The west indies cricket group, nicknamed the windies, is a multi-national men's cricket team representing the particularly english-speakme international locations and territories inside the caribbean area and administered via cricket west indies. The players on this composite group are decided on from a sequence of fifteen caribbean realms and territories. As of thirteen may additionally 2021, the west indies cricket group is ranked seventh in exams and ninth in both odis and t20is in the reliable icc rankings. From the mid-past due 1970s to the early nineties, the west indies crew changed into the strongest in the international in each test and in the future international cricket. A number of cricketers who had been taken into consideration the various first-class inside the world have hailed from the west indies: garfield sobers, lance gibbs, george headley, brian lara, vivian richards, clive lloyd, malcolm marshall, alvin kallicharran, andy roberts, rohan kanhai, frank worrell, clyde walcott, everton weekes, curtly ambrose, michael conserving, courtney walsh, joel garner, and wes hall have all been inducted into the icc cricket corridor of fame. The west indies have gained the icc cricket international cup twice (1975 and 1979, when it was styled the prudential cup), the icc t20 international cup two times (2012 and 2016, while it became styled international twenty20), the icc champions trophy as soon as (2004), the icc under 19 cricket global cup as soon as (2016), and have additionally finished as runners-up inside the cricket international cup (1983), the beneath 19 cricket world cup (2004), and the icc champions trophy (2006). The west indies regarded in three consecutive global cup finals (1975, 1979 and 1983), and had been the first crew to win again-to-returned international cups (1975 and 1979), both of those records have been surpassed best by australia, who appeared in 4 consecutive global cup finals (1996, 1999, 2003 and 2007) prevailing 3 consecutive international cups (1999, 2003 and 2007). The west indies have hosted the 2007 cricket global cup and the 2010 icc world twenty20.