West Indies Cricket Team for ICC Cricket World Cup 2007
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West Indies Cricket Team Profile
The West Indian Cricket Team, popualry referred to as The Windies, is the national cricket team of the English-speaking Caribbean nations. The West Indian side dominated cricket scene throughout the 1970's and 1980's, but today it's struggling to regain its lost glory. The team won the first two editions of the ICC World Cup in 1975 and 1979, and lost to India in the 1983 World Cup final in a low scoring match.
The West Indies played its first official international Test match way back in 1928, and the team has produced several world-renowned cricketers in its 78 years of international cricket. The list of the most popular West Indian cricketers include the names of Garry Sobers, Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd, Joel Garner, Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, Malcolm Marshall, Viv Richards, Carl Hooper, Courtney Walsh, and Brian Lara.
West Indies will host the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2007, which would be biggest cricket event the world has ever seen. The host team is placed in Group D in the ICC team groupings, along with Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Ireland. West Indies will play its first warm-up match against Kenya on March 05, 2007 in the Trelawny Stadium in Jamaica. The team will also play in the opening match of the ICC World Cup 2007 against Pakistan on March 13, 2007 in Sabina Park, Jamaica.
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West Indies Cricket Team
Brian Lara (captain), Ramnaresh Sarwan, Chris Gayle, Dwayne Smith, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Dwayne Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Ian Bradshaw, Corey Collymore, Jerome Taylor, Denesh Ramdin, Devon Smith, Lendl Simmons, Daren Powell, Kieron Pollard.
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