West Indian Test match captains Number Name Year Opposition Location Played Won Lost Drawn Karl Nunes 1928 England England 0 0 1929 / 30 † England West Indies 0 0 Total 0 Teddy Hoad 1929 / 30 † England West Indies 0 0 Nelson Betancourt 1929 / 30 † England West Indies 0 0 Maurice Fernandes 1929 / 30 † England West Indies 0 0 5 Jackie Grant 1930 / 1 Australia Australia 5 0 1933 England England 0 1934 / 5 England West Indies Total 12 7 6 Rolph Grant 1939 England England 0 7 George Headley 1947 / 8 † England West Indies 0 0 8 Gerry Gomez 1947 / 8 † England West Indies 0 0 9 John Goddard 1947 / 8 England West Indies 0 0 1948 / 9 India India 5 0 1950 England England 0 1951 / 2 Australia Australia 0 1951 / 2 New Zealand New Zealand 0 1957 England England 5 0 Total 22 8 7 7 10 Jeffrey Stollmeyer 1951 / 2 † Australia Australia 0 0 1952 / 3 India West Indies 5 0 1953 / 4 England West Indies 5 1954 / 5 † Australia West Indies 0 Total 13 6 11 Denis Atkinson 1954 / 5 Australia West Indies 0 1955 / 6 New Zealand New Zealand 0 Total 7 12 Gerry Alexander 1957 / 8 Pakistan West Indies 5 1958 / 9 India India 5 0 1958 / 9 Pakistan Pakistan 0 1959 / 60 England West Indies 5 0 Total 18 7 7 13 Frank Worrell 1960 / 1 Australia Australia 5 1961 / 2 India West Indies 5 5 0 0 1963 England England 5 Total 15 9 14 Garfield Sobers 1964 / 5 Australia West Indies 5 1966 England England 5 1966 / 7 India India 0 1967 / 8 England West Indies 5 0 1968 / 9 Australia Australia 5 1968 / 9 New Zealand New Zealand 1969 England England 0 1970 / 1 India West Indies 5 0 1971 / 2 New Zealand West Indies 5 0 0 5 Total 39 9 10 20 15 Rohan Kanhai 1972 / 3 Australia West Indies 5 0 1973 England England 0 1973 / 4 England West Indies 5 Total 13 7 16 Clive Lloyd 1974 / 5 India India 5 0 1974 / 5 Pakistan Pakistan 0 0 1975 / 6 Australia Australia 6 5 0 1975 / 6 India West Indies 1976 England England 5 0 1976 / 7 Pakistan West Indies 5 1977 / 8 † Australia West Indies 0 0 1979 / 80 Australia Australia 0 0 1979 / 80 New Zealand New Zealand 0 1980 England England 0 1980 / 1 Pakistan Pakistan 0 1980 / 1 England West Indies 0 1981 / 2 Australia Australia 1982 / 3 India West Indies 5 0 1983 / 4 India India 6 0 1983 / 4 Australia West Indies 0 1984 England England 5 5 0 0 1984 / 5 Australia Australia 5 Total 74 36 12 26 17 Alvin Kallicharran 1977 / 8 Australia West Indies 1978 / 9 India India 6 0 5 Total 9 6 18 Deryck Murray 1979 / 80 † Australia Australia 0 0 19 Viv Richards 1980 † England England 0 0 1983 / 4 Australia West Indies 0 0 1984 / 5 New Zealand West Indies 0 1985 / 6 England West Indies 5 5 0 0 1986 / 7 Pakistan Pakistan 1986 / 7 New Zealand New Zealand 1987 / 8 India India 1987 / 8 Pakistan West Indies 0 1988 England England 5 0 1988 / 9 Australia Australia 5 1988 / 9 India West Indies 0 1989 / 90 England West Indies 0 1990 / 1 Australia West Indies 5 1991 England England 5 Total 50 27 8 15 20 Gordon Greenidge 1987 / 8 † Pakistan West Indies 0 0 21 Desmond Haynes 1989 / 90 † England West Indies 0 0 1990 / 1 Pakistan Pakistan Total 22 Richie Richardson 1991 / 2 South Africa West Indies 0 0 1992 / 3 Australia Australia 5 1992 / 3 Pakistan West Indies 0 1993 / 4 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 0 1993 / 4 England West Indies 0 1994 / 