[1] A Test match is scheduled to take place over a period of five days,[a][b] and is played by teams representing full member nations of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
As of July 2023[update], West Indies played 573 Test matches resulting in 182 victories, 209 defeats, 181 draws and 1 tie for an overall winning percentage of 31.76.
[7] The highest innings total scored in Test cricket came in the series between Sri Lanka and India in August 1997.
This broke the longstanding record of 7/903d which England set against Australia in the final Test of the 1938 Ashes series at The Oval.
[33] A tie can occur when the scores of both teams are equal at the conclusion of play, provided that the side batting last has completed their innings.
Brian Lara and Shivnarine Chanderpaul are the only two West Indian batsmen who have scored more than 10,000 runs in Test cricket.
[35] The first Test of the 2003–04 series of the Southern Cross Trophy, contested between Australia and Zimbabwe, at the WACA Ground saw Matthew Hayden of Australia set the highest Test score with 380, surpassing the West Indies' Brian Lara's 375 scored against England in April 1994 at the Antigua Recreation Ground.
Bradman holds the Test record for the most double centuries scored with twelve, one ahead of Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara who finished his career with eleven.
England's Wally Hammond and Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka both scored seven and Kohli is one of seven cricketers who reached the mark on six occasions.
Lara and Gayle hold the equal Test record for the most triple centuries scored with two, along with Australia's Don Bradman and India's Virender Sehwag.
[132] There have been two occasions in Test cricket where a bowler has taken all ten wickets in a single innings – Jim Laker of England took 10/53 against Australia in 1956 and India's Anil Kumble in 1999 returned figures of 10/74 against Pakistan.
Michael Holding's figures of 14/149, taken during the fifth match of the West Indies tour of England in 1976, is the 19th-best in Test cricket history.
Nineteenth century English medium pacer George Lohmann holds the record for the best career average in Test cricket with 10.75.
[105] English bowler William Attewell, who played 10 matches for England between 1884 and 1892, holds the Test record for the best career economy rate with 1.31.
[154] Malcolm Marshall, Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh are joint-17th on the list of most five-wicket hauls in Test cricket.
The wicket-keeper is a specialist fielder who stands behind the stumps being guarded by the batsman on strike and is the only member of the fielding side allowed to wear gloves and leg pads.
[175] West Indies's Jeff Dujon is seventh in taking most dismissals in Test cricket as a designated wicket-keeper.
[178] Bert Oldfield, Australia's fifth-most capped wicket-keeper, holds the record for the most stumpings in Test cricket with 52.
[180] Four wicket-keepers have taken seven dismissals in a single innings in a Test match—Wasim Bari of Pakistan in 1979, Englishman Bob Taylor in 1980, New Zealand's Ian Smith in 1991 and most recently West Indiesn gloveman Ridley Jacobs against Australia in 2000.
[182] Three wicket-keepers have made 11 dismissals in a Test match, Englishman Jack Russell in 1995, South African AB de Villiers in 2013 and most recently India's Rishabh Pant against Australia in 2018.
[185] David Murray, Courtney Browne and Ridley Jacobs have made nine dismissals in a match, the most among West Indian wicket keepers.
[190][191] India's Rahul Dravid holds the record for the most catches in Test cricket by a non-wicket-keeper with 209, followed by Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka on 205 and South African Jacques Kallis with 200.
Brian Lara is the highest ranked West Indian in ninth, securing 164 catches in his Test career.
[195] Greg Chappell, a fellow Australian all-rounder, and India's K. L. Rahul are equal second behind Gregory with 14 catches taken during the 1974–75 Ashes series and during the 2018 Indian tour of England respectively.
Four players have taken 13 catches in a series on six occasions with both Bob Simpson and Brian Lara having done so twice and Rahul Dravid and Alastair Cook once.
[200] India's Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the most Test matches played with 200, with former captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul being joint fifth having represented West Indies on 164 occasions.
[204] gary Sobers, widely considered to be cricket's greatest ever all-rounder, played 85 consecutive Test matches, is 12th and the highest ranked West Indies player to achieve the feat.
[205] Graeme Smith, who led the South African cricket team from 2003 to 2014, holds the record for the most matches played as captain in Test cricket with 109.Clive Lloyd captained the West Indies between 1974 and 1985 and oversaw their rise to become the dominant Test-playing nation, a position that was only relinquished in the latter half of the 1990s is fifth on the list with 60 matches.
West Indies' Conrad Hunte and Garfield Sobers hold the seventh highest Test partnership with 446 made in 1958 against Pakistan.
The current active Dar set the record in December 2019 overtaking Steve Bucknor from the West Indies mark of 128 matches.