West Indies women's cricket team
| Nickname | Windies | |||||||||
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| Association | Cricket West Indies | |||||||||
| Personnel | ||||||||||
| Captain | Hayley Matthews | |||||||||
| Coach | Shane Deitz | |||||||||
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| ICC status | Full member (1926) | |||||||||
| ICC region | Americas | |||||||||
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| Tests | ||||||||||
| First Test | v Australia at Jarrett Park, Montego Bay; 7–9 May 1976 | |||||||||
| Last Test | v Pakistan at the National Stadium, Karachi; 15–18 March 2004 | |||||||||
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| One Day Internationals | ||||||||||
| First ODI | v England at Lensbury Sports Ground, London; 6 June 1979 | |||||||||
| Last ODI | v Sri Lanka at National Cricket Stadium, St. George's; 25 February 2026 | |||||||||
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| World Cup appearances | 6 (first in 1993) | |||||||||
| Best result | Runners-up (2013) | |||||||||
| Women's World Cup Qualifier appearances | 2 (first in 2003) | |||||||||
| Best result | Champions (2011) | |||||||||
| T20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| First T20I | v Ireland at Kenure, Dublin; 27 June 2008 | |||||||||
| Last T20I | v Sri Lanka at National Cricket Stadium, St. George's; 3 March 2026 | |||||||||
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| T20 World Cup appearances | 8 (first in 2009) | |||||||||
| Best result | Champions (2016) | |||||||||
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| As of 3 March 2026 | ||||||||||
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 that once formed the British West Indies.
On 25 May 1973, the Caribbean Women’s Cricket Federation (CWCF) was founded, with Monica Taylor as the first president and Jean Carmino as General Secretary. Later in the same year, at the inaugural edition of the World Cup, two teams that now compete as part of the West Indies, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, competed separately.
A combined West Indian women's team made its Test debut in 1976 (almost 50 years after its male counterpart), and its One Day International (ODI) in 1979.
In 1998, the CWCF changed its name to the West Indies Women’s Cricket Federation (WIWCF). On 16 January 2004, representatives of the WIWCF met with the president of the West Indies Cricket Board and agreed to a merger between the two organisations.
In 2005, the International Women's Cricket Council (IWCC), which had been the global governing body of women's cricket since 1958, merged with the ICC to form one unified body for men's and women's cricket. This saw West Indies women formally become a member of the ICC.
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 2013 World Cup, the team made the tournament's final for the first time, but lost to Australia. The Windies Women later reached the semifinals of the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup.
At the ICC World Twenty20, the side only got to the semi-finals in the 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018 editions of the competition. As well the Windies Women eventually won their first title at the 2016 ICC Women's World Twenty20.