strongest team in this list.
Club legends
Rivalry
The Frank Worrell Trophy against Australia traces back to the tied Test in Brisbane in 1960 and was effectively the world championship series through the 1970s and 1980s. The Wisden Trophy against England also carries a distinct weight in the Caribbean tied to colonial-era memory.