This is a list of all men, boys and women who have captained the West Indies cricket team at official international level in at least one match.
In the mid-1980s there were two rebel West Indian tours to South Africa, which was at that time banned from official competition because of the apartheid régime then in force there.
[2] In a return tour by the United States in 1888, the combined West Indian team was captained by Edward Wright.
The West Indies also toured England in 1900, 1906 and 1923 with the opposition usually being various English first-class and minor county sides.
Other opposition during these tours included amateur sides, the MCC, an England XI (once) and Scotland and Ireland (once each).
During this time (1897 to 1926) the various West Indies captains were Aucher Warner, Stanley Sproston (non-first-class matches only), Harold Austin, Clement King, Alfred Harrigan, Edwin Moulder, William Sherlock, Percy Tarilton, Malcolm Austin and Karl Nunes This is a list of cricketers who have captained the West Indian cricket team for at least one Test match.
A similar situation also arose with the proposed South African tour of Australia that was due to take place in 1971/2, when the Rest of the World team also played two one-day matches.
The rebel West Indian squad played a series of Tests and ODIs, none of which have official status.
The table of results is complete to the third and final match for the team in the 2024–2025 Bangladeshi women's tour of the West Indies.
In one-day internationals the West Indies' most successful captain is Clive Lloyd, who won 64 of his 84 matches.
The successes of the senior men's team in international tournaments was never replicated at the youth level until the 2016 U-19 Cricket World Cup when Shimron Hetmyer lead the West Indies Under-19 team to their first ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup title.
It was also only the second time (after Australia in 2010) that men's and women's teams from the same country have reached the final in the same year of the ICC's premier Twenty20 tournaments.
Their previous best result had been under Stephanie Power when she led the West Indies to second place in the 2003 IWCC Trophy.
Aguilleira is also the most successful West Indies women's captain in one-day internationals, winning 32 of 55 matches.