West Indies

11 entries

Kensington Oval

GroundWest IndiesFounding 1800-1900

Kensington Oval staged the 2007 World Cup final, where Australia beat Sri Lanka in fading light. The Party Stand and the Bajan cro...

Sabina Park

GroundWest IndiesFounding 1800-1900

Sabina Park in Jamaica was feared in the 1970s and 1980s for pace and bounce, the fastest surface in the Caribbean. England were b...

Garfield Sobers

PlayerWest IndiesPostwar 1945-1985

Sobers made 365 not out against Pakistan at Kingston in 1958 at 21 years old, then the highest Test score. In 1968 he hit six sixe...

Viv Richards

PlayerWest IndiesPostwar 1945-1985

Richards batted with regal menace, making 1,710 Test runs in the 1976 calendar year and 189 not out at Old Trafford in the same su...

Brian Lara

PlayerWest IndiesModern 1986-Present

Lara made 375 against England at Antigua in 1994, the Test record for nine years, and 501 not out for Warwickshire the same season...

Malcolm Marshall

PlayerWest IndiesPostwar 1945-1985

Marshall combined skiddy pace with vicious late swing and cut, taking 376 Test wickets at 20.94 with the best strike rate of the l...

Curtly Ambrose

PlayerWest IndiesModern 1986-Present

The 6 foot 7 Antiguan produced perhaps the most devastating spell of the modern era, 7 wickets for 1 run against Australia at the ...

Michael Holding

PlayerWest IndiesPostwar 1945-1985

Holding delivered the most beautiful fast bowling action ever filmed, the run so smooth umpires never heard him coming. At The Ova...

Frank Worrell

PlayerWest IndiesPostwar 1945-1985

One of the three Ws of Barbados with Everton Weekes and Clyde Walcott, Worrell was an elegant batsman who became West Indies capta...

Clive Lloyd

PlayerWest IndiesPostwar 1945-1985

Lloyd scored a century in the first World Cup final at Lords in 1975 and led the West Indies to a second title in 1979. Building h...

Queens Park Oval

GroundWest IndiesFounding 1800-1900

The Queens Park Oval in Trinidad has long been one of the largest cricket grounds in the Caribbean, with the hills of the Northern...