Brian Lara broke the world record for the highest individual score in Test cricket at St. John's, Antigua, during a Test match against England in 2004 when he scored 400 not out.
Clifford Roach scored the first century for West Indies in Test Cricket. He scored this century against England in the 1st Test of 1929-1930 series. He also became the first to score double century for West Indies in the third Test of the same series.
10,405 in 299 ODIs, that's an average of 40.48.
Centuries: 19
Top score: 169
he faced 582 balls and batted for 778 minutes i.e 12 hours and 58 minutes
Several countries make up the West Indies cricket team. The team has players from the countries and territories of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Maarten, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago and the United States Virgin Islands.
1)It is quite simple...with Indians hav lot of passion for it.
2)It is not such costlier game as golf and lawn tennis which a dovloping country like India and other Asian countries can manage
3)Indians were ruled by British, we learnt a lot from this game for the fight of our freedom and now we play it as a kind of respect.
There has been lots of matches between Australia and West Indies but I remember China dominated the series.
Brain Lara is a well-known cricket player, who has many believed was the best of his era. He was won several titles and awards but he was never given a medal.
Carl Hooper was the captain of the West Indies Cricket team in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
Cricket is different from other team games as one form of it, i.e., Test cricket takes five days to complete and can still end in a draw. No other modern team game takes even half as much time to complete. A football match is generally over in one and a half hours. Even baseball completes nine innings in less than half the time that it takes to play a limited-overs match. Also, the length of the pitch is specified as 22 yards, but the size or shape of the ground is not. Most other team sports such as hockey and football lay down the dimensions of the playing area whereas cricket does not. Grounds can be oval like the Adelaide Oval or nearly circular like Chepauk in Chennai.
Clive Lloyd was the captain of the West Indies Cricket team in the 1975 Cricket World Cup.
Sir Donald Bradman hit only 1 six in his whole career because he didn't want to get caught out in the outfield.
The members of the West Indian team in the 1975 Cricket World Cup were:
Clive Lloyd
Keith Boyce
Roy Fredericks
Lance Gibbs
Gordon Greenidge
Vanburn Holder
Bernard Julien
Alvin Kallicharran
Rohan Kanhai
Deryck Murray
Viv Richards
Andy Roberts
Clive Lloyd served as the captain, while Deryck Murray was the team's wicket keeper.
The quarter-final of the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup played between the West Indies and Pakistan was won by Pakistan. The West Indies elected to bat and were dismissed for 112. Pakistan reached the target of 113 without losing a wicket in 20.5 overs, advancing to the semi-final of the tournament.
It took ONE innings for Lara to establish that record. A test match consists of two innings- both sides batting twice, except in a case like this: Team A bats first and scores 400 runs. Team B bats and is out for 100 runs. Team A then has the option to enforce the 'follow-on', making Team B bat its second innings immediately. If this happens, and Team B is out for 100 runs again, then Team A wins by batting one innings and 200 runs.
Brian Lara's highest score in Test cricket is 400 not out for the West Indies against Antigua in 2004.
Brian Lara's highest score a first-class innings is 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham in 1994, the only quintuple century in first-class cricket history.