5 Australia West Indies 1995 England England 6 Total 24 11 6 7 23 Courtney Walsh 1993 / 4 † England West Indies 0 0 1994 / 5 India India 1994 / 5 New Zealand New Zealand 0 1995 / 6 New Zealand West Indies 0 1996 / 7 Australia Australia 5 0 1996 / 7 India West Indies 0 0 1996 / 7 Sri Lanka West Indies 0 1997 / 8 Pakistan Pakistan 0 0 Total 22 6 7 9 24 Brian Lara 1996 / 7 † India West Indies 0 0 1997 / 8 England West Indies 6 1998 / 9 South Africa South Africa 5 0 5 0 1998 / 9 Australia West Indies 0 1999 / 2000 New Zealand New Zealand 0 0 2002 / 3 Australia West Indies 0 2003 Sri Lanka West Indies 0 2003 / 4 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 0 2003 / 4 South Africa South Africa 0 2003 / 4 England West Indies 0 Bangladesh West Indies 0 England England 0 0 2006 India West Indies 0 2006 / 7 Pakistan Pakistan 0 Total 47 10 26 11 25 Jimmy Adams 1999 / 2000 Zimbabwe West Indies 0 0 1999 / 2000 Pakistan West Indies 0 2000 England England 5 2000 / 1 Australia Australia 5 0 5 0 Total 15 8 26 Carl Hooper 2000 / 1 South Africa West Indies 5 2001 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 0 2001 / 2 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 0 2001 / 2 Pakistan Sharjah 0 0 2001 / 2 India West Indies 5 2002 New Zealand West Indies 0 2002 / 3 India India 0 Total 22 11 7 27 Ridley Jacobs 2002 / 3 Bangladesh Bangladesh 0 0 28 Shivnarine Chanderpaul 2004 / 5 South Africa West Indies 0 2004 / 5 Pakistan West Indies 0 2005 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 0 2005 / 6 Australia Australia 0 0 2005 / 6 New Zealand New Zealand 0 Total 14 10 29 Ramnaresh Sarwan 2007 England England 0 2008 Australia West Indies 0 Total 0 30 Daren Ganga 2007 † England England 0 0 31 Chris Gayle 2007 / 8 South Africa South Africa 0 2007 / 8 Sri Lanka West Indies 0 2008 † Australia West Indies 0 0 2008 / 09 New Zealand New Zealand 0 0 2008 / 09 England West Indies 5 0 2009 England England 0 0 2009 / 10 Australia Australia 0 South Africa West Indies 0 Total 20 9 8 32 Dwayne Bravo 2007 / 8 † South Africa South Africa 0 0 33 Floyd Reifer 2009 Bangladesh West Indies 0 0 34 Darren Sammy 2010 / 11 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 0 2011 Pakistan West Indies 0 2011 India West Indies 0 2011 Bangladesh Bangladesh 0 2011 India India 0 2011 / 12 Australia West Indies 0 2012 England England 0 2012 New Zealand West Indies 0 0 2012 / 13 Bangladesh Bangladesh 0 0 2012 / 13 Zimbabwe West Indies 0 0 2013 / 14 India India 0 0 2013 / 14 New Zealand New Zealand 0 Total 30 8 12 10 35 Denesh Ramdin 2014 New Zealand West Indies 0 2014 Bangladesh West Indies 0 0 2014 / 15 South Africa South Africa 0 2014 / 15 England West Indies 2015 Australia West Indies 0 0 Total 13 7 36 Jason Holder 2015 / 16 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 0 0 2015 / 16 Australia Australia 0 2016 India West Indies 0 2016 Pakistan UAE 0 2016 / 17 Pakistan West Indies 0 2017 England England 0 2017 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 0 2017 / 18 New Zealand New Zealand 0 0 2018 Sri Lanka West Indies 2018 Bangladesh West Indies 0 0 Total 25 6 14 5 37 Kraigg Brathwaite 2017 / 18 New Zealand New Zealand 0 0 Grand total 535 171 189 176
whi was the first captain of indian cricket team
Karl Nunes