Nickname | Windies |
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Association | West Indies Cricket Board |
ICC status | Full member (1926) |
ICC region | Americas |
Coach | Vasbert Drakes |
Captain | Stafanie Taylor |
First Test | |
West Indies vs. Australia (Montego Bay; 7 May 1976) |
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First ODI | |
West Indies vs. England (Teddington; 6 June 1979) |
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First T20I | |
West Indies vs. Ireland (Dublin; 27 June 2008) |
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World Cup | |
Appearances | 5 (first in 1993) |
Best result | Runner-up (2013) |
World Cup Qualifier | |
Appearances | 1 (first in 2003) |
Best result | Runner-up (2003) |
World Twenty20 | |
Appearances | 5 (first in 2009) |
Best result | Winner (2016) |
as of 3 April 2016 |
The West Indies women's cricket team, nicknamed the Windies, is a combined team of players from various countries in the Caribbean that competes in international women's cricket. The team is organised by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), which represents fifteen countries and territories.
At the inaugural edition of the World Cup, in 1973, two teams that now compete as part of the West Indies, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, competed separately. A combined West Indian team made its Test debut in 1976 (almost 50 years after its male counterpart), and its One Day International (ODI) in 1979.
The West Indies currently competes in the ICC Women's Championship, the highest level of the sport, and has participated in five of the ten editions of the Women's Cricket World Cup held to date. At the most recent 2013 World Cup, the team made the tournament's final for the first time, but lost to Australia.
At the ICC World Twenty20, the team won its first title at the 2016 tournament, having made the semi-finals in each of the preceding tournaments.
The first Test series played by the West Indies was at home to Australia in 1975–76, when both the three-day matches were drawn. In 1976–77 the same team then played a six Test series away to India. They lost the fourth and then won the sixth Test by over an innings to level the series. The remaining games were drawn.