# West Indian cricket team in India in 1994–95

The West Indies national cricket team visited India in 1994 for a 5-match ODI series and followed by a 3-match test series. India won the ODI series 4-1 and the test series was drawn 1-1.
The bilateral ODI series was played around the Wills world series 1994-95, a triangular ODI tournament featuring India, West Indies and New Zealand, and also won by India. The triangular ODI tournament was played in colour clothing while the bilateral series was played in whites.

## Squads

| India | India | West Indies | West Indies |
| Tests | ODIs | Tests | ODIs |
| Mohammed Azharuddin (c) Sachin Tendulkar Anil Kumble Navjot Singh Sidhu Javagal Srinath Vinod Kambli Manoj Prabhakar Nayan Mongia (wk) Sanjay Manjrekar Venkatapathy Raju Rajesh Chauhan Aashish Kapoor | Mohammed Azharuddin (c) Sachin Tendulkar Anil Kumble Navjot Singh Sidhu Javagal Srinath Vinod Kambli Manoj Prabhakar Nayan Mongia (wk) Sanjay Manjrekar Venkatapathy Raju Rajesh Chauhan Atul Bedade Kapil Dev Venkatesh Prasad Ajay Jadeja Chetan Sharma | Courtney Walsh (c) Brian Lara Shivnarine Chanderpaul Carl Hooper Jimmy Adams Phil Simmons Stuart Williams Keith Arthurton Cameron Cuffy Junior Murray (wk) Rajindra Dhanraj Kenny Benjamin Anderson Cummons | Courtney Walsh (c) Brian Lara Shivnarine Chanderpaul Carl Hooper Jimmy Adams Phil Simmons Stuart Williams Keith Arthurton Cameron Cuffy Junior Murray (wk) Rajindra Dhanraj Kenny Benjamin Anderson Cummons Barrington Browne Roland Holder |

## ODI Series
### 1st ODI

* 17 October
| West Indies 273-5 (50 overs) | v | India 177 (45 overs) |
| Phil Simmons 76 (100) Javagal Srinath 3/42 (10 overs) | | Navjot Singh Sidhu 52 (87) Courtney Walsh 2/11 (5 overs) |
* West Indies won by 96 runs Nahar Singh Stadium, Faridabad, India Umpires: S. K. Sharma (India) and Ivaturi Shivram (India) Player of the match: Phil Simmons (West Indies)
* West Indies won the toss and chose to bat
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Cameron Cuffy and Stuart Williams made their ODI debuts for the West Indies.
Kapil Dev's last ODI for India.

### 2nd ODI

* 20 October
| West Indies 192-9 (50 overs) | v | India 135-4 (33.1 overs) |
| Carl Hooper 70 (86) Javagal Srinath 3/34 (10 overs) | | Navjot Singh Sidhu 65 (102) Cameron Cuffy 2/29 (8.1 overs) |
* India won by 8 runs (Revised target) Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, India Umpires: Narendra Menon (India) and R. T. Ramachandran (India) Player of the match: Navjot Singh Sidhu (India)
* India won the toss and chose to field
Barrington Browne made his ODI debut for the West Indies.

### 3rd ODI

* 7 November
| India 260-4 (44 overs) | v | West Indies 256-7 (43 overs) |
| Navjot Singh Sidhu 114 (100) Courtney Walsh 1/50 (9 overs) | | Carl Hooper 74 (47) Anil Kumble 2/41 (7 overs) |
* India won by 4 runs Indira Priyadarshini Stadium, Visakhapatnam, India Umpires: H. S. Sekhon (India) and Raman Sharma (India) Player of the match: Navjot Singh Sidhu (India)
* West Indies won the toss and chose to field

### 4th ODI

* 9 November
| West Indies 251-9 (50 overs) | v | India 256-2 (49.2 overs) |
| Brian Lara 89 (106) Anil Kumble 3/43 (10 overs) | | Ajay Jadeja 104 (126) Courtney Walsh 1/29 (10 overs) |
* India won by 8 wickets Barabati Stadium, Cuttack, India Umpires: Arani Jayaprakash (India) and Jose Kurushinkal (India) Player of the match: Ajay Jadeja (India)
* West Indies won the toss and chose to bat
* Ajay Jadeja (Ind) scored his first century in ODIs.

### 5th ODI

* 11 November
| India 259-5 (50 overs) | v | West Indies 254 (49 overs) |
| Sachin Tendulkar 105 (134) Anderson Cummins 2/49 (10 overs) | | Carl Hooper 84 (88) Venkatapathy Raju 4/46 (9 overs) |
* India won by 5 runs Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur, India Umpires: S. Choudhary (India) and Subroto Porel (India) Player of the match: Carl Hooper (West Indies)
* India won the toss and chose to bat
Brian Lara was the captain of the West Indies instead of Courtney Walsh, who was rested.

## Test Series
### 1st Test

* 18-22 November 1994
* India won by 96 runs Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Dickie Bird (Eng) and Shyam Bansal (Ind) Player of the match: Javagal Srinath (Ind)
* India won the toss and elected to bat.
** Cameron Cuffy and Rajindra Dhanraj made their test debuts for the West Indies.

### 2nd Test

* 1-5 December 1994
* Match drawn Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur Umpires: Nigel Plews (Eng) and V. K. Ramaswamy (Ind) Player of the match: Carl Hooper (West Indies)
* India won the toss and elected to bat.

### 3rd Test

* 10-14 December 1994
* West Indies won by 243 runs Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali Umpires: Steve Dunne (New Zealand) and Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (Ind) Player of the match: Jimmy Adams (West Indies)
* West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
* Aashish Kapoor made his test debut for India.
* Manoj Prabhakar was retired hurt in India's second innings and did not bat again.